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Sophomores
Leitner-Schmidthuber

" .. .1 just did it for fun, to try it out, see what it was like. I'm in
speech and debate, and I did poetry one night and I loved it."
Sophomore Jamie Welch

"1 took poems by
A.E. Housman and
I wrote narratives
at the beginning of
each poem, told a
little about the
poem, recited it, and put a little
action into it. I just did it for fun,
to try it out, see what it was like.
I'm in speech and debate, and I
did poetry one night and 1 loved
it. I decided I'd keep on doing it.
I eventually wound up at state. I
like poetry a lot more than 1 like
debate. I feel like I'm more in
control with poetry and I'm bet­
ter at it. I went to districts at
Papillion. I made it to finals which
shocked me. The top three from
finals got to go to state. I stood up
there waiting, and they called my
name as first place so I got to go to
state. It was basically like any
other speech tournament, but we
had one round and there were
two sections. Everyone would
do their poetry, and we would
get rated for 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or 5th.
They took the top two from both
sections, and those two went to he day following a
finals so we'd go to finals and do T power outage
it again. I've never heard any­ Sophmores Becky Dusek
body do their own poetry. They and Dana Lyons try to keep
take poetry from regular authors warm while studying for
and they recite it. They (judges) semester tests in the cold
look for how you projected your cafeteria.
voice, how your speaking voice
is, what kind of poetry, if they
like it or not, if you did it well, if uring Foreign
you know it well. You have to D Language Week
have it memorized. Since it was students learn about other
my first time, I didn't really know cultures. Sophomores Amy
what to do so I just took regular Marsh and Sherry Shaw get
poems that rhymed. Most people to experiece French cook­
have poems that are stories, from ing.
the Holocaust or about child
abuse. I was the only one there
from Ralston; it (state) was pretty
exciting. I got to walk around the
(Lincoln) campus and meet a lot
of people. It was a lot of fun. I
didn't do very well, but I got to
go. I'm definitely going to do
poetry next year. I don't have all
of my poems selected yet, but I
know what I'm going to do it
about."