Forensics Night

Forensics Night is and opportunity for the kids to have fun and show off a bit all of the hard work they have put in all semester. Friends and family come to watch, there are no scholarships or trophies on the line, and other than extemp. and impromptu no one is keeping time. It is a bitter sweet moment for the seniors because it is their last time to perform as high school students. It is always bitter sweet for me as well.

The hosts with the most, kick off the evening.

Oratory

Perseverance
Declarative

I Have A Dream- Martin Luther King

Children's Storytelling

Daisy Head Maisey

Impromptu Speaking

In this category the speaker has to give an educated opinion on an article they have never seen. They have six minutes from the time their eyes hit the page to read, prepare, and present their speech. The speakers who win use about forty five seconds or less to prep. They know the general topic. Each year there are three topics- this year they were: The election, education and technology, and China. This editorial is asking "Should China amend their one child policy in light of the recent earth quake?"

For fun this young lady also did a goofy impromptu chosen by one o our hosts from The Onion. " Isn't it suspicious that Mylie Syrus and Hanna Montana are never in the same place?"

She was a state finalist this year

Poetry

Bubble Trouble

Children's Storytelling

Green Eggs And Ham

The host's demonstrate blocking for the audience with some help from a team mate

Children's Storytelling

Green Eggs and Ham- again
Extemporaneous Speaking

In this event the speaker draws a question and then has thirty minutes to prepare a seven minute speech- with source material.

This question- " Are Disney classic animated movies good family entertainment?"

This amazing young lady also does DI and was a state finals debater. Oh yeah there was that second place scholarship for Knights of the Round Table

She is graduating and will be greatly missed

Duo

Memoirs Of A Geisha

My special "wizard-ess gingerbread cookie"

Poetry

Totally Revolting Rhymes- Little Red Ridding Hood and The Three Little Pigs
This young man was a state finalist last year

Children's Storytelling

The Three Little Wolves And The Big Bad Pig

This young lady is a two time state finals qualifier, a state finals debater, and over all scholarship winner. She is also graduating and will be sorely missed.

Prose

Rescuing Patty Hurst- Memoir Of A Decade Gone Mad
She was a regional finalist and a state finalist last year

Dramatic Interpretation (DI)

Steel Magnolias

This young lady was a state finalist last year

Multiple

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change

This is a revision from last year. This piece qualified to state finals.

We didn't have a Forensics Night because I was having a baby- early.

Caelun was born the week between regionals and states.

He was timed to be after state finals - so much for planning.