Rules

Hello all,

Area Speech Arts Finals:

Name Submitted for Competition:

Thank you for participating in the 2016 WR08 Area Speech Arts Finals. The schools that are competing and their contacts are as follows:

1) Hillcrest Community School - J. Tilly

2) Maurice Cody JPS - M. Salama

3) Brown PS - M. Cloutier & A. Foord

4) FH Miller PS - C. Nock

5) McMurrich PS - D. Marshall

6) Eglinton PS - J. Arniotis

7) Oriole Park PS - M. Paradis

8) Cottingham PS - D. Banerjee

9) Davisville JPS - C. Kam

If you do not intend on having a school public speaking competition, you are certainly welcome to send your class representative. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Good luck!

Rules

1. Speeches must be an original work by the student, not a recitation of another person's work.
2. Students may return to participate in the Speech Arts Competition if they have attended in a previous year, but may not present the same speech.
3. The presentation should be committed to memory, but cards with key points will be allowed. A speech written in its entirety is not allowed in any form.
4. After presenting their speeches, students will be asked two or three questions related directly to their speeches.
5. When presenting, students must not identify themselves in any way, by name, or school.
6. No display materials, costumes, uniforms (includes school uniforms) are allowed.
7. The use of a lectern (stand) or microphone is not permitted.
8. This is a speech arts competition as opposed to dramatic arts. Poems, songs and dramatic pieces are not appropriate.
9. Gestures must be kept to a minimum. It is not necessary for the head and hands to remain completely motionless, but gestures must be natural and spontaneous, as opposed to dramatic. Examples of unacceptable gesturing: wild arm movements (e.g. flapping wings), pirouettes, kneeling, turning one's back to the audience.
10. Students in Grades 4-6 will speak for 2-4 minutes.
11. The time is clocked from when the student begins to speak.