Award Speech

The award that I gave out was the, Sarcasm Award. I created this award because I wanted to write about something funny and this was the first thing that came to mind. I didn't do well on this speech. the main reason for this being that I didn't do it until the night before I had to go. actually, I did not work on this until the period before I had to go. that is clearly obvious because I did very poorly on this speech.

I truly need to work on doing assignments when they are assigned. With all of my speeches I have been waiting for the last minute to give them, and for a couple of them, waiting to the last minute to write them. that was they last time, because I am now putting all my effort into writing a great speech and giving it on time.

This speech was a way to improve our speaking because it had the "thank you" speech attached. having the inprov helped me to be able to come up with something you want to say, and fast. it was also a way for everyone to pay very close attention to everything that is being said in each speech because you cant be sure whether are not it will be you getting the award.

Slide Show Speech

For the slide show speech, I decided that my topic should be surfing. I think that I chose surfing because I am really interested in it. Surfing is also a topic that could grab the interest of the listener, and I think that my speech did that. when we were told to make a slide show, I immediately thought of how much I hate putting words on the slides. I hate this so much because I always read from the slides. After I found out that words were not a necessity, I knew exactly what i wanted to do. I loved the way my slide show looked at the end, I liked it much more then my speech.

I could have done better on my speech. I don't know why, but for some reason I skipped over a lot of things that I wrote down and I didn't have a very long speech because of that. Honestly, I probably could have done that speech without writing down anything, but I was scared that I wouldn't be able to, so I needed that security blanket. Another thing that would have made my speech better was an ending... it didn't have one.

Pet Peeves...

After I found out that I had to write a speech on a phobia or a pet peeve, I automatically thought, write about my fear of sharks. Then I got to thinking, that is a somewhat normal fear, who wouldn't be afraid of anything that could kill you swimming around underneath you. That made me decide to write about a pet peeve. I figured out many things that I just truly can't stand, about other people, and about myself. After making up a very long list, I went with "people reading over my shoulder."

For anyone who will be listening to the recording of this pet peeve speech, I hope you will be able to realize how true my pet peeve is. This was nothing I could just make up. I put a lot of time and effort coming up with what i wanted to say, and i think that shows through in my speech. I tried hard to speak loudly and clearly, which I believe that I succeeded with. I enjoyed writing this speach, and I had fun with it.

Megpetpeeve.mp3

Classic Speaches

I gave the famous speach by Susan B. Anthony on womens rights to vote. Out of the other speeches, this one was the oldest, it was given in1872. Giving this speech help me alot because I am more comfortable with reading other peoples words then my own. when I am giving my own speech I am concerned wheather or not people will like what I am saying and not think that it is boring. However, when I am reading someone elses words I don't care what people think of the text because I did not write it. Reading other peoples words helps me to stay calm, but though I was still really nervious. I think that I did well on this speech, I tryed my best to talk slower and not to stutter.

My First Speech :]

Many of the speakers, almost all of them, seemed as if they were very nervous. there were some, including myself, that filled up some of the time using "like" and "um". I think that over time everyone will start to feel more ocmfortable with the people in the class, which will help them to stay calm. I know what I need to work on. that is to stay calm, and not talk so fast. I get nervous very esayly, and when I get nevrous it tends to get me to talk fast and ramble on. I hope that by the end of the sememster I will be able to talk clearly and slowly with out using "likes" and "ums".