4/27/2018 0 Comments A Stately SpeechBy: Anderson Prater
Last weekend Josie Barstad went down to Apple Valley high school where she made it to the final round of the state speech meet. Josie competes in a category called “extemporary reading” where each round she would draw three excerpts from a book and then she was given time to choose one and prepare to read it to a judge, who would score her performance. This year all of the excerpts were from Ray Bradbury books, and the book you compete with change each year. Josie has been doing extemporary reading since eighth grade and has made it to state once before. Josie had an exciting senior year in speech, including making it to the final round at most of her meets, and bringing home plenty of ribbons. Based on her success at invitational meets she was hoping to make it through to state, but shortly before the sub section meet she was struck with laryngitis and lost her voice. With what Josie described as, “twenty five percent of a voice” she powered through the sub section meet taking third which allowed her to move on to the section meet. Friday of the same week, Josie, still suffering from laryngitis went to the section meet with ”seventy-five percent voice power,” and some determination, where she took second place and moved on the the state meet. In speech there are three preliminary rounds followed by the “final round” for each preliminary round you are given a score. You are chosen to advance to final round based on your performance in the first three rounds, your performance in the final round is what determines your place at the meet. In the first round Josie drew one of her “favorite and best stories,” and subsequently in rounds two and three drew stories she had scored very high with throughout the year, this she said boosted her confidence and eased the nerves. In the preliminary rounds Josie scored high enough to move on to the final round with seven other competitors. There she placed eighth out of eight but was not discouraged saying, “I did even better than I expected and I was very happy with how successful men season was.”
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