Part IV: The Tight Five as Answerable Speech
Unit 13: Public-Event Preparation and Mountaintop Final
Monday November 16 and Wednesday November 18
What does it mean to stand behind a five-minute public act when the crowd, not the author, decides its competitive result?
Orientation
At the public final the crowd, not the author, decides the competitive result. The Tight Five stays a completion grade for ordinary scoring; the public winner and runner-up receive unconditional course As.
What this Unit teaches
- finalist and alternate responsibilities
- rehearsal under fixed constraints
- public audience as a different interpretive body
- crowd excitement versus electronic voting
- grace under misreading
- competition result versus academic evaluation (the Tight Five remains a completion grade for ordinary scoring)
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