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The Speech and Debate team at Cornerstone competes in the St. Augustine Catholic Forensic League. Students in the Rhetoric and Debate class are automatically eligible to compete; other students in 7th-12th grades may also compete if interested.

Categories for competition and instruction include:

Oral Interpretation
Duo Interpretation
Debate
Student Congress

For more information, please contact Mr. Matt Johnson at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Below is a list of references that are helpful sources for research.

Links for Quotes

Primary Sources:

Original Documents
Founders' Constitution
Debate Research
Bartleby.com (dictionaries, quotes, thesaurus, more)

Debate Topics

Debatepedia

LD Links

Apologetics Links

Apologetics questions and information
E-Sword (Bible Study Software)
Bible Gateway ( Concordance)
www.monergism.com (classic sermons, articles, creeds, confessions, books, commentaries, quotes)
Blue Letter Bible (Greek and Hebrew Bible)
Bible Researcher (Bible research)
Desiring God.org (sermons, articles, books)
Puritan Sermons.com (sermons, writings)
Spurgeon.us (quotes, sermons, writings)
Cyber Hymnal.org (hymns)
Gracegems.org (quotations)
Spurgeon.org (writings of Charles Spurgeon)
Stand to Reason
John Piper
Follow the Rabbi (history and background)
All About God (answers to questions)
Living Waters (answers to questions)
Dr. Tim Keller (sermons)
Probe Ministries (answers to questions)
Mark Cahill (answers to questions)
Christian Apologetics and Research
Answers in Genesis
Sermon Index (thousands of classic sermons)
One Place.com (sermons)
Voice in the Wilderness
Christian Answers.net
Transfired Ministries
The Visual Bible DVDs (Matthew, Acts and John - $20 each)

Student Congress from

www.rufuskingforensics.com

Interpretive Links

Declamation Links

African American speeches
Top American Speeches
Speeches by Famous People
100 most significant American political speeches of the 20th century
The History Place
Neglected Sources (speeches of first African-American Congressmen)

Information about People

Current Biography Magazine
Dictionary of American Biography
Webster's Biographical Dictionary
Who's Who in America
Other specialized Who's Who volumes

Rhetoric Website

Brigham Young University

Newspapers and Magazines

Policy Think Tanks

Reference Sites

Altavista - largest database
Complete Planet (Deep websearch Directory)
Conservapedia - conservative alternative to Wikipedia
Credo Reference - reference website
Cyberstacks - websites listed by subject area
Dogpile - searches other search engines
Goodsearch - powered by Yahoo (donates money to Cornerstone Academy)
Google - searches entire internet
Infomine- searchable list of resources by broad subject areas
Info Please - almanacs, atlases, dictionaries, encyclopedias and more
Internet Public Library - many resources
Internet Scout Report - Searchable database
Invisible Web - Deep web search
Librarians' Index to the Internet - librarian-selected resource site
Library Spot - changing page of resources
Metacrawler - searches other search engines
Moreover - searches newspapers
Proquest - searches newspapers
Refdesk - online reference desk
Super Searchers Web Page - list of books and links to directories
Toolbar.google.com - easy access research
WWW Virtual Library - library of collected sites
Yahoo - searches entire internet

Government Sites

www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs - Government Printing Office - government reports
www.census.gov - US Census - all information
The CIA World Fact Book
www.findlaw.com - government "case ideas"
Firstgov - official web portal to all other government sites
www.gao.gov - General Accounting Office - funding and budget information
www.google.com/unclesam - Google Search only government related sites
www.house.gov - US House of Representatives - all information
www.senate.gov - US Senate - al information
www.state.gov - US State Department - general and specific information about the US
www.whitehouse.gov/news/fsbr.html - basic government statistics
Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report

Extemp Research Links

Media Monitoring Sites

Honest Reporting (Monitoring of Western media)
CAMERA (Monitoring of Western media, backgrounds, press releases)
MEMRI (Monitoring of Arab newspapers,
speeches of Arab leaders, in-depth studies of related issues)

Conservative Websites

Dramatic Interp

Impromptu

Split Second Thinking

General Research

Archives on many Worldview Topics

Other Resources

Speech and Debate Stats 2007-2008

UF October 6, 2007
Paul Cloutier and Joe Seidel - 1st Place Duo Interpretation
Jessica Muni - 1st Place Oral Interpretation; 2nd Place Student Congress
Jacob Willis - 2nd Place Extemp; 3rd Place Student Congress

Orange Park High School November 3, 2007
Diana Hart - 1st Place Oral Interpretation

Providence Christian School November 17, 2007
AJ Dagen - 1st Place Dramatic Performance
Jessica Muni - 1st Place Oral Interpretation; 2nd Place Extemp
Andy Goodall and Tyler Hall - 1st Place Public Forum Debate

Cornerstone Academy February 9, 2008
Angela White/ Hannah Constantin - 1st Place Duo
Diana Hart - 1st Place Dramatic Performance
Zach Wilder - 1st Place Original Oratory
Thomas Amerson - 2nd Place Impromptu

Speech and Debate Stats 2006-2007

Providence High School October 21, 2006
Cornerstone entered 3 events.
Will Irwin - 3rd Place Lincoln-Douglas Debate
Joey Goodall - 2nd Place Declamation
Funlola Falade - 1st Place Declamation

UF November 4, 2006
Cornerstone took 1st in 6 out of 9 events.
Michael Gibby – 1st Place Original Oratory; 1st Place Extemp; 2nd Place Student Congress
Funlola Falade -1st Place Declamation
Joey Goodall - 2nd Place Declamation
Stephanie Gray – 1st Place Dramatic Performance; 2nd Place Extemporaneous
Radhajyoti Deitenbeck – 1st Place Oral Interpretation
Jeff Jones – 1st Place Lincoln-Douglas Debate; 3rd place Student Congress
Will Irwin – 2nd Place Lincoln-Douglas Debate
Tanner Lowe – 3rd Place Lincoln-Douglas Debate

Cornerstone January 20, 2007
Michael Gibby - 1st Place Extemp; 1st Place 0riganal 0ratory; 1st Place Student Congress
Funlola Falade -1st Place Declamation
Joey Goodall - 2nd Place Declamation
Stephanie Gray – 2nd Place Dramatic Performance; 2nd Place Impromptu
Jeff Jones – 1st Place Lincoln-Douglas Debate; 3rd Place Student Congress
Will Irwin - 2nd Place Lincoln-Douglas Debate
Rebekah Constantin and Laura Dagen - 1st Place Duo Interpretation
Tanner Lowe and Jeff Marchand - 2nd Place Duo Interpretation
Tanner Lowe - 4th Place Student Congress
Ellie Pollock - 3rd Place Oral Interpretation
Jon Kalis - 4th Place Oral Interpretation

Ridgeview High School March 3, 2007
Michael Gibby - 2nd Place Original Oratory; 1st Place Student Congress
Funlola Falade - 1st Place Declamation
Jeff Jones - 1st Place Lincoln -Douglas
Stephen Hare and Ellie Pollock - 2nd Place Duo Interpretation

Going to the National Catholic Forensic League Tournament in Houston, TX
Michael Gibby in Student Congress.
Jeff Jones in Lincoln-Douglas.
Funlola Falade in Declamation.

BDI Novice Tournament at Buchholz High School
Joey Goodall - 1st Place Declamation
Laura Dagen and Rebekah Constantin - 2nd Place Duo Interpretation

Research Paper Topics:

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