Speech Events Page

State Speech Championship events as recommended by the Kansas Speech Communication Association (KSCA) were selected by coaches for all classifications at the fall Speech Rules Meetings. The events adopted, plus Lincoln-Douglas debate, accommodates each classification’s individual preference without affecting the other classes.
Each classification’s selected events will be performed during the 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2009-10 school years. Event selection balloting will next occur during the fall Speech Rules Meetings in 2010.
Please refer to the KSHSAA Speech & Drama Manual for championship regulations.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The KSCA committee and KSHSAA have anticipated the following needed adjustments to the manual to reflect the above choices made by its membership. Ballots for any new event will be designed and ready for purchase by December 15, 2007.

Impromptu Speaking –
The manual has been changed on Page 26, Sec. 5, to read as follows: Each student is limited to two events and may not enter twice in the same event. NOTE: Students may enter only one “Draw” or “Preparation” event with the exception of Impromptu.

Thus, it is possible to enter Impromptu and Foreign or Domestic Extemporaneous Speaking in the same tournament.
Note: KSHSAA is soliciting suggested Impromptu topics from its membership to build a large data base of topics to be used at State Championship tournaments. Submit your suggestions under each of the following topic areas: proverbs, abstract words, events, quotations, and famous people. Please email a list of recommended topics to Reggie Romine at rromine@kshsaa.org.

DUO and Duet Acting –
If double entered in DUO and Duet Acting the student may NOT use the same piece/selection. It is permissible to be with different partners.

Like Events (DI and SSA or HI and HSA or DUO and Duet Acting) –
A student MUST qualify twice to double enter in like events.

A student who qualifies for SSA in an invitational tournament may enter DI at State or vice versa. A student who qualifies for HI in an invitational tournament may enter HSA at State or vice versa. A student who qualifies for DUO in an invitational tournament may enter Duet Acting at State or vice versa. Obviously at State, in each of these cases, they must comply with all rules of the specific event they enter.

One Act Play –
The manual has been changed on Page 23, last sentence to read: Please do not request coaches to present one-act plays before they have had their designated 15 minutes.

Festival Events –
Regional and State Festival events will remain the same for all 6 classes. Each school may enter the following ten events in any combination: Original Oratory, Informative Speech, Extemporaneous Speech, Humorous Solo Acting, Serious Solo Acting, Duet Acting, Oral Interpretation of Prose, Oral Interpretation of Poetry, Improvised Duet Acting, and One-Act Play.

FOREIGN
	* International Relations/Foreign Affairs/International Agencies and organizations * Africa/Middle East * Western Europe/Eastern Europe/Russia * China/Japan/the rest of Asia including the Indian Subcontinent * Latin America/South America/Canada/Mexico/Caribbean
DOMESTIC
	* Government – Local, State, Federal/Politics and Politicians/Public Service * America’s Social and Health Issues/Economy Business/Labor * U.S. Foreign Policy/Foreign Affairs/Military Issues * Science/Environment/Technology * America’s Judicial System/Education/Issues of Youth

The Speech Advisory Committee has been asked to define “unannotated indices” as used in the KSHSAA Speech & Drama Manual, page 32, Sec. 3, Extemporaneous Speech.
Unannotated indices may include, but are not limited to:
• An article file – contains articles from magazines, books, journals, newspapers, and/or other published printed material in original or copy form indexed by topic.
• A card file - contains index cards organizing magazines or books articles by topic with only the following information: article title, source title, date, and page number.
Previous outlines of extemporaneous speeches, written notes on extemporaneous topics, prepared speeches from handbooks and briefs, notations in the margins of published printed materials shall be barred from the extemporaneous prep room.
“Blank” extemporaneous outline forms are NOT considered previous speeches or notes.
Coaches are requested to reread both paragraphs of Extemporaneous Speech, Sec. 3. Preparation to avoid grievances at invitational or state speech tournaments.