OJCL Torch Winter 2021 | Page 15

THE OJCL TORCH: WINTER EDITION 19

The second, creative arts, are less visual and more rhetorical, geared to students who are less skilled in the fine arts. Students can recite passages of Latin which they have seen before and prepared in the Latin Recitation competition or ones which they have never been exposed to in Sight Latin. They can write their own historical essays and recite them in the English Oratory competition or write creative speeches for the Monologue. They can even create their own costumes on a designated theme. To learn more about the rules and locate passages and themes, take a look at ojcl.org/contests/creative-arts-contests/

Finally, the pre-convention projects. These ones are a hodgepodge of the rhetorical and fine arts. Projects include modern myths, poetry, cartoons, comic panels, and multimedia. More information is located at the top of the webpage ojcl.org/contests/pre-convention-contests/.

Take a look at the numerous options above and take a stab at at least three—perhaps one from every category. Do more if you can! Now get to creating projects and, most of all, have fun doing Classics activities (that’s one of the great benefits of convention after all)!