The Ottawa High School Speech Team traveled to the state after three members after being qualified in two events during the Morris section at the end of last week.
The speech team coach Steven Johnson said that this season has been “very solid” as a whole, which he and co-co-coal Tariyani looks every year.
“From the first day, to get the materials too long, people were working very hard,” he said. “So, it is appreciated. But then in the last three or four meats, when started in the sandwich, there was a lot of success in the entire team.”
Ottawa finished third in the dramatic doubles acting from Molly Even and Saddy Johnson and Awa Wagner in reading poetry.
In the state, both Ivan and Johnson will compete with a piece called “The Tats”. In the dramatic doubles acting, two people do a script – often a complete drama – which has been cut for eight minutes.
“It’s very dramatic,” Johnson said. “It is related to revenge topics, holding grazes and violence.”
Ivan said that there was a lot that goes into pieces, but its favorite aspect is that it stands out of others in a speech competition.
“It’s different,” he said. “That’s what I like it. Usually, DDA is a couple that has some kind of terminal disease. But we are violent and throw you through wrinkles. It has a lot of plots twist, and I like this aspect.”
Ivan and Johnson said that they were the main attraction of their year on the speech team.
“I was really trying to cool about it,” Ivan said. “And then my mother and I went into the car, and I just started thinking. … I faced my father, and he saw me crying and he goes, ‘Oh, Sweety, I am sorry,’ but I was so, ‘No,’ No, I made it.”
A junior, Wagner said that he had never made it a previous regional, so the qualification for the sections was an attraction, but the state is monumental.
“I feel very proud of myself,” he said. “I am happy to go with my two friends, and I am very proud of all of us as a team. … When I put the third place in the sectional and I realized that we were all living together, it was very special.”
Wagner will compete in poetry, an event during which the student finds a poem and reads it to the audience. Wagner uses its voice and forms of non -combustible communication, such as facial expressions and hand gestures, to express the spirit of poetry and message during performance.
Poetry events often have a recurring subject. Wagner is a suicide.
“I chose it because it is personally close to me,” he said. “I think it’s a good topic to share with other people to give them feelings and attach them with my piece.”
She said that she enjoys competition in poetry because although she is sharing a difficult topic, everyone in the room still feels bonded.
“I think we are all connected,” he said. “We are all sharing such difficult topics, and we share our voice and the feelings that come with it. I think it’s really special.”
Steven Johnson said that his goal for Even, Johnson and Wagner in the state is his best performance of the year for him.
“You can’t control what you have a judge, and cannot control what you are thinking,” he said. “When you are with your performance, you can say, ‘I did the best what I could, and it really liked it.”
“You can’t control how someone else did, but you can feel good about yourself, and this is always the goal.”
The state competition started from Friday and continues at the Poreia Civic Center on Saturday.