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
Warrior 4N6 ~ 2024 CONFERENCE CHAMPS!
The Lakeside Lutheran High School forensic team, under the coaching of teacher Mr. Steve Lauber, has won the conference championship for 14 years in a row!
Warrior orators compete in these categories:
Moments in History
- 6 minutes
- Something from a selected time period
- Original informative speech
- Support materials may be used but not worn
- Educates people on your topic
Farrago (death, love, hatred, jealousy, etc.)
- A variety of genres (poetry, short stories, speeches, essays, drama novels etc.)
- Maximum 10 minutes
- Have a main Theme- Love, War, etc.
- In the intro tell what it is that you are showing and why it is relevant or meaningful
Demonstration
- Explain how to do something or how something works Maximum 10 minutes
- Objects or physical activity must be exhibited
4-Minute Speech
- Contemporary American Problem (Don’t have to give a solution but you can)
- Informative
- Original
- No visual aid
Special Occasion
- Maximum 8 minutes Choose one of the selected topics
- 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
- Persuasive
- Problem solution
- Or urging the adoption of a policy
- Use compelling language
- Contemporary American Problem
Prose (a lot of emotion)
- Short stories, novels, soliloquies, essays centering on a theme.
- No acting
Solo Acting (a lot of emotion)
Humorous (more characters) or Serious (fewer characters)
- Intro memorized
- Entire thing is memorized
- No props.....Only a chair
- Teasers are allowed in the introduction
- Shoulders (for size)......... Knee bending (for height).......Stance (Variety).......Voice
- Use prose for these
Poetry (Read with feelings, e.g. Sad…Disturbed (The Raven)…confused…..Love……)
- Use a pseudonym if you are using your own poetry
- Center on a specific theme or emotion
- 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)
- 5 minutes
- Intro and Transitional statements and ending can be prepared.
- Rustling of paper is a no-no or anything you can hear on a radio
- Speaker can have own stopwatch
- 1 point deduction for every 10 seconds
- Just read it
Public Address (same as 8 minute oratory except the topic is chosen for you by the state)
- 6-8 minutes
- Choose one of the selected topics
Storytelling (Choose one of the selected topics by the State -- for lively people who can do voices).
- Have to sit in a chair
- Notes are not permitted
- Voice and body should be emphasized
- Create an audience