Spoken Word 2022
Spoken Word 2021
Combined Spoken Word Competition and Writing Contest
Program Information and Resources #1
Spoken Word 2020
For additional details and guidelines, click the link below.
Spoken Word 2019
This year’s Spoken Word Theme is “I Quit”. The inspiration for this theme is the spoken word piece from Prince Ea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FonBwwDBxN4&t=56s This theme was chosen to give students the freedom to speak about any topic that they choose. While the theme sounds negative as you watch the Prince Ea’s performance you will see how powerful and positive the message truly is.
Spoken Word 2019 Goggle Folder– Contains: Rubrics, Competition Information Sheet, Registration Form
Spoken Word 2018 Promotional Video– https://youtu.be/
Spoken Word 2018 “A Change is Going to Come” RESULTS
Free Form Spoken Word Category-
3rd Place– Martha Cibasu- Horizon Science Academy Columbus High School 
3rd Place– Dewaine Billingsley- Horizon Science Academy Cleveland High School 
2nd Place- Robert Norton III- Horizon Science Academy Cleveland High School 
1st Place– Jocylan McMillian- Horizon Science Academy McKinley Park
Recited Spoken Word Category-
3rd Place- Jada Banes- Horizon Science Academy Cleveland High School 
2nd Place- Frenchie Johnson- Horizon Science Academy Cleveland High School- 
1st Place- Kalayna Glover- Horizon Science Academy Cleveland High School- 
Persuasive Spoken Word Category-
3rd Place- Erin Hare- Michigan Math and Science Academy 
2nd Place- MyIsha DeJarnett- Michigan Math and Science Academy 
1st Place- Kalayna Glover- Horizon Science Academy Cleveland High School
Team Event-
3rd Place- CaMarya Snipes-Thomas, CaMarea Snipes-Thomas, Lashane Hughley- Horizon Science Academy Lorain 
2nd Place- Kalayna Glover and Anthony Winfrey- Horizon Science Academy Cleveland High School 
1st Place- Dewaine Billingsley and Robert Norton III- Horizon Science Academy Cleveland High School
Photos by Mr. Flaherty- 
Spoken Word 2018- “A Change is Going to Come”
March 3rd 2018
Indianapolis Public Library- 40 E. St. Clair St.
Indianapolis, IN 46204
10am- 4pm
For the past two years at our Spoken Word competition, we’ve been shedding light on issues and injustices that the students are
facing in their lives and what they see happening in our country and the world. This year
not only are going to shed light on these issues by speaking about changes they want to see
but the students are also going to focus on the positive changes they are going to make in
the world/in their communities/their lives or the positive changes they already see
happening around them and where they derive hope from?
Spoken Word 2018 Goggle Folder– Contains: Rubrics, Competition Information Sheets, Registration Form
Links for more information about our featured activities:
Nelson Mandela:
Famous apartheid leader. For more information please click https://www.
SPOKEN WORD: “The Time Is Now #electtospeak”
March 11th 2017
Indianapolis Indiana
Winners:
Free Form:
1st Place- Leaishe Shannon- HSA Lorain
2nd Place- Justin Baynes- CMSA
3rd Place-
Robert Norton 111- Cleveland High School
MyIsha DeJarnette- Michigan Math and Science Academy
Lizee Decker- HSA Toledo 
Recitation-
1st Place– Daniel Johnson- GSA Fyler
2nd Place-
Hana Samad- Cleveland Middle School
Violoa Atkinson- Lorain 
Ayatallah Palmer- IMSA North 
3rd Place- Franheona (Frenchie) Johnson- Cleveland High School 
Persuasive Speech-
1st Place- Kalayna Glover- Cleveland High School 
2nd Place- Yakai Kamara- Columbus High School 
3rd Place- Montserrat Mayren- IMSA North 
Team Event-
1st Place– Ayattalah Palmber, Paris Warsaw, Jordan Hill, LaTavia Rivers- IMSA North
2nd Place- Indigo Ballard, Tim Brown- HSA Toledo
3rd Place-
Victoria Jackson, Kendra McVay-Howard- Michigan Math and Science Academy
Aaliyah Jones, Khalia Lucas- Michigan Math and Science Academy
The election of 2016 has been one of the most dividing and unprecedented election in the United States. When I started thinking about a topic I knew that by the time the Spoken Word competition rolled around something historic was going to have happened. Most of our students are not yet of voting age, but many of them will be effected by decisions made by our government. This is their time, their place, and their way of getting their voices heard. Students should use this competition to get across grievances, frustrations, and change they want to see within our world and within our government.
spoken-word-information-sheet-2017
Registration Link: https://docs.google.com/a/conceptschools.org/spreadsheets/d/18O12_dH4O7CXqSNOK9gUUjDpTrFIvMjtgCo1sup6q80/edit?usp=sharing
Rubrics: Spoken Word- Free Form and Recited Spoken Word Rubric, Spoken Word-Free Form Spoken Word Team Rubrics, Spoken Word- Persuasive Speech Rubric
Persuasive Speech Topics Document: spoken-word-persuasive-speech-topics-17
SPOKEN WORD: “LIGHT THE STAGE-SPARK A REVOLUTION”
MARCH 19th 2016
INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA
Results:
Spoken Word Information Sheet 15-16
Revolution has been central in creating the modern world as we know it. The word itself refers to radical, transformative change and has many generic descriptions. As a historical process, “revolution” refers to a movement, often violent, to overthrow an old regime and effect complete change in the fundamental institutions of society. On the other hand a revolution can also be a personal transformation period in ones life. This year’s Spoken Word Theme will examine revolutions that have happened in the world’s past, currently happening in our world, or a revolutionary event in the student’s lives.
“If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system. That’s much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.”
― Marie Lu
“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!”
― Albert Einstein
“Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution – revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people.”
-Ziggy Marley
“Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.”
-Norman Mailer
Registration Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pgAZwzJcM7gFDSoMElfWhOb2A5ObXxZcy-q6VGqkj18/edit?usp=sharing
Rubrics: Spoken Word- Free Form and Recited Spoken Word Rubric, Spoken Word-Free Form Spoken Word Team Rubrics, Spoken Word- Persuasive Speech Rubric
Persuasive Speech Topics Document: Spoken Word- Persuasive Speech Topics
