Speech Meet Selection Ideas

Literary Interpretation Acts 2:14-39 Matthew 5:3-42 I Samuel 17:26-51 General Woundwort from Watership Down Richard Adams Little Women Louisa May Alcott The Brave Three Hundred James Baldwin The Shakespeare Stealer Gary Blackwood The Ordination of Uncle Zeke B.A. Botkin "The Interrogation" from Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens The Happy Cure Rose Dobbs Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "Stealing the Motorcar" from The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame "Toad" from The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame The Wolf and the Fox Brothers Grimm Brer Rabbit Joel Chandler Harris The Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow Joel Chandler Harris The Golden Touch Nathaniel Hawthorne Old Man and the Sea Earnest Hemingway All Things Wise and Wonderful James Herriot O Ye Jigs and Juleps Virginia Cary Hudson Lord Brocktree Brian Jacques Martin the Warrior Brian Jacques The Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster Babe the Gallant Pig Dick King-Smith The Beginning of the Armadillos Rudyard Kipling How the Whale Got His Throat Rudyard Kipling Ulysses and the Cyclops Andrew Lang "Sorcery and Sudden Vengeance" from Voyage of the Dawn Treader C.S. Lewis "Triumph of the Witch" from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe C.S. Lewis "The Trial of Weston and Devine" from Out of the Silent Planet C.S. Lewis "The Picture in the Bedroom" from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader C.S. Lewis Pinocchio Carlo Lorenzini *"Poof no Eyebrows" Patrick McManus *"The Two Masked Raiders" Patrick McManus *"Tigger Comes to the Forest and has Breakfast" from Winnie the Pooh A. A. Milne "Mrs. Rachel Lynd is Properly Horrified" from Anne of Green Gables Lucey Maud Mongtomery *Tikki Tikki Tembo Arlene Mosel The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Farley Mowat *The Flopsy Bunnies Beatrix Potter *Tom Kitten Beatrix Potter From Summer of the Monkeys Wilson Rawls Love is a Fallacy Max Schulman From Heidi Johanna Spryi "The Two Families" from Penrod Booth Tarkington "Bilbo Meets Smaug" from The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien "The Scouring of the Shire" from The Return of the King J. R. R. Tolkien "Trolls" from The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien The Golden Arm Mark Twain Mrs. McWilliams of the Lightning Mark Twain "Tom Plays, Fights and Hides" from Tom Sawyer Mark Twain Beowulf Unknown "The Death of Roland" from The Song of Roland Unknown Spring Hiatus: Butterfly Lies N. D. Wilson Leave it to Psmith P.G. Wodehouse

Poetry Robin Hood and Allen-a-Dale Anonymous Jim Hilaire Belloc Lord Lundy Hilaire Belloc King Bruce and the Spider Bernard Barton Daydream Emily Bronte The Lovers of the Poor Gwendolyn Brooks The Eve of Waterloo Lord Byron The Ocean Lord Byron The Prisoner of Chillon Lord Byron Alice and the White Knight Lewis Carroll The Walrus and the Carpenter Lewis Carroll The Disappearing Alphabet Lewis Carroll How Rudeness and Kindness Were Justly Rewarded Guy Wetmore Carryl Frost at Midnight Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge *TV Roald Dahl The Church Walking With the World Matilda Edwards Growltiger's Last Stand T.S. Eliot Macavity - The Mystery Cat T.S. Eliot How Paddy Stole the Rope Hazel Felleman The Owl Critic James T. Fields Nathan Hale Francis Miles Finch Boy Dreams Mabel Forrest Blueberries Robert Frost The Wood Pile Robert Frost The Yarn of the Nancy Bell Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Daniel Boone Arthur Guiterman Quivira Arthur Guiterman The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers Felicia Hemans Contentment Oliver Wendell Holmes The Wonderful One Horse Shay Oliver Wendell Holmes The Spider and the Fly Mary Howitt Gunga Din Rudyard Kipling If Rudyard Kipling The Law of the Jungle Rudyard Kipling The Courtn' James R. Lowell Incidents in the Life of Uncle Arly Edward Lear The Jumblies Edward Lear Paul Revere's Ride Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Santa Filomena Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Skeleton in Armor Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Wreck of the Hesperus Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Knight Whose Armor Didn't Squeak A. A. Milne A Visit from St. Nicholas Clement Clarke Moore The Tale of Custard the Dragon Ogden Nash The Highwayman Alfred Noyes Sleeping at the Foot of the Bed Luther Patrick Annabel Lee Edgar Allen Poe The Bells Edgar Allen Poe The Raven Edgar Allen Poe The Sleeper Edgar Allen Poe Lee to the Rear John Reuben Casey's Revenge Grantland Rice The Fisherman and the Flounder John Godfrey Saxe Barb-Wire Bill Robert Service Carry On! Robert Service The Cremation of Sam McGee Robert Service The Joy of Being Poor Robert Service The Dumb Soldier Robert Louis Stevenson Lady Claire Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Charge of the Light Brigade Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Destruction of Sennacherib Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Lady of Shalott Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson Casey at the Bat Earnest Lawrence Thatcher An Address by an Ex-Confederate Soldier Maurice Thompson Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight Rose Thorpe The Ballad of Earendil J. R. R. Tolkien The Hoard J. R. R. Tolkien The Man in the Moon Stayed Up too Late J. R. R. Tolkien "Tinuviel" from The Fellowship of the Ring J. R. R. Tolkien A Georgia Volunteer Mary Ashley Townsend The Owl and the Fox Unknown Towser Shall be Tied Tonight Unknown O Captain, My Captain Walt Whitman Maud Muller John Greenleaf Whittier Rob Roy's Grave William Wordsworth

Historical Speech Blood, Sweat, and Tears Winston Churchill This Was Their Finest Hour Winston Churchill Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Jonathan Edwards The King's Speech HM George VI Liberty or Death! Patrick Henry Proclamation for Thanksgiving Abraham Lincoln FDR Declaration of War on Japan F. Roosevelt From "Professionalism in Sports" T. Roosevelt Tear Down This Wall Ronald Reagan Commandancy of the Alamo William B. Travis Washington Convinces his Officers Against Rebellion George Washington Bunker Hill Daniel Webster William Wilberforce's Abolition Speech William Wilberforce

Literary Speech From Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte "To Be or Not To Be" from Hamlet William Shakespeare Taming the Bicycle Mark Twain Spoofing Three Poets Mark Twain Last Words of Great Men Mark Twain

Reader's Theater *note, this category for the Rhetoric Speech Meet only For online resouces: http://aaronshep.com/rt/RTE.html Little Women Louisa May Alcott "The Tea Party" from Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll The Enormous Crocodile Roald Dahl The Princess Bride William Goldman Bumbo and Scrumbo and Blinko M.A. Jagendorf The Best School Year Ever Barbara Robinson "Bilbo and the Trolls" from The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien

Duet Acting "The Fight on the Log Bridge" from Robin Hood Anonymous "Mr. Collins' Proposal" from Pride and Predjudice Jane Austen "Mr. Darcy's Proposal" from Pride and Predjudice Jane Austen "Poem from Mr. Elton" From Emma Jane Austen Peter Pan J.M. Barrie "The Tea Party" from Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll From Through The Looking Glass Lewis Carroll "The Haunted Forest" from Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maude Montgomery "Raspberry Cordial" from Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maude Montgomery *Princess Bride William Goldman *Tevya and His Daughters Arnold Perl "Grave Digger Scene" from Hamlet William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew William Shakespeare Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Tom Stoppard "Riddles in the Dark" from The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien "An Encounter with an Interviewer" Mark Twain From The Adventures of Tom Saywer Mark Twain Charlotte from Charlotte's Web E.B. White *From "The Importance of Being Earnest" Oscar Wilde "King's Fisher" from Leepike Ridge N.D. Wilson "Bertie Steals the Cow Creamer" P. G. Wodehouse "The Crimewave at Blandings" P. G. Wodehouse "Gussie Presents the Prizes" P. G. Wodehouse "The Smile That Wins" P. G. Wodehouse