1AA Sections Information and Tips

Who: John Marshall Speech
What: 1AA Sections
Where: Northfield High School
When: April 12th, 2007. Bus leaves at 12:30 pm. Meet at the flagpole, do not be late! We will be home between 10:30-11 pm.

Special Information:
-Just like with an sports team, coaches prefer if you dress professionally to school the day of competition. In our case, wear what you will be competing in. If you make it into finals, you must stay in this attire until after awards ceremony.
-Even if you are not competing, please come and support the team.
-Bring a sack lunch or money for McDonalds AND concessions.
-You must bring copies of scripts if you are in Original Oratory, Creative Expression, Informative, Humorous, Poetry, Prose, Drama, and Duo. If in Great Speeches, you must bring a copy of the script, as well as the speech’s title, author, date, and site of presentation. Nieland and Johnsrud have more information about this.

Tips:
*These are small things we can do on an individual level to make ourselves more competitive:

*Dress Professionally: Suits are best if you own them. No tennis shoes. Take out any piercings outside of the ear. Wear nothing that could possibly be distracting.
*Practice speech before competition day. Go to practice with Nieland and Johnsrud. Make sure you are below your category's time limit.
*Get a good night's sleep this week. A full eight hours every night would be ideal.
*Act as if your judges are constantly watching you...inside and outside of your rounds. We take pride in our enthusiasm, but Sections is a very subdued event.
*Do not stress yourself out before competition. Stay calm. This can be especially difficult for Nieland and Johnsrud, who I have noticed getting very frustrated when they get asked a million "me-specific" questions the second we step foot in the school.
*Bring any good luck charms! :)

Good luck everyone...I have a feeling this is going to be a good meet for us.

-Paul