Textbooks

Recommended Textbooks for ARC

If you have not already done so, order your Red Book (for LD) or Blue Books (for TP) as soon as possible.
ARC has copies of Christie Shipe, Thane Rend, and Rachel Welch and Brittany McGehee’s books. And maybe purchased at club meetings.

  • As you read the great literature, poems, prose, novels and other books, in your regular home school curriculum, consider how you might be able to reduce these into a 10 minute competitive interpretive speech or performance.
  • An Introduction to Argumentation and Debate, by Christie Shipe’s. >> Order.
  • As I Was Saying, by Thane Rend, our Individual Event (IE) textbook. >> Order It is the 5th item down on that page. Cost is $18.95 plus shipping.
  • The Blue Book. Training Minds Ministry >> Order for $40.00
  • Lincoln Douglas Value Debate – Student’s Edition, by Rachel Welch & Brittany McGehee >> Order
  • The Red Book Lincoln Douglas Debate, by Kim Anderson >> Order
  • For those interested in Extemporaneous Speaking, our textbook is:
    THE EXTEMPORANEOUS HANDBOOK. by Anna Crowson, $10.
    >> PDF Order Form
    9/6 – We have ordered 10 of these books if anyone would like one
  • Take notes, for the rest of the semester of our Sunday sermons from our respective churches. Many of you do this already, great!

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