1. Completing your IE SCRIPT
Make sure to meet all script submission deadlines set by your league president

2. Step 1: Download & print the event Cover Sheet.
Cover Sheets are available here:
Please make sure that you have the correct CHSSA Cover Sheet for your event.

3. Step 2: Fill out the top of the cover sheet first page.
Print legibly! Fill in your league and area information in the top of the cover page Make sure that every space is filled out correctly. If DI or HI, please circle which one it is.

4. Step 3: READ all rules (2nd page of cover sheet)!
YOU are responsible for ensuring that your script follows all CHSSA rules for your event.
Make sure you understand source requirements and MLA guidelines. If you are unsure about MLA Style guidelines, consult the Purdue Online Writing Lab:

5. Step 4 (Original Events ONLY): Type your manuscript.
Once again, follow MLA Style Guidelines for both in-text citations (required both for direct quotations AND for paraphrased information) and for a Works Cited page.
Manuscript MUST be double-spaced!
In addition to using quotation marks, quoted material needs to be underlined.
In OA, highlight the advocacy portion.

6. Step 4 (Interpretive Events ONLY): Photocopy and prepare your script.
Follow all instructions on the checklist. OI and TI have rules specific to those events.
You MUST photocopy EVERY page from the original text you used, including the title page and the copyright page. The title page is the one that has both the title and the author’s name on it as well as the cities of publication; not the cover or “half title page” that ONLY has the title of the book.
Any introductory material must be typed, double-spaced, AND underlined on a separate page and inserted where spoken. Words added for clarification or transition may be written NEATLY in the margins of the page. Always indicate on the page where this material is to be inserted with arrows or carets.
Do NOT include your own typed script; only include the photocopy.
It is not permitted to add a song unless indicated in script. However a song could be incorporated into an introduction as quoted words. Any quoted words in an intro must be MLA cited as in an Original.

7. Step 4 (Interpretive Events ONLY): CONTINUED
Added words must not change intent of the author
Make sure no words are illegible, blacked out, crossed out, whited out, or cut off on your photocopy.
Highlight in one color all words performed. (TI uses different colors for each selection.)
Make sure you put the pages in the order that the words are performed, not in numerical page order.
If you are using more than one line from a single page in different parts of your presentation (not in order that they were written in the original text), you need to photocopy that page more than once so that the photocopied script in its entirety reads as performed.

8. Step 5: Use the CHSSA checklist to make sure your script follows all requirements.
Both student & coach MUST complete this checklist. Do NOT just check each box. READ the question and make sure your answer is YES before checking the box.

9. Step 6: Obtain ALL necessary signatures.
You will need signatures from your coach, the student, a parent/guardian AND a school administrator.
Students: ONLY sign the second student signature line IF you do NOT have a Works Cited page.
Please give your administrator adequate time to review scripts and sign them.

10. pages together in the order you intend.
Step 7: Staple or use a binder clip to keep your
pages together in the order you intend.
If you can staple the pages of your script with one staple, please do so. IF NOT, do not despair. Use a binder clip to keep the pages together. Please don’t use a staple if the staple will not go through all the pages of your script.

11. Step 8 (optional): Submit your script electronically.
Some leagues have agreed to accept certain scripts from their competing schools electronically. Please check with your league president to see what their digital script policy is.
You WILL need to scan the completed cover page into your document.
The entire document MUST be saved as a single PDF.
Save your file as: Event.School.Last Name.First Name.Year
CORRECT NAMING FORMAT EXAMPLE: DI.GRANADA.Doe.Jane.2018
Drop Box link:
Use pdf if you do not permit reviewing coach or league pres to make any edits. Use Word if you permit minor edits (underlining, highlighting, corrections to a Works Cited list, etc.) to bring script into legality.

12. (See deadlines posted on league website)
YOU’RE FINISHED!
Please make sure that you have your completed script turned into your coach in time for your coach to turn it in to the league president at least two weeks before your qualifier.
(See deadlines posted on league website)
Late or incomplete scripts will NOT be accepted for any reason, meaning you will NOT be able to compete in State Quals.