Practice this week

Stevenson is our final tournament and our final opportunity to strut our stuff (and, not incidentally, qualify for SCOTIE), so let's take it seriously!

No one will be able to attend this week's tournament without practicing with a coach first.

Schedule:

Pulio: Wed, Fri
KT: Wed, Th, Fri
Freckelston: Wed, Fri

This tournament allows three entries per person if you are solidly ready (our caveat, not theirs). It also offers two cool special events: Wretched Interp and Story Telling.

Wretched Interp is the one that Jeffrey Niedermaier has done--lots of silly fun. The guidelines are these:

• Students should prepare one 6-minute program
• Material which would not normally be advisable for either Prose,
  Verse, or DI should be presented.
• Rules of presentation for the above events may be broken or parodied.
• Material may be excessively maudlin, cheesy, overwrought, juvenile,
  gushy, sentimental, etc.
• Coaches should discourage offensive language, profanity or
  insensitive material.

Storytelling is also a great deal of fun:

• Students should prepare two 6-minute programs, presenting one of
  these twice.
• Stories should be published works suitable for ages 3 through 7.
• Students are encouraged to use the books themselves and to display
  the pictures during presentation.
• Judges will be audiences of area children. Contestants’ younger
  relatives will be welcome.
• A supervising adult will compile ratings by tallying the judges’
  favorites.

If you wish to enter one of these special events you must find pieces NOW. There is not much time left to work on your pieces.

Let's rock Stevenson!

--kt