IOWA CITY WEST HIGH SCHOOL

SPEECH AND DEBATE

Dear Colleague:

You are cordially invited to the DAVID KANELLIS INVITATIONAL OVERNIGHTER to be held January 13-14 at Iowa CityWestHigh School.  The tournament offers five divisions of debate and six events in speech including: Varsity and Novice Policy Debate, Public Forum, Varsity and Novice Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Legislative Debate, EXTEMP, HI, DI, DUO, OO and OI.  

POLICY DEBATERS (Friday and Saturday) will debate the 2011-2012 high school resolution.

LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATERS (Friday and Saturday) will debate the January/February resolution.

PUBLIC FORUM (Friday and Saturday) will debate the January resolution.

LEGISLATIVE DEBATERS (Separate Friday and Friday/Saturday Contests):  Please submit legislation no later than January 5th to johnsonmegan@gmail.com.  We will provide a packet of legislation one week in advance to each team who enters the legislative debate category by the entry deadline.  There will be two kinds of Legislative houses: one session for Friday only (for those coming to compete in speech on Saturday) and houses for those wishing to compete in Legislative Debate on both Friday and Saturday.

INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (Saturday Only):  We will be offering the following events:  Original Oratory, Mixed Extemp, Oral Interpretation in Prose/Poetry, Humorous Interpretation, Dramatic Interpretation, and Duo Interpretation.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.  We look forward to hosting you in January!

Best,

Melanie Johnson johnson.melanie@iccsd.k12.ia.us

Megan Johnson johnson.megan@iccsd.k12.ia.us

Travis Henderson travis-henderson@uiowa.edu