The speech and debate team began their season with many students placing at the Baltimore Catholic League Competition. Under the leadership of Mr. Brian Shouse and Ms. Emily Mandile, members competed in Lincoln-Douglas (LD) debates at the Varsity and Junior levels, Public Forum at the Varsity and Junior Varsity levels, and Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Affectionately called \u201cSpeechies\u201d by their teammates, speech members competed in Children\u2019s Literature, Impromptu, Extemporaneous Speaking, Original Oratory, Poetry and Prose, and Declamation. Former Reservoir students also participated in dramatic and duo performances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A range of events and competitions take place monthly from September to March, leading to a more extensive national competition. Almost every day of the week, speech and debate team members practiced in the media center after school. Debate events met on Monday and Wednesday, Speech on Tuesday and Thursday, and the whole team meetings on Friday before Saturday meets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Debate members researched cases and prepared arguments for both sides of their debates. The LD debate focused on approaching the topic from a philosophical perspective. This Public Forum examined current events focusing on an assigned topic. Congress planned speeches for a list of bills likely to be presented during the session while being coached virtually with Reservoir alums and former William Woods Tate, Jr. 2022 National Student of the Year, Arjun Banerjee. Each speech event had a prescribed method of practice based on established rules. Speech coach Ms. Mandile oversaw rehearsal and provided feedback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Saturday February 11, the team competed in the final regular season tournament at Towson High School. Shout outs to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr. Shouse said, “Those who did not medal still excelled\u2014there were a lot of just-off-the-podium finishes! This was a really fabulous showing; we ended the regular season on a high note. We will now be shifting our focus to States and Nationals! I also want to shout-out team alumni\u00a0Ryleigh Griffen\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Kristin Perry<\/em>\u00a0and the parents of current team members for helping out at the tournament to make this success possible!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Earlier in the school year, the team competed at Arundel High School for The Baltimore Catholic Forensic League\u2019s third meet. Twenty-one students attended, eight in the Varsity LD, three in JV LD, six in Congress, two in Varsity Public Forum and two in JV Public Forum, four speech participants, two in Impromptu, one in Exempt, and two in Children\u2019s Literature. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Neil is known for his witty Children\u2019s Literature performance of \u201cThe True Story of the Big Bad Wolf\u201d and \u201cThe Three Little Pigs.\u201d Neil said, \u201cThe team is like a family. We all have fun with each other. I Founding member and current head team coach, Mr. Shouse shared the goal of seeking out students who may have yet to find the right club, organization, or sport and are looking for a place to engage in fun and demanding competition. As competitions continue to practice their skills, RHS is sure to see more success coming to our Speech and Debate Team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyone interested should attend an upcoming meeting and speak to Mr. Shouse or Ms. Mandile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The speech and debate team began their season with many students placing at the Baltimore…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/gatorgazette.rhsgators.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/speech-and-debate.jpg",524,307,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/gatorgazette.rhsgators.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/speech-and-debate-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/gatorgazette.rhsgators.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/speech-and-debate-300x176.jpg",300,176,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/gatorgazette.rhsgators.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/speech-and-debate.jpg",524,307,false],"large":["https:\/\/gatorgazette.rhsgators.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/speech-and-debate.jpg",524,307,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/gatorgazette.rhsgators.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/speech-and-debate.jpg",524,307,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/gatorgazette.rhsgators.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/speech-and-debate.jpg",524,307,false],"newsever-slider-full":["https:\/\/gatorgazette.rhsgators.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/speech-and-debate.jpg",524,307,false],"newsever-featured":["https:\/\/gatorgazette.rhsgators.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/speech-and-debate.jpg",524,307,false],"newsever-medium":["https:\/\/gatorgazette.rhsgators.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/speech-and-debate.jpg",524,307,false]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatorgazette.rhsgators.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatorgazette.rhsgators.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatorgazette.rhsgators.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatorgazette.rhsgators.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatorgazette.rhsgators.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gatorgazette.rhsgators.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1379,"href":"https:\/\/gatorgazette.rhsgators.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions\/1379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatorgazette.rhsgators.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatorgazette.rhsgators.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatorgazette.rhsgators.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatorgazette.rhsgators.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
originally joined because I had a friend on the team, and now I have made more.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n