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Peters Township High School Searching for Commencement Speaker
Are you a senior? Would you like to speak at this year's graduation ceremony? Check out the details to see what's required and if you're eligible.
Graduation—the only word that is a solace to students at .
It’s the day you look and work toward your entire high school career. Have you ever thought that may be you one day, up there behind the podium, looking out at your entire graduating class and their families? Well, now is your chance.
To apply, seniors must be eligible academically.
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Any senior with a GPA of 3.0 or higher, and has no disciplinary actions resulting in either in-school or out-of-school suspensions, may submit a speech for consideration.
To be considered, seniors must meet certain speech requirements and deadlines. The speech writing requires that the topics for the speech should be of interest to the graduating class and the general audience of three generations (grandparents, parents and students). Also, the speech must be typed double-spaced, 12-point font and approximately 3 to 5 minutes in length.
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The speeches must be submitted to the high school office by the end of school on Wednesday, April 13.
The author’s name should NOT appear on the speech, but the student should place his/her name, student ID number, homeroom and telephone number on a separate piece of paper and attach it to the speech.
Speeches that do not conform to these guidelines will not be considered, so make sure to check your speech before turning it in.
Once you submit your paper, it will go through an evaluation process. The speeches will remain anonymous. Each speech will be assigned a number, duplicated and placed in a packet for evaluation by the Commencement Speech Selection Committee.
The committee members will read and rank each speech, and then the authors of the five speeches receiving the highest ratings will be asked to give an oral presentation to the committee. The students that receive the highest ranking from this presentation will address their class at commencements.
The committee consists of a minimum of two high school administrators, two members of the high school English department, the speech teacher, at least three student leaders and up to five additional teacher representatives.
All students will be notified by Monday, May 14 via letter.
Questions?
Contact Mrs. Sitler in room A114 or at sitlern@pt-sd.org.
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