Key exercises for the Rhetoric class happen in small group recitations. This smaller setting is a place for students to practice and polish their rhetoric work. At the beginning of the year, students work on preliminary rhetoric exercises called progymnasmata which practice specific fundamental skills of rhetoric: invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery. After these exercises, students then start working on declamations which are larger, more formal speeches that are crafted towards a prompt that they have received in advance. These hall declamations are held once per term. The hall declamations are capstone exercises that reinforce all of the skills previously studied in the progymnasmata and participants receive awarded points for the student's respective halls that they represent.

Join us on September 26, 2025, from 3:00 - 4:00 pm in the North Campus Ballroom (Constantine).