| The Speech and Drama classes are divided into two semester classes:
Speech first semester and Drama second semester.
Members of the speech class are encouraged to prepare for and participate in conference speech contests which generally begin in January. These contests are held on Saturdays and categories include Poetry Reading, Prose Reading, Radio News, Extemporaneous Speech, Dramatic Interpretation, Humorous Interpretation, Duet Improvisation, Pantomime, Duet Acting, Storytelling, Creative Original Reading. Descriptions of these events are presented earlier in Speech&Drama Club meetings than they will be presented in class. Joining the Speech&Drama Club would be a good move if you are serious about doing well in contests. Members of the drama class are encouraged to participate in the production of the school play during the third quarter. Production dates are generally in the first part of March. Members who will be working on stage or backstage as crew or cast MUST be prepared to clear their schedules after school and evenings the entire week before up to and including all public presentations.
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Classwork This quarter we will work on public speaking and business communication Communication Resource Center for Students Strategies to Succeed in Public Speaking - online lessons from the School for Champions What Not To Do When Making a Keynote Presentation 6 Elements of an Effective Presentation - presentation skills |
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Tim Sheppard's Storytelling Resources for Storytellers Effective Storytelling - a basic manual Story Arts | Story Arts Online!
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| Links to Help
with Speech Contests: Scholastic.com | Teachers: Write It site allows students to publish their own work for review, view other students' work, listen to student writers talk about how they wrote their pieces and read their own work; site also gives guidelines for writing each of 5 different genres; great writing resource for creative original and original oratory Lesson plans bookmarked for pantomime lessons ORAL INTERPRETATION (tips for dramatic and humorous interp, prose and poetry reading)
Impromptu Speaking or Extemporaneous Speaking - presentation skills Tales From Shakespeare by Charles Lamb - Read Print (To help with the play. Read prose summaries of the plays represented in our spring play.) Speech Topics - Impromptu Speech Topics for Oral Presentations |
Links for Class Awesome Scripts and Screenplays Lessons in Creating a Character Lesson plans bookmarked for pantomime lessons Educational Theatre Association - rehearsal hall Tragedy or Comedy? Dramatic Genres
PoemHunter.Com - Thousands of poems
and poets.. Poetry Search Engine
Read book online: Literature books,novels,short stories,etc. Page By Page Books. Read Classic Books Online, Free. The Short Story Classics: The Best From The Masters Of The Genre |
| Elsberry Invitational S Speech Tournament, January 12, 2008
Trophy winners Alyssa Thomas and Amanda Gilbert - Duet Improv; Keena Lewelling - Extemp
Cast of Where the Lilies Bloom, Performance dates: March 6-7, 2008
Seniors in our 2009 spring play, The Haunting of Will Shakespeare, presented on March 6 and 7, 2009. |
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Club Activities and News Dues are $5 again this year. Officers are Kelsay Bartlett, Yusef Jaouni, and Jordan Davis
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