1. Flowing. Eliana taught about the importance of flowing and how it is a growing skill. Just start the best you can and your skill will grow. The idea is simply getting ideas down what the other team says so that you can remember to address them in your speech. We showed the following video on flowing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf6HBKgkSAM
2. Delivery. We discussed the importance of growing your delivery skills, because without them your message can be lost. We watched the following video on delivery skills: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FnrlpVKLMzSVx8-DXS-WeaKT033u7Ce9/view
3. Impromptu activity. The students then broke into groups and gave impromptu speeches practicing their delivery skills. This is something that you can do as a family. Google search idioms, character traits, conversation starters, or just use Apples to Apples cards or Taboo cards and each family member can take turns choosing a topic, having about 1 minute of time to prepare, and then give a 2-4 minute speech to the family.
4. Resolutional analysis. I am sharing Josiah’s notes that he used for this session because it would take too long for me to type. They are just his quick notes/outline for his session, so it is not intented to read like a textbook or paper and please do not stress about your chlld knowing this information. It will come in time. It was just to give an overview and to familiarize them with the topic. HIs notes are on this link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Wa20OFG3pA19xCJq81RDeGxeVHM2TyGt50rnhcJttaw/edit
4. Announcements:
Sourcebook: We are still in the process of trying to find one. I will send you a link when I find one to purchase. None have been completed yet. Update: We will be using the Lasting Impact Sourcebook, which can be found here: https://lastingimpact.info/product/sourcebook23031/
T-shirts: Contact Melissa Brindis de Salas if you want more information about t-shirts. lehuabds6@gmail.com
Partners: Please let me know as soon as you know who your child will be partnering with. No worries if you have no idea yet. This is just for those that do already know or when it gets figured out.
Debate at the next meeting: We are hoping to debate at our next club meeting. I will send out the case as soon as we have one to debate. Experienced students are being assigned to partner with new students for our first debate. All of that information will come out on postings as soon as I finalize everyone that is planning on being at that club meeting.
New club website: We are excited to announce a new club website! It is private so you have to make an account to be able to get onto the website to see all of the pertinent information. For example all of the debate postings, judge schedule, and snack schedule will be posted to the website. We are hoping to eventually have a club directory on their as well. The web address is christosapologiaofchs.com
Parents: We had some judge training through watching an NCFCA judge orientation video as well as a session with Jenni Hester with more information on judging. Thanks JennI! The current season’s NCFCA judge orientation video has not been released yet. So this one that we watched is from last year. The main difference is that it mentions last year’s resolution and not this year’s, and the way judges request evidence to look at after the round, has changed. The link to the judge training video from last year that we watched at club is: https://vimeo.com/888840483