Public Speaking

& Debate

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Course Overview

This semester elective is designed to do many things. As illustrated by its title, the focus is on two significant skills: public speaking and debate. However, the class is really much more than that. It’s about researching, listening, team work, and just pure intelligent thinking and reasoning. The break of the course will follow thus:

Unit 1: Public Speaking

  • Including confidence, preparation, and delivery

Unit 2: Debate

  • Including adaptation, audience, ethics and competitiveness, and careers.


There will be a wide variety of issues and topics that will require that you keep up to date on current events and research. It requires a mannered, willing, and mature person to succeed in these goals.

I believe this will be an exciting and fulfilling term. Along with providing a sound year of solid instruction, I also want to do my part in best preparing you for the next steps of your lives whether it be in college or otherwise. Therefore a lot of focus will not be just on how you can utilize these skills today, but in the future and in your careers.