Forensics Team

2024-25 4N6 schedule

Saturday, Jan. 18 @ Watertown High School 9:00 am

Saturday, Jan. 25 @ Divine Savior Holy Angels   9:00 am 

Monday, Feb. 3 @ Poynette- Conference Meet 4:30 pm

Saturday, Feb. 15 @ Lodi  9:00 am

Saturday, March 8 @ UW Whitewater  9:00 am

March 15-24 Spring Break

Wednesday, April 2 Friends and Family Night @ LLHS 5:30 pm

Saturday, April 5 @ Madison Memorial WFCA State Tournament 9:00 am

Moments in History

1. 6 minutes
2. Something from a selected time period
3. Original informative speech
4. Support materials may be used but not worn
5. Educates people on your topic

Farrago  (death, love, hatred, jealousy, etc.)

1. A variety of genres (poetry, short stories, speeches, essays, drama novels etc.) 
2. Maximum 10 minutes 
3. Have a main Theme- Love, War, etc.
4. In the intro tell what it is that you are showing and why it is relevant or meaningful

Demonstration

1. Explain how to do something or how something works  Maximum 10 minutes
2. Objects or physical activity must be exhibited

4-Minute Speech

1. Contemporary American Problem  (Don’t have to give a solution but you can)
2. Informative
3. Original
4. No visual aid

Special Occasion

1. Maximum 8  minutes   Choose one of the selected topics
2. Create a sense of audience.....knowing who the audience would be and relate to them

8 Minute Oratory- same as 4 minute just longer and has to have a purpose/solution

1. Persuasive
2. Problem solution
3. Or urging the adoption of a policy
4. Use compelling language
5. Contemporary American Problem

Prose (a lot of emotion)

1. Short stories, novels, soliloquies, essays centering on a theme. 
2. No acting

Solo Acting (a lot of emotion)
Humorous (more characters) or Serious (fewer characters)

1. Intro memorized
2. Entire thing is memorized
3. No props.....Only a chair
4. Teasers are allowed in the introduction
5. Shoulders (for size)......... Knee bending (for height).......Stance (Variety).......Voice
6. Use prose for these

Poetry (Read with feelings, e.g. Sad…Disturbed (The Raven)…confused…..Love……)

1. Use a pseudonym if you are using your own poetry
2. Center on a specific theme or emotion  
3. 8 minutes

Playacting (Self-explanatory: A group of 2-5 students acting out a short 10 minute play)

Radio Announcing (Student that can work under pressure..Radio Voice...different voices maybe)

1. 5 minutes
2. Intro and Transitional statements and ending can be prepared.
3. Rustling of paper is a no-no or anything you can hear on a radio
4. Speaker can have own stopwatch
5. 1 point deduction for every 10 seconds
6. Just read it

Public Address (same as 8 minute oratory except the topic is chosen for you by the state)

1. 6-8 minutes 
2. Choose one of the selected topics

Storytelling (Choose one of the selected topics by the State -- for lively people who can do voices).

1. Have to sit in a chair
2. Notes are not permitted
3. Voice and body should be emphasized
4. Create an audience

2022-23 results

On Feb. 6, the Lakeside Lutheran High School forensics team participated in the Capitol Conference Tournament at Marshall High School where students competed against each other in 17 different speaking categories. Lakeside Lutheran, coached by Steve Lauber, finished first with a total of 299 points ahead of Lake Mills (173) and Luther Prep High School (119). The win marks Lakeside’s 13th straight annual conference championship.

Placing first in their individual categories were Rose Hissom, Oconomowoc, in Extemporaneous; Trey Lauber, Lake Mills, in Moments in History; John Loest, Beaver Dam, and Joseph Metzger, Lake Mills, in Playacting; Ruby Langille, Lake Mills, in Prose; Elsa Johansson, Columbus, in Solo Acting Serious; Sophia Starkenburg, Madison, in Solo Acting Humorous; and Caleb Wensel, Johnson Creek, in Special Occasion.

Taking second place were Leah Dorn, Beaver Dam, in Farrago; Linc Foskett, Jefferson, in Informative; Farah Stuebs, Lake Mills, and Aubrey and Cyrus Wilke, Waterloo, in Playacting; and Emma Smulders, Watertown, in Solo Humorous.

The full team has two more tournaments and then heads to the Wisconsin Forensic Coaches Association (WFCA) State Tournament at Oshkosh North on April 1.