2024 David Helton Fall Forensics Forum
Ambassadors for Christ (TN) · Nov 14-16, 2024
JR/JV Story Reading Rules & Ballot
JR/JV Story Reading
Description: In Story Reading, the student chooses a children's storybook and reads aloud a selection of their choice from the book. The selection and presentation of the story should captivate the audience. The student is encouraged to use voice inflection, tone, volume, expressiveness, character differentiation and facial expression to animate the characters and bring the story to life.
Goal: To select a story or portion of a story book and in reading it aloud bring the book and characters to life through the creative use of voice, inflection and facial expression.
JR/JV Story Reading Presentation Rules:
1. The student has up to 5 minutes to READ from an actual children’s storybook.
2. The student must read verbatim from the storybook, without added interpretive wording.
3. The student must bring and use an actual book in this event.
Speaking Time Limit– five (5) minutes. No minimum time.
JR/JV Story Reading Ballot
Tournament Events
Debate
- Lincoln Douglas Qual
- Parliamentary Debate Qual
- Team Policy Qual
Speech Pattern A
- Apologetics Qual
- Duo Interpretation Qual
- Expository Qual
- Mars Hill Qual
- Open Interpretation Qual
- Original Oratory Qual
Speech Pattern B
- Dramatic Interpretation Qual
- Extemporaneous Qual
- Humorous Interpretation Qual
- Impromptu Qual
- Persuasive Qual
- Slam Poetry Qual
JV Speech Tournament
- Bible Story Impromptu Juniors
- JR/JV Duo Interp Juniors
- JR/JV Expository Juniors
- JR/JV Original Oratory Juniors
- JV/JR Impromptu Juniors
- JV/JR Open Interp (includes Dramatic & Humorous) Juniors
- Platform Apologetics Juniors
- Poetry Interp Juniors
- Salesmanship Juniors
- Story Reading Juniors
JV Student Congress
- JR/JV Student Congress Juniors
Tournament Timetable
- Tournament Status will update to Open at 9:00 am Sat 10/05/2024 (Central)
- Community Judge registration will open at 9:00 am Sat 10/05/2024 (Central)
- Tournament Status will update to Closed at 11:55 pm Sat 10/19/2024 (Central)
- Tournament Status will update to Drops only at 5:00 am Fri 11/01/2024 (Central)
- Meal registration will close at 12:00 pm Wed 11/06/2024 (Central)
- Community Judge registration will close at 12:00 pm Sat 11/16/2024 (Central)
What the statuses mean
- Setup
- The tournament is still being set up.
- Open
- Registration is open — families can register for the tournament.
- Drops Only
- No new entries are allowed, but families can drop existing ones.
- Closed
- Registration is closed — no adds or drops. Contact the tournament director with questions.
- Completed
- The tournament is finished.