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The entertainment event is one of the five public speaking events in which you must write your own speech. The goal is to (surprise, surpris
e) entertain your audience. Our competitors in this event are Darien Myers with her speech about how to be a nerd like her, Caitlin Hasenauer with her speech outlining a battle between teen female heroines, Madi McMillan with her speech about procrastination, and Lily Ralston with her speech about how to binge watch Netflix.
Informative
In another surprising turn of events, the purpose of the informative is to inform your audience about a topic of your choice. Gavin Myers is competing with his speech about Spina Bifida, and Tonja Hahn is competing with her speech about how reality television affects women.
Persuasive
This is the event for anyone who is good at convincing someone to take your side on something. In persuasive, student speak about various issues and provide evidence to prove a point. Our persuasive speakers this year are Tonja Hahn, who speaks about mandatory minimum sentences; Daisha Marquardt, who speaks about video game violence; Larren Fear, who speaks about how society treats body image; Jocie Baker, who speaks about declawing cats; and Kenessa Copeland, who speaks about the issues with American media.
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This event, which is called Extemp for short, is for the brave of heart. At the start of each round, you draw three current event topics and choose one of them. You have one hour to write your speech, which must be a minimum of 5 minutes. We have several students who have tried extemp this year: Dominic Naughtin, Mira White, and Malinda Foster.
Poetry
Poetry, once again, is just what it sounds like. Students in poetry present a 6-8 minute selection poetry, typically several poems. Right now in poetry we have Amanda Hahn, Michael Weber, and Jasmine Harness.
Humorous
If anyone remembers the famous "Albuquerque" speech by Michael Petska a few years back, or Marley Sandberg's speech that she presented at the assembly last year, that was humorous prose. Students select a funny piece, typically with multiple characters, with a maximum time limit of 10 minutes. Our current competitors in Humorous Prose are Marley Sandberg with "The Brother's Grimm Spectaculathon," Emily Kammerer with "Driver's Test," and Madisen Walters with "When Math Students Go Bad."
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This event is, of course, the opposite of humorous prose in that it deals with more, you guessed it, serious subjects. We have five team members who are competing in Serious Prose. Marley Sandberg is performing "Like Dreaming Backwards." Amanda Hahn is performing a cutting from "Winter Girls." Madisen Walters is performing sections of "If I Stay." Finally, Miranda Romero is performing piece called "Organ Donor."
Duet
The final two events are the group events. Duet is an event for two people, where they must perform a script memorized. Our current duets are Mira White and Sierra Poorman with "Bottled Up," and Madi McMillan and Kenessa Copeland who started the season with "Snow White and the Seven Psychoses," but may be changing it up before the season ends.
OID
Last but not least, there is Oral Interpretation of Drama, or OID. You may remember our group that went to state last year with a script called "Action News." In this event, you may have between 3 and 5 members which present a script together. This year, we have four OID's. Darien Myers, Caitlin Hasenauer, Allison Stewart, Emily Kammerer, and Malinda Foster are presenting a script called "Little Women 2: Wrath of the Undead." Next we have Madi McMillan, Kenessa Copeland, Sierra Poorman, Mira White, and Dominic Naughtin performing "So You Want to Be a Cheerleader?" Miranda Romero, Miranda Gerdes, and Kayla Cheever are performing "Caution: Librarians Ahead." Finally, Gavin Myers, Dalton Evans, and Colton Hasenauer are performing "We Loathe Our Customers."
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