1. The following information was borrowed and edited from the following website: www.arpisd.org/default/District/GRANTS/.../Oral%20Interpretation.ppt‎ Prepared by J. Kirkelie

2.  “The function of oral interpretation is not only to discover, but then to share, and what joy comes from sharing literature with an audience! Those moments create a special bond between the literature, the reader and the listener.” Jana Riggins, UIL Speech Director

3.  Getting Started  Preparing for the Contest  UIL Categories  Resources

4.  Finding Poetry  Where to Look  Selecting Literature  Understanding the Text  Introductions  Transitions  Cutting  Rehearsal  Performance

5.  Libraries  Technology  College Libraries  College Bookstores  Used Books  Audio Resources  Newspapers  Internet  Testimony  Can you think of others? www.poets.org

6.  Consider Yourself  Consider Your Capabilities  Consider Your Audience  Consider Literary Value  Consider Appropriateness

7.  Speaker  Scene  Audience  Act  Agency  Purpose

8.  …prepare the audience  …allow the audience to meet you  …provide essential information  …establish a mood

9.  …how you relate to the selection  …the category’s requirements  …social issues  …the writer’s purpose  …an element of the selection

10.  …running out of time  …spoiling the experience by giving away too much  …asking trite rhetorical questions  …copying someone else’s introductions  …either reading or performing your introduction

11.  Read the ENTIRE selection  Thoroughly analyze the work as a whole  Continuity is critical!  Beginning, Middle, End  Stay true to author’s intent  Avoid cutting vivid passages

12.  Establish regular schedule  110%  Seek audiences  Mark your manuscript  Videotape  Audiotape  Work with other interpreters

13.  Focus!  Practice in noisy surroundings  Use a variety of volumes  Isolate portions of script for practice  Ask people to listen ONLY to intro…  Prepare more than one intro.

14.  Plan in Advance  What to Expect  Tournament Guidelines  Ethics and Sportsmanship

15.  School work comes first  Know the rules  Make sure you have met paperwork requirements-signed permission slip  Make sure you have a ride to competition  Provide parents with schedule info  Dress appropriately...

16.  Dress conservatively  Dress neat, clean, unwrinkled  Avoid clothing that draws attention to itself

17.  http://www.uiltexas.org/aplus/events/aplus- oral-reading http://www.uiltexas.org/aplus/events/aplus- oral-reading  I also have a wikispace page with extra information you need to look at outside of our meeting times. http://mskuilinfo.wikispaces.com/

18.  McLean Middle School 3816 Stadium Dr, Fort Worth, TX 76109 April 12, 2014, 8 a.m.- arrive no later than 7:30 a.m. Arrive 30 minutes prior to start time

19.  Contest Director must ask for and verify written documentation prior to the beginning of the round. Students shall not be allowed to compete without sufficient documentation. If an on-line data service is used for documentation, contestants should print the home page/main index page of the site from which the documentation was retrieved. Printouts of the documentation and the home page should include the URL of the web site. Bibliographic Information

20.  Category Restrictions  Material chosen for use in either category of poetry interpretation shall meet the following restrictions:

21. A. all selections shall be published, printed material, B. selections from plays or screenplays shall not be used, C. song lyrics published only as music shall not be used, D. no contestant shall use an individual poet in more than one category in the contest,

22.  Reference Book  Published Newspaper  Biographical Passage  Magazine Article  Book Jacket

23.  Internet  Printed  Rules and Ranking

24.  Judges evaluate each performer individually based on the total presentation. At the end of the round, performers are ranked in order of the quality of the presentations: Best is first, second best is second, and so on. All contestants are ranked. There can be no ties.

25.  Did the performer prepare you to listen to the selection?  Did the content, form, and delivery style of the introduction add to the over-all effectiveness of the performance?

26.  Did the performer recreate the persona - the person talking in the poem? (age, gender, race, educational level, social status, psychological and dispositional traits, etc.)  Did the performance reflect the scene - when and where the poem takes place and appropriately indicate any changes in location or time? (in a living room, supermarket, automobile, classroom, etc; morning, evening, winter, summer, etc.)

27.  Did the performer reveal the persona's purpose in saying the poem - why is the persona talking? (to convince, to persuade, to understand, to remember, to console, to tease, to explain, etc.)  Did the performer demonstrate an awareness of the audience - to whom is the person in the poem talking? (to him/herself? to another person? to a group of people?)

28.  Did the performer make appropriate use of physical skills in the performance? (movement, gestures, expressions, stance, posture, eye contact, etc. were motivated by the text and purposeful to the performance?)  Did the performer make appropriate use of vocal skills in the performance? (dialect, dialogue, volume, rate, pitch, etc. were believable?)

29.  Was the performer in control of the literature? (was the material appropriate for the performer?)  Was the performer in control of the performance situation? (use of manuscript, internal pacing and pauses, sense of closure were appropriate?)

30.  For more information, visit the UIL website at: http://www.uiltexas.org http://www.uiltexas.org  Or ask me to see the UIL Prose and Poetry Handbook