Speech Team Information
Hello! I want to take this time to personally thank you for your interest in the 2017 Lincoln High Speech
Team. I hope that you will choose to stay with this group so that we can form some lasting relationships
while we help you develop public speaking skills that will give you an advantage later on in life. We do
have a team website: mrskennedysclassroomlcs.weebely.com- under "Speech Team"
On the speech team you will:
Choose an event and create/ preform an original or scripted speech that will be judged and
ranked with others in that same event
Practice and write speeches on your own time.
Sign up for and attend one-on-one practices with one of the speech coaches to criticize and
improve your speech- at least once a week, but if you are serious about competing than it needs
to be more.
Attend group speech meetings whenever planned
Go to speech meets and perform your speech in front of a judge to be criticized and ranked
Display awesome school pride through integrity, sportsmanship, and determination through
speech meets and practicing :)
Follow and enforce the rules set out by NSAA speech guidelines
Possible events and descriptions:
1. Oral Interpretation of Drama For a group of 3 or more students. Preform a Script without
touching/props/ scenery. Involve the Audience through facial expressions.
2. Duet Acting for 2 students. Has to be memorized. Can use two chairs. Preform a script
(usually a movie scene or a scene written especially for duet acting.
3. Serious Prose preform an original or scripted serious piece. Has to have an introduction
(original). Usually involves acting and showing emotional range.
4. Extemporaneous writing a speech at the speech meet. Does not have to be memorized. Pre
determined topics:
5. Humorous Prose - preform an original or scripted humorous piece. Has to have an
introduction (original). Usually involves acting and showing comedic range.
6. Informative preform an original informative speech over a topic of your choice. Has to have
visual aids: Usually interactive. (memorized or from notecards)
7. Poetry. - preformed from a script. Can be original or poetry write by other authors. Usually
needs a display of a depth of emotion and understanding of the piece.
8. Persuasive perform an original persuasive speech about a topic of your choice. Can be read,
but should be memorized.
9. Entertainment perform an original speech (usually with an informative aspect) with an
entertaining spin. This speech usually has visual aids.
******When submitting entries for Humorous and Serious Prose, you will be asked to enter the
following information: Title, Author, Publisher, ISBM #, Website Published, means materials for
which the coach is able to provide proof of publication using either of the following methods:
Originating in print form or originating in digital form.
Event dates- Because it is early in the season, some of these events (dates and locations) may change.
Dates TBA- these will be handed out in paper copy, and also posted on the website.
We will attend districts, conference, and possibly 3 other meets.
Practice times:
Every week you will need to sign up to a practice time on Mrs. Kennedy's Calendar in addition to the
weekly scheduled speech meeting.
RESPECT
Concerns have been expressed in regard to the lack of respect being afforded to performers, coaches,
judges, audience members and host staff. Students and coaches should understand the seriousness of
their responsibility to the audience and the privilege of representing their school and 8 community. As
educators, we must recommit ourselves to the preservation of respect. Unfair acts prohibited by the
spirit and intent of the rules include the use of disconcerting acts or words. Deliberately disrespecting
the rules and fellow participants in the hope or expectation of gaining an advantage is deplorable and
indefensible. It is imperative that coaches, performers, judges and students make an extra effort to
model the type of behavior that illustrates the educational values of speech competition. Conduct that
berates, intimidates or threatens others, based on gender, ethnicity, or sexual preference is
unacceptable
