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Sight Latin Events Guidelines
This year we will again
offer a Sight Latin Reading contest,
with slightly more time for each level
than we were able to allocate last year.
However, the time available for the
Sight Latin Reading contest is still
quite limited; we expect to have space
for 35 students on each level (levels ½,
1, 2, 3+). Because of the limited space
available, each school will be allocated
a number of guaranteed places for each
level, based on the number of JCL
delegates (of the level in question)
which that school has in attendance. For
example, if a school has 30 Latin
2-level delegates, and there are 100
Latin 2-level students total at the
convention, that school will be
guaranteed 30 percent of the spaces
available for the Latin 2 Sight reading.
The number of spaces guaranteed to each
chapter will be sent out after the
convention registration forms have been
received (most likely by the end of
March).
Students who wish to compete in Sight
Latin Reading MUST register for this
event at the convention during the
Friday registration period (i.e.,
signing up on the convention
registration form does NOT guarantee a
student a place in the competition).
During the registration period, a school
may only have its allocated number of
contestants sign up for the event. If
all spaces are not filled during the
morning registration, the remaining
spaces will be available to any
delegate, on a first-come, first-served
basis. Announcement regarding any vacant
spots will be made at the second General
Assembly on Saturday morning.
Sight Latin Reading is a sequestered
event, therefore all contestants must
report to the appropriate room at the
time the event is scheduled to begin.
Contestants will will be given a brief
selection in Latin appropriate to the
year of study enrolled. They will be
given a fifteen minute preparation
period in which a dictionary, provided
by the contestants themselves, may be
used. Macrons will be provided on the
selection to indicate long vowels. The
students may make notes on the
selections; no other scrap paper is
allowed. However, at the conclusion of
the preparation period, the passages and
dictionaries will be collected; the
contestants will be given an unmarked
passage to use as they appear before the
judges. The students will be expected to
read the passage aloud in Latin.
Judges will determine comprehension by
the quality of the contestants’ reading;
each contestant will be judged using a
rating 5-4-3-2-1 for confidence,
continuity, phrasing, word accent,
vowels, syllabication, consonant
quality, performance, elisions (poetry
only), and scansion (poetry only). Both
Classical and Liturgical pronunciations
are acceptable, but the contestant must
inform the judges before performing if
Liturgical pronunciation will be used.
LEVELS:
Sight Latin Reading awards will all be
given in the following divisions:
Latin ½, Girls
Latin 1, Girls
Latin 2, Girls
Latin 3, 4 and 5, Girls
Latin ½, Boys
Latin 1, Boys
Latin 2, Boys
Latin 3, 4 and 5, Boys
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