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FULL YEAR ELECTIVES

Chorus – 1303000
MS chorus will provide students with the opportunity to improve their vocal ability as they learn proper
singing technique as well as music literacy. Students will perform a diverse repertoire of musical styles
including Classical, Traditional, Multi-Cultural, Jazz, Broadway, Spirituals and Pop. Students will learn
how to read music and will improve their sight-reading skills. They will participate in a variety of
performances including formal concerts and off campus performances. The group will also participate in
adjudicated festivals. Advanced students will have the opportunity to audition for the Florida All State
Chorus and be selected for other State-wide Honors Choirs. Some after school commitment should be
expected, but is minimal. This class meets on the Bradshaw Campus.

Concert Band I & II – I: 1302000 (7 grade); II: 1302010 (8 grade)
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This performance ensemble is open to experienced band students. This course will continue to focus on
all performance aspects of the band instrument including tonal production, ensemble skills, and sight-
reading development. There will be numerous concerts throughout the year that are required as part of
the grade for this class. Concert Band members will have the option to perform with the Marching
Highlanders during the football season. After-school rehearsals will be required only for the students
participating as members of the Marching Highlanders. This class meets on the Bradshaw Campus.

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Debate I Honors – 1007330 (8 grade only; high school credit course)
Debate I Honors focuses on two different forms of High School Debate: The Debate Events (including
Lincoln-Douglas, Public Forum and Congressional Debate) and the Speech/Interpretive Events
(including Declamation & Extemporaneous Speaking). Debate I Honors is a high school credit class and
will appear as one credit on the student’s high school transcript.

Lincoln Douglas/Public Forum/Congressional Debate is an intensive competition-level
preparatory course that will provide a background for each of the three high school competitive
debate events and will focus on all of the conceptual and strategic attributes that will enable students
to compete on a national level in high school debate. The course will focus on research, case
construction, rebuttal strategy, in-round storytelling, tutorials on basic philosophy and a number of
critiqued practice rounds. Each grading period will include one debate resolution for each discipline,
as well as a two-week introduction to student congress. The process in which the debate team
tackles each resolution from topic analysis through debate will be used in an informative and
educational setting.
LD/PF/CD is for all 8 grade students who have a serious interest in competitive debate and/or
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planning to join the speech and debate team in high school in either Lincoln-Douglas, Public Forum
or Congressional Debate.

Speech/Interpretive Events teaches practical speaking skills while preparing the student for the
following competition events:
Extemporaneous Speaking – Working against the clock, research and deliver a speech answering a
question about important current events.
Declamation – Discover, adapt, memorize and perform a speech about an insight into life by drawing
together your life experiences with research about the world around you.
Speech/Interpretive Events is for all 8 grade students who have a serious interest in competitive
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debate and/or planning to join the speech and debate team in high school in either Speech or
Interpretive Events.

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Each rising 8 grade student who intends to enroll in the Debate I Honors course (Public Forum/
Lincoln-Douglas, or Speech Events/Congressional Debate) MUST TRY OUT. Debate tryouts are
scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, March 16 and 17, 2020, 3:30 – 5:00 pm, Middle School Campus.

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