Speech team- prose

[Over_the_Moon]

Speech team- prose#0

Posted: 7/12/06 at 11:59am

Where is a good place to look for a prose piece? My coach picked mine out last year, and it wasn't very good, so I was probably never even in the running for finals in that event.

Help?

"what have we learned? Don't smoke... don't do drugs and don't sing 'Defying Gravity'." -CATSNYRevival

[sondheimsweetie07]

re: Speech team- prose#1

Posted: 7/12/06 at 2:43pm

I was on speech team last year, and although i wasn't in prose ( dec YUCK!) my friend had a really good piece.
Once i see it again i'll tell you the details but it was about inner city kid gangs shooting type deal. She broke finals almost every time.

I'll try to give you the info tomorrow or later tonight if you want.

[Over_the_Moon]

re: Speech team- prose#2

Posted: 7/12/06 at 4:18pm

Thanks a lot, that would be GREAT.

"what have we learned? Don't smoke... don't do drugs and don't sing 'Defying Gravity'." -CATSNYRevival

[brodgers]

re: Speech team- prose#3

Posted: 7/22/06 at 12:43am

Are you a male or a female?

"Life is pretty simple if you just relax" - Grandpa; You Can't Take It With You

[renthead92]

re: Speech team- prose#4

Posted: 7/22/06 at 9:59am

Hey fellow speech-ian! Te-he, that's what I call the speech members on my team. I was also in Prose last year. It was fun. I did a speech titled "Penny" by Leota Hulse Black. Even though it's written for a male, It can work with a female. I placed in finales 3 times, but It was my first year, so I'm sure I mabey could've placed more if I'd done it a couple of years later. You can also look at this site, http://www.brookpub.com, for more speeches. It's were our team gets their speeches from.

[Salad_Fingers85]

re: Speech team- prose#5

Posted: 7/23/06 at 5:10pm

If you don't mind doing a lesbian piece its called "The World I Cannot Touch" It is a beautiful piece, though extremely hard to find. My friend did it this year, and it was her first year, she placed in finals everytime and went on to sectionals where she missed going to state by 1 point. It was her first year. Amazing piece but you can't mind lesbians is the only thing

[Over_the_Moon]

re: Speech team- prose#6

Posted: 7/23/06 at 5:43pm

I'm female.

I'll look into that, renthead, thanks!

Fingers, I was actually looking into this lesbian piece I found in a compilation, and it's really too long... I'll have to look into the one you mentioned.

Thanks a lot, all!

"what have we learned? Don't smoke... don't do drugs and don't sing 'Defying Gravity'." -CATSNYRevival

[Jon]

re: Speech team- prose#8

Posted: 7/28/06 at 5:05pm

You are virtually guaranteed to win if you find a short story in which the narrator's best friend either dies in a car crash after drinking too much or dies of a drug overdose.

[OverMyHead]

re: Speech team- prose#9

Posted: 8/6/06 at 3:46pm

Memoirs make great prose! Search through some at Amazon...they are pretty easy to cut too.

[ggersten]

re: Speech team- prose#10

Posted: 8/9/06 at 12:19am

The Game by Donald Barthelme. It can be cut to 8-10 minutes. It's first person. Narrator is going a little crazy - s/he's in a missile silo and the replacement crew hasn't come.

There should be some good bits in Auntie Mame.
The Color Purple should have some good stuff.

It's been a long time - do people still do Go Ask Alice? If that has receded, you could do that.
Another oldie but goodie is Sixteen.

Depending on your district, you could read from Forever by Judy Blume....You may not break, but you'll get some responses!