Welcome Back UIL COACHES 2020 2021 Meet the

Welcome Back UIL COACHES! 2020 -2021

Meet the Presenters! We are UIL Prose, Poetry, Extemp, Current Events, Literary Criticism, Latino Essay Contest, Theatrical Design, Film, and One-Act Play Coaches with Numerous State Champions! Mr. Bryan Honl Mrs. Jackie Zepeda bryan. honl@psjaisd. us PSJA North Drama Office: 956 -354 -2388

What is UIL POETRY? Oral interpretation involves the performing of literature aloud to communicate meaning to an audience. This literature is to be performed standing up while reading and performing the literature from a small black binder. In the category of Poetry, the literature performed has to be poetry.

UIL POETRY Rules Categories Binder Preparation Handbook

UIL Tournament Competitions

How to Run a UIL Poetry Event ORDER OF EVENTS ● ● ● ● Roll Call Draw for Speaker Order Draw for Category Prelims Semis Finals (Should be paneled if possible) Awards

How to Run a UIL Poetry Event Things to Remember ● Post-It’s are awesome for sectioning! ● Audience members are always encouraged to watch rounds. ● Make sure time keepers introduce themselves before the round starts and state all the rules to everyone in the room. ○ No Cell Phones ○ Show all Time Cards and or Hand Signs ○ Turn in Signed Time Ballots ○ Use Stop Watches and NOT CELL PHONES ● Make sure judges sign every ballot and master ballot. ● Do not return ballots until the round is completely over. ● Make sure coaches know there is a 10 minute verification period to verify final results before they are announced.

UIL Poetry in the Classroom

Practice! How to Teach Practice! UIL POETRY Practice! Ideas and concepts to implement in the classroom that will help you teach and coach UIL Poetry. ● Leaders ● Mini teams/groups/Names ● Groups Gather Points ● Teams Compete ● Teach students to cut ● Students cut for other students ● ● Students Critique each other Teach Students to Weave Teach Students to Direct Watch a lot of videos on you tube ● Read!

How to Teach UIL POETRY You can teach UIL Poetry in your class and break it down for various assignments and grades. ● Choosing one Category (A or B) ● Checking out a book ● Making a copy of the pages they are going to cut their piece from ● Turn in a rough cutting of their piece ● Turn in a final cutting of their piece ● Turn in a copy of their introduction ● Type out final piece in correct format ● Saving their final formatted piece on the computer in a student file ● Emailing the final formatted piece to the coaches/team email ● Printing the final formatted piece ● Neatly putting the final formated piece in slick sheets in their black binder ● Turning in final Black Binder ● Repeat assignments for other category

Managing the UIL Library Barcode Scanner:

Resources Poetry Magazines

Practice! ● ● ● ● ● Practice like it’s competition. Talk to me don’t…. . perform at me Look for imagery and see it Listen… See it before you say it. . . Highlight Write Verbs in the margins Read out loud and not in your head Never read sitting down Practice is not reading the poems

Questions?