- FASD/FADC
FASD (Fredericksburg Area Speech and Debate), formerly known as FADC (Fredericksburg Area Debate Club), is a
homeschooling debate club based inVirginia .Overview
The alliance is still in its beginning stages, but in time expects to be one of the major forces in homeschool debate in Virginia, as well as
Region 9 .They are allied with
SVCF , a club from the Shenendoah valley, with whom they share research burdens and the writing of negativebriefs . The alliance has been termed VIDA, the Virginia Debate Alliance. [http://img178.imageshack.us/my.php?
]The coach is one of the premier
LD debaters in Region 9, who has a few years in policy experience and is willing to share his knowledge of debate with thenovice s of the club. Recently, several members of the club attended the [http://www.trainingminds.org/ Training Minds Blue Book Camp] inSouth Carolina , where they were instructed in debatetactics andtheory and gained a better understanding of the nuances ofpolicy debate .FASD is a registered
debate club in theNCFCA , National Christian Forensics and Communication Association. [http://www.ncfca.org/]2008-2009 NCFCA Resolution
This year's NCFCA
high school debate resolution is:Resolved: That the United States Federal Government should significantly change its policy toward India.
Debate Sourcebooks
When the resolution is made for the school year, there are many people who work hard to compile
source book s to give a boost to NCFCA debaters.Training Minds Ministries has three source books this year:* The Blue Book [http://www.monumentpublishing.com/store/102_BlueBook/]
* The Blue Book Advanced [http://www.monumentpublishing.com/store/104_bbadvanced/]
* The Midseason Supplement [http://www.monumentpublishing.com/store/104_bbadvanced/]Another source book is probably the most useful source book out there, but has the oddest name: The Purple Killer Bunny [http://pkb.1398publishing.org/] This source book has now been renamed Ethos [http://www.ethosdebate.com/]
Definitive Debate: An Outlet of Stimulation for an Intellectual’s Mind" [http://www.ddsourcebook.goingup.us] is yet another sourcebook.
A final source book is the
Black Book [http://www.debategurus.com/] which is very useful fornegative debating .
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