Holiday Homework

I hope that you have had a relaxing break thus far.  Here are things that you need to be doing to keep us moving forward in the speech season.  ***REMEMBER our first tournament is Saturday, January 24th @ Chanhassen.  Please check at home to ensure your attendance.  We will start taking count on the Thursday, January 8th practice.

Our first practice back WILL BE January 5th.  We will be at the EHS.  Here are the things that need to be done for our practice.

Varsity:  If you hope to be ready with a doubled event please be in contact with us via email so that we can move forward in hopes that you will be ready by that January 24th tournament.  Your first event must be memorized and have the most recent draft sent to the speech account.

Novice OR others participating in the following events: 

Great Speeches:  Email or share most recent drafts to the speech account and be memorized by January 5th.

Info:  Email or share most recent drafts to the speech account and be memorized by January 5th.  We will have tripods or stands for you to check out during the season.  You will need to get 5-8 pieces of black foam board or tag board.  (I suggest the dollar store cheaper)  Then you will need to be finding images that would enhance your speech.  We understand that this is new to you so if you had the boards and several images saved we will have a meeting to talk about additional things needed and a day where we make boards together.

Storytelling and Extemp Reading:   All stories need to be printed out! Storytelling may have them in a binder or folder.   Extemp reading MUST HAVE  a small black binder (smaller then 8 x 11 sheet of paper) and put all prose selections in them.   BOTH EVENTS MUST HSVE ALL INTROS WRITTEN.  Finally we need dramatic structure for three of the selections.  Dramatic structure includes:  Exposition, rising action, climax, and falling action.

Prose: Needs to have most recent cutting sent to the speech account.  You also must turn in a dramatic structure.  MEMORIZE!

Please email with questions.  It is not to your benefit to wait until Monday and try to catch up.  These are all things that you can do at home and if you have questions we will answer in a timely manner!  

Rooms for Thursday, December 11th

We are displaced from our usual rooms by a dance competition on Thursday, December 11th.

These are our replacement rooms:

370 - 4PM Tim with extempers
371 - 5PM Andy with PF and LD
372 - 6PM Policy debate room 1
374 - 6PM Policy debate room 2
376 - 6PM Elizabeth room for speech ALL Speech MEET HERE FIRST
378 - 6PM Megan room for speech

REMINDERS and SCHEDULES

ALL PRACTICE has been moved to 6-8 on Mondays and Thursdays!

Some of you still haven't turned in your passes.  If you don't have them to us this week we will have to ask you to leave practice. 

Finals Week:
Upperclassmen required to attend ONE of the practices.
Underclassmen required to attend BOTH of the practices. 

Winter Break:
We will have one practice please be watching the website for the date, time, space.

Tournament Schedule:
The schedule has been updated.  LOTS of CHANGES so please look!

Practice Time shift starts next week!

JV State for debate occurs this weekend which means we will be moving our practice times to Mondays and Thursdays from 6:00 - 8:00.  ALL Participants will practice at the same time with the exception of Extemp speaking.  They will follow the schedule that Andy and Tim provide. 

What we you need to do prior to Monday?  Have your event materials read with assignments completed.  We will start working on events and performing in front of your peers. 

This change goes into effect on Monday, December 8th.