Welcome

12-12:15pm (15 min)

Praise Reports

  1. Grand Canyon Challenge completed. Ran relatively on time.
  2. Everyone who was supposed to compete was healthy and able to compete.

Prayer Requests

Class

  1. No technical difficulties

Johnson’s

  1. Lori Johnson – Food intolerance, sickness
  2. Mexican Mission Trip – pray for team (end of October)
  3. Neighbor Marcy – appendicitis, continued healing
  4. Dad’s job – hard, go smoother

Dutton’s

    1. Michael Dutton – Back, asthma, business direction
    2. Arisa’s Friend – Salvation
    3. Ms. Sharma – Dental surgery (implants) on Saturday
    4. Marsha Bates (Ms. Sharma’s mom) – Ongoing esophagus issue: had surgery with unexpected challenges, needs prayer for continued healing and next surgery that needs to take place, nutrition to be good.

Gonzales’

      1. Grandmother In-Law – Living situation w/daughter

Hogans

  1. Ryan Hogan – Leg & back pray for continued healing
  2. Noah Hogan – ringworm, no infection, fell down stairs (bump & numb there), upcoming CT scan for lymph nodes

Spicer’s

    1. Jen Spicer – probable surgery and medical tests to be clear

Past Stoa Members

    1. Mary Weaver – Breast Cancer. Still waiting for insurance to approve mastectomy surgery. Having hysterectomy Oct. 9th, nervous about it.
    2. Porras – make new friends, get of shell become more social, make move to Flagstaff/Prescott go smoothly
    3. McGarvie – Mr. McGarvie Salvation

    Persecuted Church

    1. China 

Announcements

Arise Team Building Event

  • Packed 20 boxes of 36 bags of 4 meals = 2,880 meals!!!
  • Our meals have shipped!!!

Local Tournaments

Fall Tournaments

Grand Canyon Challenge

Church of the Redeemer
717 N. Stapley Drive
Mesa, AZ 85203

  • Saturday, October 19th, 2019
  • All Speech Events

  • COMPLETED!!!

Cactus Clash

First Baptist Church
10215 N Saguaro Blvd
Fountain Hills, AZ 85268

  • Friday-Saturday,
    November 15-16, 2019
  • Impromptu Speech Events ONLY
    • Apologetics
    • Mars Hill Impromptu
    • Extemporaneous
    • Novice Impromptu (1st year students in each league only)
  • All Debate Events
  • Registration Opens TOMORROW: Tuesday, October 22nd at 8:00AM (MST)

Spring Tournaments

Camelback Classic

Northwest Christian School
16401 North 43rd Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85053

  • Thursday-Saturday,
    March 19-21, 2020
  • All Debate
  • All STOA speech events
  • Novice Impromptu
  • Juniors Tournament
  • Registration Opens: Tuesday, February 25th at 8:00 AM (MST)

Arise & Shine Challenge 

The Odyssey Preparatory Academy
6500 S Apache Rd
Buckeye, AZ 85326

  • Saturday, April 25th
  • All STOA speech events
  • Novice Impromptu
  • Juniors Tournament
  • Registration Opens: TBD

California Tournaments

Desert Gem

The Garden Fellowship
79733 Country Club Dr
Bermuda Dunes, CA 92203

  • Thursday-Saturday, January 23-25, 2020
  • All Stoa Speech Events (does not include novice impromptu)
  • LD Debate
  • ***Inquiring about Juniors Competition
  • Registration Opens: TBD

Inland Challenge

Immanuel Baptist Church
28355 Base Line St
Highland, CA 92346

  • Friday-Saturday,
    February 12-15, 2020
  • All Stoa Speech Events (does not include novice impromptu)
  • All Stoa Debate Events
  • ***Inquiring about Juniors Competition
  • Registration Opens: January 1, 2020 @ 5pm

Impromptu

12:15pm – 1:30pm (75 min)

Apologetics

12:15pm – 12:45pm

Lesson

  • 5-Part Essay Format Review
  • Paragraph Format Review

Impromptu Activity

Impromptu

  • Impromptu practice @ your table

5 Part APOL Speech Practice

  1. Draw 3 topics to choose from
  2. Select 1 topic to do practice speech writing 
  3. Decide on your thesis statement for the topic
    (your answer/position/opinion on topic statement)
  4. Create your 3 points to prove this statement
  5. Create your introduction
    (Make sure you use an attention getter “hook” and a preview roadmap)
  6. Create your Conclusion
    (Include a review roadmap. Make sure you tell your audience why your position is important or valid. Why they should pay attention to what you’re saying)

Impromptu Speech Toolbox

Apologetics

Determine thesis statement to APOL categories 1-3 for all Definition Questions.

  1. Determine which question you are answering from this list.
  2. Go to the Rough APOL Thesis Statement Builder.
    • Fill out this form to get close to your final thesis statement.
    • There will be instructions that you will receive after you’ve filled this out.
  3. Fill out the Final APOL Thesis Statement Builder.
  4. There are 16 questions in total for this type of question and these categories.

 

1st BREAK

1:30pm – 1:45pm

Speech (75 min)

1:45pm –  3:15pm

Lesson

Persuasive Overview

2nd BREAK

3:15pm - 3:30pm

Debate

Lesson

Debate Homework

  1. Read the articles located at Debatepedia – Multiculturism v. Assimilation

Tables

Table 1 – Juniors

  1. Noah Hogan
  2. JJ Miller

Table 2 – Seniors

  1. Keagan Johnson
  2. Violet Spicer
  3. Nathan Hogan

Table 3 – Seniors

  1. Katherine Johnson
  2. Emma Miller
  3. Jadyn Monoskie

Table 4 – Seniors

  1. Holly Spicer
  2. Arisa Dutton
  3. Kamila Gonzales