The Speech Team meets every Thursday from 3:30 to 4:30pm. The team accepts grades 5-8, and you practice and memorize speeches to perform at speech meets. The meets are hosted in all the participating schools. You can perform a monologue (by yourself) or a duet (with another person)!
Not only do you get to travel to other schools during the day, but speech can help build a very important skill, confidence! If you want to improve on your social speaking skills, or if you just enjoy speaking, speech is the place for you!
At the meets, you are not competing against other people. The judges take YOUR score, and give you either a white, red, or blue ribbon! White ribbons are participation ribbons. Blue ribbons are the highest it goes, so congratulations if you get one! Red ribbons mean you didn’t get a blue ribbon, but you still did amazing!
Once you perform a speech, you are able to pick out a new one to memorize! I know that many of you will say, “Oh, I can’t memorize something so fast!” But they give you plenty of time to memorize your speech.
Here are a few interviews from different people in speech!
MM
What is your favorite thing about speech?
Picking out a new speech
How long have you been doing speech?
Two years
What is your favorite piece you’ve performed?
Dog Birthday Party
Which is your favorite: Monologue or duet?
Monologue
What’s your favorite quote from a speech?
“I also had to pay for Penny’s veterinary treatment because when Penny ate the raw hamburger, she also ate part of the broken saucer and had to have it surgically removed.” (Dog Birthday Party)
SC
What is your favorite thing about speech?
I like the feeling of accomplishment after performing
How long have you been doing speech?
Three years
What is your favorite piece you’ve performed?
Marriage Phobia OR I’ll Fix Anthony
Which is your favorite: Monologue or duet?
Monologue
What’s your favorite quote from a speech?
“Yes. For proposing at Walmart.” (Marriage Phobia)
DT
How long have you been doing speech?
Two years
What is your favorite piece you’ve performed?
Gary Trotter and He Whose Name We Cannot Say Due to Copyright Infringement
Which is your favorite: Monologue or duet?
Duet
What’s your favorite quote from a speech?
“PIG WARTS! Night of the Great Cribbage Game!” (Gary Trotter…)
EM
What is your favorite thing about speech?
The freedom to make the speech your own.
How long have you been doing speech?
Two years
What is your favorite piece you’ve performed?
A Pair of Lunatics
Which is your favorite: Monologue or duet?
Duet
What’s your favorite quote from a speech?
“I kind of like the excuse he told about being attacked on the way to school by a pack of wild dogs. He had to use his term paper to defend himself; it was destroyed in the process.” (The Boys in Our Class)
BM
What is your favorite thing about speech?
All the friends in speech
How long have you been doing speech?
One year
What is your favorite piece?
Gary Trotter and He Whose Name We Cannot Say Due to Copyright Infringement
Which is your favorite: Monologue or duet?
Duet
What’s your favorite quote from a speech?
“I didn’t do it!” (The Interrogation)
DW
What is your favorite thing about speech?
I like going to the speech meets and having all of my friends here.
How long have you been doing speech?
One year
What is your favorite piece?
The Cat’s Meow.
Which is your favorite: Monologue or duet?
Duet
What’s your favorite quote from a speech?
“Do not—I repeat do NOT—try this at home if you have a plastic shower curtain because when you are done you will not have a plastic shower curtain.” (The Cat’s Meow)
PM
What is your favorite thing about speech?
The speech meets.
How long have you been doing speech?
1 year
What is your favorite piece?
Come to Church Camp, Learn to Kiss
Which is your favorite: Monologue or duet?
Duet.
What’s your favorite quote from a speech?
“Especially the beauty of nature.” (Come to Church Camp, Learn to Kiss)
DT
How long have you been doing speech?
One year
What is your favorite piece?
A Good Sport
Which is your favorite: Monologue or duet?
Duet
What’s your favorite quote from a speech?
“Since all of the drops are falling down, I was taught that rain was always plural.” (A Good Sport)
MRS. NISBETT
What is your favorite thing about speech?
Watching the students change and grow.
How long have you been doing speech?
One year
