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WHITMAN 37th
Annual Remy Wilcox High School
Speech Tournament Invitation
2009, 1.0d |
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IE-AND-STUDENT CONGRESS INFORMATION |
IE OVERTIME AND
MATERIAL RULES
ALL EVENTS
HAVE SR. AND JR. DIVISION
· Senior: Open to any
student who wishes the best competition or who cannot enter junior division.
· Junior: Any student
who has not competed in individual events at 10 or more tournaments.
ALL EVENTS HAPPEN DURING ONE PATTERN
A student may enter 3 events EXCEPT
Extempers can do at maximum 1 additional IE event
Dual Interp competitors—only one of the two
partners can do Extemp.
Double and Triple Entering
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ANY STUDENT MAY ENTER UP TO 3 INDIVIDUAL EVENTS except
1) students doing Extemp can only enter a total of two events; 3) only one of
the two students doing a dual interp can do Extemp. Besides that, our
individual events rounds are long enough to allow triple entering (they are 1
hour and 40 minutes long).
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Students may do two but not three Dual Interpretations
as long as it is with different partners. THREE PERSON DUAL TEAMS ARE NOT
PERMITTED.
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Students remain responsible for arriving at their
rounds on time, and judges may give "no shows" to students
who do not show 15 minutes before the time the ballot is required to be in.
Schools may enter a maximum of 30 IE Slots (a student
in, for example, extemp and impromptu—means you have used 2 slots).
EXTEMP*
In the Extemp Prep Room, each contestant will be given question three current news topics, posted in speaker order at timed intervals.
The student selects one of the three topics and may prepare for 30 minutes with the use of notes, books, magazines, newspapers, and periodicals.
Students may, if they choose, use one 4 x 6 note card for preparation and speaking.
Students must state the topic in the introduction.
Students must prepare the speech without assistance from others.
TIME LIMIT: 7 MINUTES WITH 30 MINUTES PREPARATION. Students are given time signals in Extemp.
Topics will be generated based on CNN.com and Google News.
* Note: You can do only one additional individual event besides
Extemp. If you are doing Dual Interp, only one partner can do Extemp.
EXTEMP PREP is in Cordiner Basement West.
IMPROMPTU
The speaker will be given a choice of three topics in each round and will pick one on which to speak.
The topics will include a single word, a quotation, and a question designed to elicit the student's viewpoint.
Students must state the topic as part of the introduction.
Students may use a small 4 x 6 note card for preparation and speaking.
TIME LIMIT: speakers will have 6 MINUTES to read the topics, think about them, and speak. The speaker may divide the time at his or her discretion. Speakers are given time signals in Impromptu.
EDITORIAL
COMMENTARY
A scripted
speech that offers an analysis of and commentary on a contemporary news
event.
Speakers
will read the manuscript from a seated position.
TIME LIMIT:
between
NOTE: THIS
IS NOT RADIO COMMENTARY. You do look at
your judge during your speech.
ORATORY
The speaker
shall deliver from memory a persuasive speech, the purpose of which is to
convince, stimulate, or move the audience to change their beliefs or
actions.
The speech
must not contain more than 150 words of quoted and/or paraphrased
material.
Manuscripts
need not be turned in at registration, but students must have typed copies to
give to any judge who requests it.
TIME LIMIT: 10 MINUTES. No time signals will be given.
DRAMATIC
INTERPRETATION
The speaker
shall interpret one or more selections, serious in nature, from one or more
authors of prose, poetry, drama (play), radio, television, or recording and may
be a monologue.
Presentation
must be memorized.
Students
may not use props, makeup, or costumes.
Physical
movement to suggest characterization is permitted including full body
movement.
The title
and author must be identified during the presentation.
TIME LIMIT: 10 MINUTES. No time signals will be given.
HUMOROUS
INTERPRETATION
The rules are the same as those for Dramatic Interpretation except that the material should be humorous.
DUAL
INTERPRETATION*
A program
of one or more selections of published prose, poetry, or drama presented by two
students.
The title(s)
and author(s) must be identified.
The
presentation must be from memory; scripts will be penalized.
Props,
makeup and costumes are not permitted.
Physical
movement to suggest characterization is permitted including full body
movement.
The contestants
will not look at each other but rather ahead, except they may look at each
other during the introduction.
The
contestants will not touch each other.
TIME LIMIT: 10 MINUTES. No time signals will be given.
* Note: Only one person of a dual interp team can do extemp.
EXPOSITORY
The student shall deliver a speech, the purpose of which is to describe, clarify, explain and/or define an idea, concept or process.
Audio or visual aids may be used, but are optional. The tournament will not provide special facilities or aids for the students.
Notes are permitted but students should not be dependent on them.
TIME LIMIT: 8 MINUTES. No time signals will be given.
INTERPRETIVE
READING
The contestant shall interpret two or more selections from two or more authors.
The collection must include at least one selection of prose, and one of poetry.
No dramas (plays) are allowed.
The interpretation should be read from a manuscript and not memorized.
Students may not use props, makeup, or costumes.
Expressions, gestures, body positions and upper body movement are allowed as a means of characterization.
Full body movement is permitted.
The title and author for each piece must be identified during the presentation.
A theme must be established and the pieces should be balanced time-wise.
TIME LIMIT: 8 MINUTES. No time signals will be given.
IE OVERTIME AND MATERIAL RULES
No using the same material in different individual events.
Note: Students may not use the
same material in different events. Students may not use manuscript or
interpretation cutting material they used in previous years.
Whitman
Overtime Rules:
In all
Individual Events except Editorial Commentary, students who go 60 seconds over
are stopped by the judge.
Students in
Editorial Commentary who go 30 seconds over are stopped by the judge.
If the judge can show on a timer or stopwatch that
the student went overtime, he or she may and should rank the student one
position lower.
Notice—Time Limits for DI, Oratory, HI, and Dual
are 10 minutes.
ADVANCING
TO ELIMS: We will break the top 7 competitors in each event division
except in Extemp where we will break only the top 6 (due to time constraints).
Breaking to
finals will be based on a hierarchy set at the beginning of the tournament but
is dependent on the actual software we use. Our plan is to use the following
hierarchy: Total rankings; Total rating; Total ranking minus the worst ranking;
Total rating minus the worst rating; Judge preference (finals only); Most 1
rankings; and Cumulative ranking and then cumulative rating (finals only).
Events with 12 or fewer participants may not break to finals.
The above
is subject to the computer program’s ability to do these calculations.
I.E.
AWARDS: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and
finalists awards.
Divisions
There is a
junior and senior division of student congress.
·
Senior: Open to any student who wishes the best competition or who
cannot enter junior division.
·
Junior: Open to any student who has 1) participated in
extemp, impromptu or debate event 10 or less times (if not, go Senior); and 2)
participated in student congress five or fewer times (if not, go Senior).
Schools may enter a maximum
20 Student Congress Slots.
Note:
Debaters (Parli, Public Forum, LD, Policy) cannot do Student Congress (they
happen at the same time).
Students will deliberate the merits of the
fall WSFA bills ONLY
using Robert’s Rules of
Order with:
In general, we follow traditional NFL
rules for Student Congress with newly proposed changes:
1) Four minute speeches
2) Mandatory 2 minute questioning after
first Aff and first Neg, then no questions unless included within the four
minutes allotted to each speech
3) Elimination of the Base system for
calculating points, BUT each session must last long enough to give every
speaker the OPPORTUNITY to speak twice
4) No Student Choice Awards. Judges preferentially rank the top 14
students in the rounds and cum totals determine advancement to super congress
or awards.
There will be TWO sessions of student
congress, each lasting two hours. Two Scorers and a
Parliamentarian will evaluate each session.
Students may not access the internet nor
play games during the sessions. Students may use computers BUT must show the
screen to the Speaker, Judge, or Parliamentarian immediately at any time
requested. Students found to be accessing the internet shall be disqualified.
Students found to be playing computer games shall have their computer taken
from them for the duration of the remainder of the session(s).
Legislation must get to rrice@cvsd.org by October 2nd,
2009. She approves the 24 official Washington state Student Congress bills.
Whitman Legislation
2009 (Official WSFA Bills) (click to open word document with the bills)
2009 bills will be posted in
early-mid October, after Roberta Rice announces them.
Student
Congress Awards
STUDENT
CONGRESS AWARDS: 1st, Presiding Officer, 1st, 2nd,
3rd, 4th, 5th
There are two
preliminary rounds and a Super Congress.