Experienced Competitive Speech and Debate
Evening Classes & One-Week Camps Summer 2024
☻ Online & in-person options available☻
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WEEKLY EVENING CLASSES
Dates: 10 June 2024 - 2 August 2024 *classes will be held once a week every evening for weekly classes Time: Mondays through Fridays 5:30 PM-8:00 PM for weekly classes Available Locations: Cupertino Aborn Fremont Online Price: $595 for online once-a-week classes $795 for in-person once-a-week classes $995 for online twice-a-week classes $1195 for in-person twice-a-week classes Note: No rising 5th or 6th graders in this program. Please sign up for our elementary program instead. |
FULL-DAY CAMPS
Dates: Session 1: 10 June - 14 June 2024 Session 2: 17 June - 21 June 2024 Session 3: 24 June - 28 June 2024 Session 4: 1 July - 6 July 2024 Session 5: 8 July - 12 July 2024 Session 6: 15 July - 19 July 2024 Session 7: 22 July - 26 July 2024 Session 8: 29 July - 2 August 2024 Time: Monday to Friday @8:30 AM - 4:30 PM for one week Available Locations: Online or Fremont Price: $895 for online full day one-week camp $1095 for in-person full day one-week camp $1595 for online full day two-week camp $1895 for in-person full day two-week camp Note: No rising 5th or 6th graders in this program. Please sign up for our elementary program instead. |
EXPERIENCED
Tentative Instructors: TBD
Program Description:
Choose one of our many one week options to work with our coaches on your speech material to get it ready for competition. In debate, please be ready for a skills focused program where students will practice debating and receive detailed feedback to help students improve on their critical thinking/decision making skills in debate. We will have lectures and introductions to new styles of argumentation with students scrimmaging at the end of the camp against their peers. If students are expecting work on the Sept/Oct topic should consider our later sessions.
Speech program will cover:
Debate program will cover:
Students can take two weeks of two different programs (Ex: Interp and PF, Platform and Extemp) but are discouraged from repeating the same without prior consultation with GSA.
Eligibility:
Students who have previously done our competitive program and competed at tournaments.
Students new to the Golden State Academy should expect to submit student's prior work including tournament records and judge feedback to help determine proper placement into the program.
Students with impromptu experience should expect to learn and focus on extemporaneous speaking over the summer program.
Have questions? Attend one of our open houses or contact us at [email protected]
Program Description:
Choose one of our many one week options to work with our coaches on your speech material to get it ready for competition. In debate, please be ready for a skills focused program where students will practice debating and receive detailed feedback to help students improve on their critical thinking/decision making skills in debate. We will have lectures and introductions to new styles of argumentation with students scrimmaging at the end of the camp against their peers. If students are expecting work on the Sept/Oct topic should consider our later sessions.
Speech program will cover:
- Option 1:-Interpretation: Students should expect to have one interpretation piece ready for competition if picking from our library of scripts. Students are encouraged to bring their own literature ready for camp but are not required to do so. Students should be memorized and coached by the end of camp.
- Option 2-Platform: Students should expect to walk away with one completely edited and revised final speech ready for memorization for competition. Due to the nature of the event (choosing topic, brainstorming ideas, research, drafting, revisions, etc), and the variances in enrollment, we cannot ensure students will have a fully memorized speech ready for coaching during camp. As such this program is meant to help students get the writing done in order to get coaching at the start of the competitive season.
- Option 3- Extemporaneous Speaking/Limited Prep: Students in this program should expect to continue working on extemp or learning the basics of extemp in order to be able to give full speeches by the end of camp. Students in this program will do extemp speech drills where coaches will work on students performance and delivery along with improving student's research and analysis based on observations of students prior speeches at the start of the session.
Debate program will cover:
- Option 1: Public Forum: Due to the brevity of the program, this is meant more so for students looking to improve their skills as their primary focus over the summer without having to give up all of their summer in doing so. The focus of this program is doing debates and drills while also learning about new forms of argumentation (theory, kritiks, counterplans), while working on their debate skills related to critical thinking and decision making, improving partner communication, judge adaptation and word efficiency.
- Option 2: Lincoln Douglas: Just like our public forum program, the focus is more on debating and improving your general skills as opposed to working on the topic. Students in this program will be introduced to advanced arguments and improving their decisions making via exercises and debates on old topics while integrating new forms of argumentations and skills via lectures, exercises and debates.
Students can take two weeks of two different programs (Ex: Interp and PF, Platform and Extemp) but are discouraged from repeating the same without prior consultation with GSA.
Eligibility:
Students who have previously done our competitive program and competed at tournaments.
Students new to the Golden State Academy should expect to submit student's prior work including tournament records and judge feedback to help determine proper placement into the program.
Students with impromptu experience should expect to learn and focus on extemporaneous speaking over the summer program.
Have questions? Attend one of our open houses or contact us at [email protected]
Ready to register for our experienced programs? Click on the correct location below!
*Please be reminded that if you were in the beginner or intermediate level this spring, taking our experienced summer programs does not mean you will get to automatically advance to the next level next fall.
*Please be reminded that if you were in the beginner or intermediate level this spring, taking our experienced summer programs does not mean you will get to automatically advance to the next level next fall.
FULL-DAY CAMPS
WEEKLY EVENING CLASSES
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Sessions: ☻once a week between 10 June 2024 - 2 August 2024 ☻ 5:30 PM-8:00 PM
Address: 200 Brown Road #201, Fremont, CA 94539 Sessions: ☻once a week between 10 June 2024 - 2 August 2024 ☻ 5:30 PM-8:00 PM
Address: Aborn Institute, 2804 Riedel Road, San Jose, CA 95135 Sessions: ☻once a week between 10 June 2024 - 2 August 2024 ☻ 5:30 PM-8:00 PM
Address: 20432 Silverado Avenue Suite 211, Cupertino, CA 95014 |