Forensics

NEWS!! Congratulations Taryss Mandt!

Congratulations to Junior Taryss Mandt. The VHSL Forensics State Championship
Tournament was held at Harrisonburg HS on Saturday, March 26, 2011. Taryss, the
Northern Region Champion in Prose Interpretation, took 2nd place in the state!

2010/2011 Coach & Team Members

Coach: Joseph Green, Hayfield Alumni - Class of '99

Team:

Armin Haracic
Taryss Mandt
MaryEllen Martelli
Adde Plemons

Bria Woodyard

This dynamic, yearlong team incorporates drama, writing, and speaking in 14 events in three leagues. Hayfield's team has proved so successful that it competed in the National competition in the 2007/2008 school year. Competitions are usually scheduled twice a month.

Hayfield belongs to the Washington Arlington Catholic Forensic League. The organization believes the purpose of forensics to be "to encourage and assist in the development of articulate leaders through whose skills truth may be widely spread and becom and influence in the life of the nation."

For Information about the Forensics Summer Institute at George Masion University in Fairfax, VA, click here: http://www.gmuforensics.org/gmif/index.htm

Forensics offers a variety of opportunities for students to compete in, including:

Declamation-
- An event open only to freshmen and sophomores. Declamation is an event where a student must recite and interpret a speech that had been previously delivered. Memorized.

Duo Interpretation-

- Two students perform a piece from a play in the style of Reader's Theater, fixed position, acting straight out to the audience with no contact made between the two students. Memorized.

Dramatic Interpretation-

- A student performs a piece from a play by him/herself. The student may choose to play one part or many parts. Memorized.

Original Oratory-

- A student composes his/her own speech on any topic and performs. Memorized.

Oratorical Interpretation-

- A student must find a piece of prose and a piece of poetry to perform and interpret. Not Memorized.

Extemporaneous Speaking-

- A team creates a box or boxes of files (recent articles in the news). At the competition a student is given a randomly selected question on one of the four topics: Domestic Issues, Foreign Issues, Economic Issues, and Cultural Issues. The student must then compose a speech within 30 minutes that sufficiently answers the question. The team shares the box(es), but students must compose and perform on their own.

Impromptu-

- A student is given a prompt and then must divide up 10 minutes between preparing a speech and performing it. The student has no prior knowledge of the prompts and does not prepare a speech before competition. This is the only event that does not compete on the national level.