Posted in Debate
Ok, first off, I don’t think I’ve posted on this before, but this year I joined a speech and debate club in the NCFCA. Don’t ask me what that stands for, It’s National Homeschool Christian Forensics something or other, I’m not awake enough now to remember it. But it doesn’t have an H, though it is homeschooling.... Oh well.
So to my point- It has been really neat! And it’s taken alot more time than I thought...So here I’ll elaborate:
No doubt some of you reading are in NCFCA, but for those who aren’t, I’ll explain. It is split into two parts, Speech and Debate. There are several times of speeches-
Original Oratory- Basically about anything.
Persuasive- well, persuasive...
Expository- Teaching about anything with boards and props.
Extemporaneous- Limited Preparation speech on current events
Humorous Interpretation- A piece from a book that is acted out, yet in speech form...Oh,
And it’s funny, too.
Duo interp.- Interp, with two people
Dramatic interp- You get it by now...
Open interp- Open, anything...
Thematic- quotes and pieces of anything strung together with a theme
OK, so THAT was boring, right? OK, well now I’m going to bore you more with Debate- There are two types- Team policy, which is a team of two using evidence to support the yearly resolution by giving a plan. For example, this year’s resolution is NATO should be significantly reformed or abolished. So everyone has their plan on how to implement that and the Affirmative team and Negative give a lot of speeches on why the plan should(n’t) be implemented. OK, still boring, right? Well, never fear, there is only one more-Lincoln Douglas style debate. That is one on one, with logic more than evidence. It’s a values debate, so the resolution is: Democracy is overvalued By the US government.
So now that I’ve sufficiently bored you, You know about one of the favorite aspects of my life, which I hope to post on more( Well if I made a category for it....)
