2023 Fall Live Online Class

• Public Speech I (Grade 1-3) - In person only

  09/13 to 12/06  12 Classes Wednesday 5:00pm-6:00pm $255/term No class on Nov. 22Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 7

  Course Description

  This class is all about building confidence. Your child will learn to confidently discuss opinions and describe the world around them. 

  Participants build their confidence speaking in front of others and completing speech-skill achievements. Your child will give impromptu speeches and planned speeches. He or she will also learn how to critique the speeches of others in a helpful and positive manner. Participants are also encouraged to take active roles such as comedian, timer, and canvasser.

  
  
  

• Public Speech II (Grade 3-5) - In person only

  09/15 to 12/08  12 Classes Friday 5:00pm-6:00pm $255/term No class on Nov. 24Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 290 Conference Room

  Course Description

  Speech: Participants build their confidence speaking in front of others and completing skill achievements.

  Students will write a prepared speech with guidance from the instructor. Students have the freedom to pick any topic for their prepared speech as long as it falls within the category decided by the instructor. The categories include informative, persuasive, storytelling, and demonstrative. 

  Students will also learn how to critique the speeches of others in a helpful and positive manner. Roles include timer, listener, librarian, counter, comedian, and recorder.

  Debate: This class will integrate a portion of debate in it. Debate is a valuable activity for students of all skill levels.  Debate teaches useful skills for other academic pursuits and life more generally.   Most obviously, debaters build confidence speaking in public and expressing their ideas eloquently. 

  Instructor: Adley Robbins
  
  

• Public Speech/Debate III - Grade 5-7 - In-person

  09/22 to 12/15  12 Classes Friday 6:00pm-7:30pm $375/term No class on Nov. 24Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 290 Conference Room

  Course Description

  Course Description: This is the third course of Speech/Debate series. While this course continues to help students build up the Speech confidence and skills, it focuses more on Debate.

  Below are the sample topics to cover in the class. Topics may vary in different terms.

  Unit 1: Introduction to Debate
  1. Introduce students to some basic concepts and terms. 
  2. Involve students in an informal debate.

  Unit 2: Expanding on the concept of debate 
  1. Observe a live or videotaped debate. 
  2. Take part in an informal debate.

  Unit 3: Affirmative Structure
  1. Gain an understanding of the Affirmative philosophy.
  2. Examine the speech of the first Affirmative.

  Unit 4: Overview of Negative Strategy
  1. Understand negative strategy. 
  2. understand the job of the first Negative speaker

  Unit 5: Overview of Debate
  1. Second Affirmative Constructive Speech 
  2. Second Negative Constructive Speech
  3. The Break 
  4. Rebuttal by First Negative 
  5. Rebuttal by First Affirmative

  Unit 6: The Great debate (Discussion, Preparation, Presentation)

  Provide students an opportunity to prepare and debate in a formal style.

  Debate is an excellent way to develop critical thinking skills. The process of researching a debate is one of examining the pros and cons of an issue, determining what the problems are and considering alternative solutions. The research and presentation of a debate is clearly a team effort, and participation in activities like debate explicitly develops the skills needed to work in teams.

  Instructor: Adley Robbins
  
  

2023 Summer Live Online Class

• Speech and Debate for Grade 6-8

  06/28 to 08/23  8 Classes Wednesday 4:00pm-5:30pm $255/term No class on July 05Location: Online11

  Course Description

  Course Description: This is the second course of Speech/Debate series. While this course continues to help students build up the Speech confidence and skills, it focuses more on Debate.

  Below are the sample topics to cover in the class. Topics may vary in different terms.

  Unit 1: Introduction to Debate
  1. Introduce students to some basic concepts and terms. 
  2. Involve students in an informal debate.

  Unit 2: Expanding on the concept of debate 
  1. Observe a live or videotaped debate. 
  2. Take part in an informal debate.

  Unit 3: Affirmative Structure
  1. Gain an understanding of the Affirmative philosophy.
  2. Examine the speech of the first Affirmative.

  Unit 4: Overview of Negative Strategy
  1. Understand negative strategy. 
  2. understand the job of the first Negative speaker

  Unit 5: Overview of Debate
  1. Second Affirmative Constructive Speech 
  2. Second Negative Constructive Speech
  3. The Break 
  4. Rebuttal by First Negative 
  5. Rebuttal by First Affirmative

  Unit 6: The Great debate (Discussion, Preparation, Presentation)

  Provide students an opportunity to prepare and debate in a formal style.

  Debate is an excellent way to develop critical thinking skills. The process of researching a debate is one of examining the pros and cons of an issue, determining what the problems are and considering alternative solutions. The research and presentation of a debate is clearly a team effort, and participation in activities like debate explicitly develops the skills needed to work in teams.

  Instructor: Ta-Leah Smithers
  
  

2023 Summer In-person Camp

Note: Half-day camps can be combined as full-day camps from 8:30am-5pm.

• Week 7 (08/14-08/18)

  Public Speech Camp 2 - Grade 1-3

  08/14 to 08/18  5 half day Monday-Friday 1:00pm-4:00pm $250/camp Location: 15320 NW Central Dr. Ste D6 Room 3

  Course Description

  This is the 1st out of 2 Speech camps for Grade k-3. The camp is limited to 10 students.

  This camp is all about building confidence. Your child will learn to confidently discuss opinions and describe the world around them. Participants will get a head start speaking in front of others.

  We will introuduce the basic speech skills such as eye contacts or voice etc and practice those skills in the camp via different topics.  

  Instructor: Adley Robbins
  
  

• Week 8 (08/21-08/25)

  Public Speech/Debate Camp - Grade 4-7

  08/21 to 08/25  5 half day Monday-Friday 1:00pm-4:00pm $250/camp Location: 15320 NW Central Dr. Ste D6 Room 1

  Course Description

  Public Speech/Debate Camp

  This camp focuses on public speech and oral communication. Students will build up confidence and learn communication skills in the camp. We will go through following 5 units

  Unit 1: Introduction to Speech
  Students will learn essential speech techniques that they will be developing over the course of the class. They will learn the process of writing and prepare a speech and set goals for their learning.

  Unit 2: Informative 
  Students will learn the value of and ways to speak informatively through analyzation and practice. Students will be able to work through the process of collecting information through research and sharing that information in a logical and organized way, using effective public speaking skills.

  Unit 3: Persuade 
  Students will learn the value of and techniques to speak persuasively. They will be able to determine the difference between fact and opinion based argument, and effectively persuade an identified audience using sound reasoning and relevant evidence.

  Unit 4: Entertain 
  Students will learn the value of and ways to speak to entertain a specific audience, practising with both ideas of their own and others’. Students will work through the process of developing a speech to inform and presenting with appropriate tone and body language for the audience and purpose.

  Unit 5: Introduction to Debate
  Students will be able to understand opposing viewpoints then choose and defend one viewpoint or the other, using logical reasoning and relevant evidence in the appropriate debate format.

  Instructor: Adley Robbins