Paget Primary hosts oratorical competiion
Eighteen Paget Primary School students will compete in their third Annual School-wide Oratorical Competition today.
The entire school participated last week in a class competition. The finalists will compete this week.
The students will be judged in the following criteria: accuracy; voice clarity; voice projection; eye contact; posture and expression. The guest judges are Selwyn Woolridge; Thaoo Dill; Laurel Burns; Shangri-la Durham Thompson. There are 18 finalists.
The students will be reciting poetry such as “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me” by Maya Angelou and “Our Deepest Fear” by Marianne Williamson.
“Life Doesn’t Frighten Me”
By Maya Angelou
Shadows on the wall
Noises down the hall
Life doesn’t frighten me at all
Bad dogs barking loud
Big ghosts in a cloud
Life doesn’t frighten me at all
Mean old Mother Goose
Lions on the loose
They don’t frighten me at all
Dragons breathing flame
On my counterpane
That doesn’t frighten me at all
I go boo
Make them shoo
I make fun
Way they run
I won’t cry
So they fly
I just smile
They go wild
Life doesn’t frighten me at all
Tough guys in a fight
All alone at night
Life doesn’t frighten me at all
Panthers in the park
Strangers in the park
No, they don’t frighten me at all
That new classroom where
Boys pull all my hair
(Kissy little girls
With their hair in curls)
They don’t frighten me at all
Don’t show me frogs and snakes
And listen for my scream
If I’m afraid at all
It’s only in my dreams
I’ve got a magic charm
That I keep up my sleeve
I can walk the ocean floor
And never have to breathe
Life doesn’t frighten me at all
Not at all
Not at all
Life doesn’t frighten me at all
“Our Deepest Fear”
By Marianne Williamson
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

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