Persuasive Speech
Woohoo! I'm done with my speeches. Now all I have to worry about is the group project that will be assigned in two weeks. Of course, it's quite frightening to consider that I have to rely on some of those people for my grade.
Things could almost not have gone better for me if I had sat down and devised a "good" plan for an evening when I have to give a speech. In a class with an enrollment of 22 people, only 11 of us showed up tonight. Several of the people that showed up said that they had e-mailed Mr. Y and asked permission to do their presentation next week. Well, several more took for granted that they just could so it ended up that only 5 out of the 11 in class were prepared.
I think if I was Mr. Y, I would have busted on everyone for not being prepared. We had no class the week before spring break, then last week was spring break so they had three whole weeks to prepare and they still weren't ready?? I'll admit that I didn't start my preparations until the last part of last week, but I still managed to get ready.
So anyway...the speech. I chose to go second to do my speech. I gave my speech and just before the last sentence or two, as one of my two required visuals, I handed out a copy of Consumer Report's article "Used Cars: The Worst & Best." I got back up to the front of the room and all I saw was the top of everyone's head. It was pretty cool. Everyone was looking to see if their vehicle was listed in the "Used Cars To Avoid" list like my Dodge Stratus is.
Things could almost not have gone better for me if I had sat down and devised a "good" plan for an evening when I have to give a speech. In a class with an enrollment of 22 people, only 11 of us showed up tonight. Several of the people that showed up said that they had e-mailed Mr. Y and asked permission to do their presentation next week. Well, several more took for granted that they just could so it ended up that only 5 out of the 11 in class were prepared.
I think if I was Mr. Y, I would have busted on everyone for not being prepared. We had no class the week before spring break, then last week was spring break so they had three whole weeks to prepare and they still weren't ready?? I'll admit that I didn't start my preparations until the last part of last week, but I still managed to get ready.
So anyway...the speech. I chose to go second to do my speech. I gave my speech and just before the last sentence or two, as one of my two required visuals, I handed out a copy of Consumer Report's article "Used Cars: The Worst & Best." I got back up to the front of the room and all I saw was the top of everyone's head. It was pretty cool. Everyone was looking to see if their vehicle was listed in the "Used Cars To Avoid" list like my Dodge Stratus is.
So I went ahead and said my last two sentences and then began to gather my stuff up, shut my PowerPoint down, etc. and all at once someone realized that I had finished and they hadn't noticed. So they belatedly applauded and then went right back to reading the article. I was amused.
Since there were so few of us giving our speeches, we were out of class by 6:30 and the five of us that gave our speeches had permission to skip class next week, since we went to more effort than the rest. I was quite pleased! With 17 speeches to be given, I would venture to say that those that have to attend next week will be in for one long evening.
posted by Sharon @ 8:29 PM
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