Hot Off the Digital Press: Region Oral Interp Note from Coaches Keller and Wells

Dear Deuel Community: 

Please help us in congratulating our Oral Interp Team in a fantastic Regional showing on Monday.  Deuel placed 2nd in the Region in Sweepstakes points (1st place, Sioux Valley, only had one point on us)!

Out of 7 events, Deuel is proud to have 3 Regional Champions: 

Jerra Olson (Humor)

Shannon DeBoer (Prose)

Tom Cook/Shannon DeBoer (Duo)

Congratulations also to our other State Qualifiers:

Megan Thiewes (Drama) 

Sam Wiekamp, Karina Noem, Shannon DeBoer, Tom Cook, Jerra Olson (Readers' Theater)

The State Oral Interp Festival will be held Friday, Dec 3 - Saturday, Dec 4.

Thank you all for your support shown to our kids this season!

Mrs. Jenny Keller

Mrs. Miranda Wells

Please note: Further information, stories and pictures about the Region Meet and State Qualifiers from the Birdwatcher Staff will be coming your way within the next few days.

Locals (Oral Interp)

Tonight, Monday November 1, is the Local competition for the Oral Interpers of Deuel High School. The meet starts at 4 p.m and is held in the lunch room, there will also be a supper for the interpers and the parents, of pizza and pop. It is a competition that decides who gets to go to the Regional competition. There will be a panel of three judges there to figure out who will be going. One person from each category will be going to the Regional Competition. The categories to go in are prose, poetry, humor, oratory, drama, readers theater, and duo. Since the coaches aren't the judges this year, it really does make it anyone's chance to go. Everyone did a fantastic job at the competition. It was great getting to see everyone's piece, some for the first time ever. It was nice to see all the parents their to support their kids and to see their reactions to their kids' pieces, that they may have also never heard before. All the interpers will get the chance to find out if they made it to regions, Tuesday November 2.

Parent's night.

Tonight is parents night at Deuel High School, and it is time for Interpers to try their hardest to impress the judges, to make it to regionals. Regionals is very important and to each interper it is important. Each person brings something interesting to the team, but realizing that only one in each catagory can make it to regionals, so it will an emotional night. On the bright side, there will be pizza and voting on interp rewards. Parent's night is deffenatally a good night for interper and their families to get together and show how much they care about their child, or about interp.

Pumpkin Stakes

    October 30th the Deuel Interp team went to Watertown High School For pumpkin stakes. We did all right for having no one in Drama. Our readers Theater should of made it into final rounds, but it did not. Deuel did do well, but no one won a pumpkin or a cup this time around. The same thing happened here at the Deuel meet, happened at Pumpkin Stakes, Lincoln to over, well mostly. Lincoln did have allot of people who made it to the Finals, but Sioux O- Gorman really stepped up their game, along with Aberdeen Central.

Novice Oral Interp

The new freshman interpers went to Milbank on Tuesday, October 12 for the novice Oral Interpretation Meet. Four girls went to this meet Hallie Shea (prose and duo), Kelly VandeBrake (prose), Becka Sides (humor), and Emily Maas (duo). Shea and Maas got a superior in duo, Shea received superior for her individual prose, VandeBrake got a excellent plus on her prose, and Sides got a superior for her humor.

Oral Interp coach, Mrs. Jenny Keller, said, “The novice meet gives students, new to interp, the opportunity to compete against others who are also new. It eliminates the possible intimidation of competing against students who are in their third and fourth year of interp and more experienced. The novice meet invites students who have participated in less than ten rounds of competition in high school. A standard contest has three rounds of competition, so this usually means, to qualify as a novice, you are starting your first season of interp.”

Becka Sides, one of the freshman on the team, said, “My favorite thing about Oral Interp is that you get to meet a lot of new friends. I like the older competition, but I liked being able to go against people of the same ability” The novice meet is a great thing and shows new interpers what their ability is. Shea said “I like the meet because you go against people who are all new. I went out for it because I did it in middle school and thought it was fun, so I stuck with it.”

“Work hard, try your best, and have fun because it goes by fast,” is some advice Jerra Olson would give to our newest interpers. She went along to the novice interp meet as a judge. Olson said “Going to the meet is a good since it gives the newer students a time to gain some more experience. I like judging because I get to see all the of the pieces and and help people get better.”

Mrs. Miranda Wells, also an oral interp coach, said, “It is a beneficial meet because it gives new interpers a meet to go to without the major competitiveness. The meet gives the coaches a chance to be hands on by being right there in the round.” The meet allows a competition without a lot of stress.

Brookings Oral Interp

      Monday October 25th was the Brookings OI meet. Brookings High School was a bit confusing. The high school is still under construction, so the auditorium was off limits. The scoring was a little weird. One round some one would get an amazing score but then another round some one would get a three with a twenty-nine. All though on the bus coaches Jenny Keller, and Miranda Wells were disappointed in the teams lack of practice, only three Interpers have been coming in everyday, (Not naming any names) so every on the way to Brookings, Keller lectured the team on their lack of practice.

Oral Interp Deuel Invite

Oral Interp was held at Deuel this weekend. Our Interp team came in with seventeen strong, but did not hold up against Sioux Fall’s Lincoln. Lincoln dominated the finals this weekend. As Deuel we did hold our own, although Lincoln dominated the finals if we were able to send a seventh into finals, we would of had it. Tom Cook, for his humour piece would of been the seventh in that category. Shannon DeBoar would of also been the seventh in her category. Both of them basically was one speaker point away from making it to finals. In the National Forensics League points are precious. As a small school we held our own and did well.

Deuel Oral Interper reads her poem to a fifth grade glass.

     “Twas the nightmare before Christmas not a creature was peaceful not even a mouse.” Was a line in the poem Lena Peterson (Me) read to the fifth graders in the library seventh period study hall. Mrs. Wells (the Librarian) asked me if I could read my Oral Interp piece to the fifth graders.

Mrs. Wells wanted to give the Deuel fifth graders a taste of Oral Interp, By doing so she asked a couple of us to perform our pieces. She chose me for my piece because, Halloween is getting closer and “Nightmare Before Christmas” is indeed Halloween. It is the essence of Halloween.