Categories

If you open the PDF linked below and scroll down to page 33, you will find an alphabetical list of the category rules. Hard copies are available from Mrs. Cicero. Also, please note that currently, the rules have not been updated for 2012-13. Please see the tab for Annual Topics&Changes for this year's rule changes.

** Forensics Categories – WFCA ** **__ Speech Writing Categories __**


 * Demonstration – ** You demonstrate how to do something or how something works. For example, you could demonstrate a particular dance, yoga, how to cook a meal, perform CPR, make a craft, build an engine, etc. The more impressive your talent is the better, but something as simple as how to wrap a present can be amazing if you write a great speech.


 * Four Minute – ** Informative in nature, this speech must be about a //very// interesting topic.


 * Moments in History – ** This year’s era is1901-1913, so you would select a historical topic (person, event, trend, etc.) and write a six-minute long informative speech about that topic. You can use a visual aid, display.

A. Book Talk: You are to present a book talk on at least two books for younger students to the local book club or local library board for a summer reading program. B. Sibling’s Wedding: You are to speak at your sibling's wedding. C. Foreign Exchange Student Experience: You are to present a speech at a local organization about your recent experience as a foreign exchange student. D. School Board Policy: You are to address your local school board concerning a school policy students want changed.
 * Special Occasion – ** You present a six minute long, memorized speech for one of this year’s occasions:


 * Public Address **** – ** You present an eight minute long, memorized, persuasive speech on on of this season’s topics, which include: **(A)** Sports Related Head Injuries**; (B)** Political Partisanship**; (C)** Great Lakes**; (D)** The Draft**.**


 * Extemporaneous – ** At the meet, you write and perform a speech that provides a direct response to the question you draw. The challenge to the speaker is to phrase a clear proposition and support it with contentions, which in turn, are supported with evidence and reasoning. Questions will be based on current events, so students in this category need to be committed to doing extensive research, to reading, and to discussing what’s going on in the world today with others in the category.


 * Oratory – ** You present a ten minute long, memorized, persuasive speech on the topic of your choice.

**__ Dramatic Categories __**
 * Play Acting – ** Actors present a scene from a play.


 * Duo Interpretation – ** This is a play script for two actors delivered in an audience-focused fashion where they cannot look at each other or touch.


 * Group Interpretation – ** With scripts in hand, students deliver an audience-focused presentation of a piece of literature using individual interpretation mixed with choral reading and choral gestures. Movement cannot involve touch or eye-contact.


 * Solo Serious – ** One actor presents a serious monologue or, in some cases, depicts multiple roles in a dramatic scene.


 * Solo Humorous ** –One actor presents a humorous monologue or, quite often, depicts multiple roles in a comic scene. This is the most competitive category.

**__ Interpretive Categories __** These are //not// acting categories.


 * Poetry – ** You select a poem or a group of poems centering on a specific theme or emotion. With a manuscript of the piece in hand, you present an interpretive oral reading not to exceed eight minutes.


 * Prose – ** You create a selection from prose literature, including short stories, cutting from novels, monologues and soliloquies, essays, or other non-fiction work centering on a specific theme or emotion. With a manuscript of the piece in hand, you present an interpretive oral reading not to exceed eight minutes.


 * Oral Interpretation of Literature – ** You prepare both a prose selection and a poetry selection, each under 10 minutes and perform them in alternate rounds. You cannot do this category unless you have already had a successful season in either poetry or prose.


 * Farrago – ** You select material from a variety of literary genres (poetry, short stories, speeches, essays, drama, novels), which addresses a central specific theme or emotion, and to interpret the material through oral presentation. An original introduction and original transitions unify the presentation.


 * Storytelling – ** You learn to tell five stories. The storyteller chronicles the events in a coherent, unified, clear, and interesting manner. The storyteller may use vocal variation and physical movement from a seated position to suggest different characters and character relationships in order to make the story clearer and more interesting.

A. Story from Greek or Roman Mythology B. Story involving a ghost C. War or Military Story D. Story involving Trickery or Deceit
 * Topic areas for the 2012-13 season are: **


 * Radio – ** Sitting in profile at a desk or table, you present a well-organized, clearly communicated newscast. The judge listens but does not look at you. You receive source material (local & national news stories, a commercial, weather, etc.) from the tournament director when you get to a meet and then put together a newscast for the station you have created. The final presentation is cut and edited with special efforts made to end right at five minutes.

**__ Discussion __**
 * Group Discussion – ** The focus of this category is individual contribution to a discussion as opposed to debate, using John Dewey’s Problem-Solving Sequence in order to promote group achievement. No formal leadership from among the contestants will be designated. Group Discussion is designed to reward cooperation and contribution to the group's productivity. However, it is not expected that individual integrity be sacrificed.

February 9th Natural disasters February 23rd Internet regulations March 2rd Poverty March 9th K-12 Education March 23rd Topic not available