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CMMS Speech Team Competes all year!
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| Mrs. Eberly |
Speech Team practices most afternoons in the LA Room upstairs. Come on UP! EVERYONE in Grades 7 and 8 can join the CMMS Speech Team at any time during the year. Just bring a 5-6 minute dramatic reading selection with you whenever you decide to jump into line to use the microphone. Our round-robin speech practices take place three afternoons per week from about 2:40 p.m.-3:30 p.m. See Mrs. Eberly if you have any questions.
· The Catholic Memorial Middle School Speech Team, with its participation in the MMSFL, continues to provide our young men with a positive and supportive forum in which to advance their dramatic and public speaking skills.
· Most have little to no previous experience performing in front of an audience outside of athletic competition.
· Thus, most CM Knights also see their joining the speech team as a courageous decision, one that will launch each member on his personal quest to develop more advanced public speaking skills needed by adult leaders.
· Yearly, our team size averages 24-50 students but has been as large as 85. Our high school team numbers over 80 members this year with 74 of them former CMMS Speech Team members.
· In brief Speech/Forensics, has developed into one of the premiere activities at Catholic Memorial, 7-12, where nine seniors qualified for Catholic Nationals this year (2009).
MASSACHUSETTS MIDDLE SCHOOL
FORENSICS LEAGUE
2008-2009 Contest Calendar
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Sunday, Oct. 26
Sunday, November 16
Sunday, December 14
Sunday, Jan. 11
Sunday, February 8
Sunday, March 8
Sunday, May 3
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Nashoba Brooks School – Concord, MA
Milton Academy NOVICE only – Milton, MA
Oak Middle School - Shrewsbury, MA
Pike School - North Andover, MA
Jewish Community Day School – Watertown, MA
Wilson Middle School – Natick, MA
Milton Academy – Milton, MA
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Event Categories:
Prose Reading (Group A):
Play Reading (Group A):
Poetry Reading (Group A):
Original Oratory (Group A):
Novice Reading (Group B):
Duo Interpretation (Group B):
Declamation (Group B):
Impromptu Speaking (Group B):
Multiple Reading (Both Groups A and B):
In all interpretation events, the author’s words may not be altered for presentation with the exception that cutting is permitted.
Time Limits: 7 minutes (plus a 30 second “grace” period) in all categories except Multiple. Students may not use the same material in more than one event and may not use material they have performed in contests prior to the current academic year.
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