1. WELCOME!
JM Speech Team Meeting

2. Getting Started Information & Paperwork Warm Up
Concessions – February 24
Congrats to all – 2nd place at CF!
Paperwork
Registration – Farmington, Red Wing
Practice Sheets – Get signed
Rate/Rank Forms – what to do with these…
Brought to you by Junior Captains!
Nieland
Warm Ups – Junior Captains!

3. JM Home Meet Info
Be here by 7:15 a.m. – Check in with Coach Adam in the Cafeteria
7:30a.m. – be in the hallways and entryways – help welcome teams/judges & and give directions
3 rounds / no finals
Food / supplies donations – Rocket Center – 7:10 a.m.
Bring a lunch or $$$ for lunch at Concessions
Team warm up at 8:15 a.m. – with Coach Adam – meet in front of Concessions
Speakers can compete AND do the Polar Plunge – tell your Round 3 judge that you need to speak 1st
Nieland

4. JM Home Meet, Cont.
Draw categories: you will draw from ALL stories and/or topics – you will draw for EACH round
Captains – Mentor NEW speakers / posting schematics for rounds / awards
Discussion: you’ll focus on Section II from the outline – Corporate/Workplace/Consumers.
Awards: 2:00 (approximately) – Auditorium
Stay dressed up until after awards
Parents, family, friends – all are welcome
CLEAN UP! You will be assigned an area. No one goes home until we give the okay. 3:30 (approximately)
Coach Lyke

5. JM Meet: Schedule 7:45 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.: Team Registration
8:45 a.m.: Draws begin – Students will draw before all 3 rounds
8:55 a.m.: Judges’ meeting
9:15 a.m.: Round I
10:30* a.m.: Round II
11:45* a.m.: Round III
2:00 p.m.: Awards – We have been starting earlier.
Coach Adam

6. Miscellaneous + Q & A
If you have an open hour and can help with paperwork for our home meet, Nieland would appreciate it.
2nd, 6th, or 7th hours – Thanks!
Please come PM to help set up for the JM Meet (& earn a team point)
Any questions about the JM Home Meet?
Any questions about the C. Falls Meet?
Any questions about Speech meets in general?
Any other Speech-related questions?
Nieland

7. Farmington Information
Be a.m.
Bus a.m.
Home later than we have been (5:30ish)
3 rounds AND finals – Novice/Varsity
Bring a lunch or money to buy one
Continue to dress professionally
Nieland

8. T-Shirts - $10 to Zibby/Nikhil
Senior Captains

9. Fancy Apparell - $30 – Today!
Senior Captains

10. Other Details Next Face-to-Face Team Meeting – Feb. 13 – meet here
Feb. 20 – Online Team Meeting – Check the team website (under “Handouts & Updates”) for the PP with Red Wing Details – No School that day
Monday, Feb. 20 practices: re-schedule them with your coach TODAY!
Remember, if school/after school activities are cancelled, individual practices are cancelled (A note will be put on Facebook and sent out via Remind!)
Coach Adam

11. Info Speakers
If you want to work on your visual aids this week, Thursday after school works for me.
Bring color prints/pictures of your visuals. We have access to a color printer and laminator.
Other supplies will be provided.
Nieland

12. Breakout Groups- Disco – Nieland – 3210
Categories & Focus Areas
Who & Where
Public Address Categories – vocal variety
Coach Adam in the Art Area
Interp. Categories – vocal variety / character voices
Coach Lyke in this room
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Nieland
Don’t forget: a coach or senior captain will sign your yellow sheet sometime after 4:00.

13. Vocal Variety Celebrity
RULES
Only guess when a member from your team is doing the interp.
When you’re the one doing the interp. for your team:
You can not say the word(s) on the slip—or any variation of that word(s)
You must attempt to use a voice that mimics the voice of the character/celebrity on your slip
Pantomime is acceptable
You have 45 seconds to get through as many as you can
You may pass if you don’t know the character/celebrity listed
Lyke