Little Champions Speech and Debate Team | Grade 3-5

What You Will Learn Speech and Debate is an extracurricular team activity in middle school and high school. Like track and field, Speech and Debate tournaments have many different events.  This is a beginners’ course designed to introduce elementary schoolers to the writing, research and communication skills used on Speech and Debate teams. Content will include games, debates, speeches and other activities that will give them a fun and age-appropriate foundation for being a great public speaker. Keywords: speech, debate, public speaking, forensics, research, poetry, writing Design For  Grade 3 - 5 (rising) Prerequisite: Must be able to read at or above the 3rd-grade level     Course Overview 4 - 8 students 2 hours per class Eastern Time Saturday 10:00 - 12:00 p.m. ET  Pacific Time Saturday 7:00 - 9:00 a.m. PT 10 Classes/ once a week   7/24/2021 -9/25/2021  7/24, 7/31, 8/7, 8/14, 8/21, 8/28, 9/4,  9/11, 9/18, 9/25      Course Unit  Note: The