Minnesota State High School League
2008-2009
Speech Books & Selections
Storytelling
Best-Loved Folktales of the World
Edited By: Joanna Cole
Copyright: 1983
Published by: Anchor Books, A Division of Random House, Inc.
Cost: $18.00
To:
Speech Directors
From: Barbara K. Seng, MSHSL Consultant
Re: Stories for Storytelling Event
Stories will not always be six minutes in length. The student will not be penalized for selecting a
“shorter” story. Students must adhere to the rules of the event. To introduce you to the stories for
this year read the introduction page XVII to XXIV. Ideas in this introduction may help you introduce
the respective stories.
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Drakestail (France)
Ashenputtel (Germany)
The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids (Germany)
Crab (Italy)
Don Demonio's Mother-in-law (Spain)
Tom Tit Tot (England)
The Fisherman and the Genie (Arabian Nights)
The Old Woman Who Lost Her Dumplings (Japan)
Simple Wang (China)
Money Makes Cares (China)
Mister Lazybones (Laos)
The Tiger, The Brahman, and Jackal (India)
Anansi and His Visitor, Turtle (Africa)
The Wise Dog (Africa)
The Two Old Women's Bet (United States)
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Extemporaneous Reading - Poetry
The Voice That is Great Within US
American Poetry of the Twentieth Century
Edited By: Hayden Carruth
Copyright: 1970
Published by: Bantam Books
Cost: $8.99
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Robert Frost (page 3)
Mending Wall (page 4), The Wood-Pile (page 8), A Fountain, a Bottle, a
Donkey’s Ears and Some Books (page 12)
Carl Sandburg (page 20)
Chicago (page 20), Prayer After World War (page 26)
Vachel Lindsay (page 28)
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight (page 28)
Wallace Stevens (page 31)
The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm (page 40)
William Carlos Williams (page 49) The House (page 50), The Horse Show (page 66)
Sara Teasdale (page 75)
“What Do I Care” (page 75), Moonlight (page 76)
Ezra Pound (page 77)
Cino (page 78)
Elinor Wylie (page 103)
Full Moon (page 103), Prophecy (page 104), Let No Charitable Hope (page
104)
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (page 105)
Eurydice (page 107), “We Have Seen Her” (page 117)
Robinson Jeffers (page 120)
An Artist (page 122)
John Crowe Ransom (page 147)
Vaunting Oak (page 148)
John Peale Bishop (page 159)
In the Dordogne (page 160)
Archibald Macleish (page 163)
Signature for Tempo (page 164), Voyage West (page 165)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (page 167) From Fatal Interview, II (page 167), XI (page 167), XIV (page 168), XIX,
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Charles Reznikoff (page 187)
New Years (page 189)
Hart Crane (page 212)
O Carib Isle! (page 216)
Allen Tate (page 219)
The Mediterranean (page 219), Emblems (page 223)
Yvor Winters (page 226)
Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight (page 228)
Kenneth Fearing (page 236)
Obituary (page 237)
Louis Zukofsky (page 249)
From “A” 4 (page 254), 11 (page 257)
Stanley Kunitz (page 259)
The Thief (page 261)
Robert Penn Warren (page 277)
Fall Comes in Back-Country Vermont (page 278)
Elizabeth Bishop (page 319)
Visits to St. Elizabeths (page 320)
Hyam Plutzik (page 347)
Jim Desterland (page 347)
Delmore Schwartz (page 365)
Baudelaire (page 368)
John Berryman (page 379)
The Moon and the Night and the Men (page 380)
David Ignatow (page 395)
Last Night (page 396), Rescue The Dead (page 396), An Allegory (page 397)
Randall Jarrell (page 398)
Field and Forest (page 403)
William Stanford (page 413)
The Animal That Drank Up Sound (page 414)
Theodore Weiss (page 433)
Preface (page 433)
William Bronk (page 455)
Metonymy as an Approach to a Real World (page 455), The Feeling (page
455), A Postcard to Send to Summer (page 456)
James Dickey (page 491)
Fence Wire (page 492)
Denise Levertov (page 508)
The Quarry Pool (page 510)
Cid Corman (page 525)
Deceased (page 526), The Desk (page 526), La Selva (page 526), “I Have
Come Far to Have Found Nothing” (page 527), “There Are Things to Be Said”
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Philip Booth (page 533)
Deer Isle (page 534)
A. R. Ammos (page 552)
Hardweed Path Going (page 552)
W. S. Merwin (page 612)
The Mountain (page 614)
Edward Dorn (page 637)
The Biggest Killing (page 638)
Adreinne Rich (page 642)
After Dark (page 645)
Extemporaneous Reading – Prose
Points of View
An Anthology of Short Stories
Edited By: James Moffett and Kenneth R. McElheny
Copyright: 1995
Published by: New American Library, a division of Penguin Group
Cost: $8.99
To:
Speech Directors
From: Barbara K. Seng, MSHSL Consultant
Re: Points of View
The Points of View book we are using this year and next is the 1995 copyright. Cuttings for subsection, section and state contests will be taken from this edition. Therefore, you may wish to have at
least one copy of this edition.
In coaching this event, instruct students to read the “theme” introduction for each section to help
students develop introductions.
Reading “The Preface: and “The Afterword” should also help students in analysis and interpretation.
Have a good season.
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I Stand Here Ironing
Straight Pool
A Wilderness Station
The Night Watchman’s Occurrence Book
My Side of the Matter
Why, You Reckon?
First Confession
Birthday
The Voice from the Wall
The Bridle
The Five-Forty-Eight
The Only Rose
The Suicides of Private Greaves
A New Window Display
The Lottery
Tillie Olsen
John O’Hara
Alice Munro
V.S. Naipaul
Truman Capote
Langston Hughes
Frank O’Connor
David Wong Louie
Amy Tan
Raymond Carver
John Cheever
Sarah Orne Jewett
James Moffett
Nicholosa Mohr
Shirley Jackson
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