My outline is pretty solid for what I want to convey about my person. I might need to add a few more details to very put together my toast. I might need to rethink my structure and limit some details in other things so my speech doesn’t run too long. Overall, I received good feedback on my outline so far and the places I was told to adjust I definitely will look into those areas and adjust what I feel like needs more adjusting.
During this very dry run of the speech, there were lots of things missing within my outline but this speech it is about something personal so it is much easier to ad-lib when dong this dry run. When listening to the feedback at the end of both of the group runs, I see when I need to go with the outline and understanding of my speech. I know what I want to talk about with the person I am presenting on, but now it is the time to just add those extensions to the outline and my practice runs. The ideas that I have now are working, but it is just an extension of those thoughts and being able to express the feelings about my person will be the most important. Overall I think just adjusting what I want to say, and having that highlighted in my outline will be important to the overall flow. Being able to have this opportunity to talk out the kinks and awkward pauses now will help us all create a better speech when we present in the coming weeks.
Getting feedback from my short dry-run outline was really helpful. My peers gave me new ideas as well as talking about how good my other ones are. I have discovered that I need to add a story, that I already have in mind, but that might make it a little bit more exciting and more engaging. My characteristics of him and certain things that I said are working really well and highlight those points in my speech for sure. I need to add some more things, obviously since it is only a dry-run, to make it longer and more interesting but I have those ideas in mind that I already know what to add to it. I am not going to cut anything but I will edit the way I talk about his personality and his humorous moments to highlight how funny he is. I already have the idea of how the speech will be built, so just adding some key pieces in will make it stronger and more interesting. So far so good! Good feedback from peers and I know what I need to do to make it better and what details I need to add in.
I honestly like seeing the pure reaction of my audience during the final speeches. Going through dry runs are important, and I understand the importance of them but sometimes I feel like the stories I tell my classmates won’t have the same effect come speech day since they’ve already heard it multiple times. I like the idea of saying it in small groups, but in front of the whole class seems like a lot because everyone hears your important points before the actual speech. As far as what’s working, I did enjoy sharing my ideas and getting advice from a couple of classmates. I do think I need to add some content and some more personal stories about my individual to make it more sentimental and to build up the time as well. Overall, I feel good about where I’m at and I’m excited about being able to talk about this individual in front of the class. The last thing I’ll say is I think I should develop a better hook/introduction into the person I’m talking about to better engage the audience that’s definitely something I’ll work on and edit this week.
This super dry run experience was. . . definitely a very dry run. It was good to get my ideas and stories, but but I did feel as though I had no flow and a lot of filler words. The feedback I got is useful and I can already see how I can improve my speech and description of my person. However, I am nervous that upon further dry runs of this same speech the audience will be bored of my speech before I can even give the final one. I may switch up or leave out some pieces of my final speech in my dry run. Today’s dry run was useful in gaining more ideas to add, however I imagine feedback from the next dry run – as the past one was – is going to be regarding the form of my speaking and not the content of my speech. In order to keep the audience engaged for the real thing, I think a second dry run should not be about my official draft but maybe something similar that I can still get feedback on my speaking style.
One thing that needs to be improved is the sub points I make. I make a lot of good points that I need to add on to and make it more in depth. I feel like when doing this all I did was make talk about the big points and did not go in depth at all. I need to go into detail about some of the points. I also feel like my transitions were not very good. I feel like I could have done better with those. I felt very jumpy when talking about points. One thing that went well was all the background information I gave, I really feel like I gave a solid understanding of our relationship and how we grew up together. I feel like I could add more at the end and make it so everyone knows the end and knows that this is not supposed to be a sad story and rather an inspirational story and not something to mope over because that’s what he would want. He would want people to keep going and use it as inspiration.
In class today was the first time going over my speech and I think it went ok. I only had a few bullet points to start and a lot of the talking I did today came from the brain not my outline. I was given good positive feedback, saying that I had a good start and just needed to add a little more depth. This is something I’m prepared to do because it’s true, I really only have the surface level points right now and there are definitely stories and pictures I can include to make it deeper. I think that I am going to try and create a little slideshow to include pictures of my mom. I talk a lot about how similar we are even in looks so I feel like a including a picture of what she look’s like would make sense. I was told that I have a good introduction which was nice to hear, I just have to keep that energy throughout the rest of my speech now. Today was helpful to get some light feedback and I’m ready to keep working on my speech and developing it.
After doing my speech twice in front of five people I got some good feed back. I understand where I need to fix and work on more with my speech. I did notice that everyone is doing speeches of people who are alive so mine will be different compared to the rest of the class. I do need to fix it a little and add more stories to show how much he was there and important for me. I think I wanna rethink how I start it off I am a little iffy about the start but I will see once I finish the speech. Definitely need to work on a nice ending to wrap it up. Gonna adjust the tone for the speech and try to not make it so sad but to make it a happy memory I am reliving with other people.
I thought that going over the outline that I made was helpful in terms of next steps. After building this speech outline, I noticed that I hit a lot of road blocks in terms of examples or stories that I could tell. What I need to do now is go back through my outline and find out where I can group things together better, and follow those things with examples or stories of the relationship I have with my Mom. I have found that this speech will be very meaningful. I did not necessarily expect this when I was writing it. All that I was trying to do was fill in the blanks of this assignment, when I should have been writing from the heart. This is something that I will do differently for next time.
In terms of things that I might need to rethink, I could go in the direction of flow. It is important to have proper transitions and connecting points so that the speech at least appears fluent. What stopped me in this sense when I was building my initial outline was that I wanted to get all of the information that I could get down, down.
I thought that this process was more or less helpful in terms of the future. It was not that fun, but I am glad that we completed the process as a class in the little groups that we did.
I think my first rough draft was good. I didn’t want to go into full depth on experiences, stories, and lessons learned to save it for the real thing. One big feedback was going into depth would help with the lessons I learned and to help with the overall flow. I got great feedback that my speech is not a light hearted one, its different and a nice change. Also the lessons that I learned are ones that most people can relate to. I was told that my layout was good. How I started with a brood background then go into a cascade of what happened to today. I also will add more stories and details about each event, how I reacted to being in the events, and what I took away from it.
The reflection of my dry-dry run for my speech 3 was overall good and felt confident. I discovered that everyone liked my opening and closing bringing it all together and having the same topic/sentence the whole word of sacrifice and how it goes more into depth. I also think my topics are working I need to organize it better with more with a flow I personally noticed it kind of jumped over the place because I didn’t want to go full in depth, of the speech itself but I could work on that to make my point stronger. I also have to include the toast part because I was kind of unsure how to approach it at all but after hearing my classmates I understand that point more. I think I’m going to build off the commitment part and family values being the “host house”more give a story of how we are all so close and how random days in the summer there would be everyone over with music and it’s just so natural for so many people to be over and sharing positive impacts just because of my mom being so open.
After doing our first round of dry runs, I discovered a few things that I need to do to build off my draft. First, I need a stronger outline. I need to focus on having a stronger introduction and conclusion because what I had today was very scrambled and awkward. I feel like I have strong points for the body of my speech but I need to make sure my supporting details flow nicely after the opening point. I also think that I’ll be able to use fewer words in my outline because I’ll be comfortable with the topic I’m talking about, right now I have very wordy points on my outline that can definitely be adjusted. I think that the order of my speech is good, adding more detail to support my points as well as a solid intro and conclusion will be important for making the speech long enough to fill the time limit.
After talking through my dry-run with two different groups, I was able to express who I was going to be talking about for speech three. When I was talking about my person, it was more just expressing my ideas. It was very choppy and was not too formal yet. It is definitely a work in progress, but I am feeling more confident in what I want to say. I want to add specific examples to my speech to really make it as strong as possible. I am discovering that I have a lot of ideas that do not coincide with one another, so I really want to try to narrow my thoughts down and create a speech that flows naturally. My outline currently contains a lot of context and jumbled words. I would really like to edit it to create a more straight forward outline that is not so paragraph-like but contains trigger words that can assist me by talking naturally. Over all, I think I am on the right track in the speech writing process.
In today’s dry run I landed on who exactly I want to talk about. I plan on talking about my fantastic grandmother. I have a small outline currently but there are many topics that I would like to cover. This is the first step, to start jotting down ideas of things I could talk about. I have plenty of stories from childhood to adulthood that I can talk about. I plan on mixing in the funny stories with the hardships she has overcome. These hardships are the backbone behind my choice of her to be the person I look up to. Though, some of her hardships being on the more melancholy side, I do not want to make this speech into some type of funeral speech, but instead would like to explain her hardships and her willingness to fight and mix that with fun uplifting stories because that is the type of speech she would like. I think this contrast between sad and funny will have a good impact on the audience. The dry run on Friday will be very important as I will get to gauge how the contrast of sad and happy will do.
Overall my story outline was good the audience was engaged. I would try to highlight more humor and create more of a show with this. I like the relationship I have with this person and I like the feedback I got. I think the strong relationship I have with her has helped carry a message throughout my speech. Because this hits home for me adding a sense of comedy or light-hearted comments might make this speech not feel as heavy. I enjoyed hearing others and now I feel confident giving my speech since everyone else did so well. I will say my dry run was just a little more advance than most but I don’t think there’s a problem with that. I want to add more structure to my speech while adding comedy. I also want to keep it more engaging while working on my tone.
I am discovering that the very dry run was extremely helpful for all members of the group. Being able to just get our ideas out there and start small was needed in order to complete this experience. Overall, I have realized that throwing stories into it helps it work itself into an actual speech. My group members gave me really helpful feedback and now I know to go into more depth with my stories and provide a sense of humor with them as well. I need to adjust the amount of time spent on each bullet point in my speech.
After presenting a very rough draft of my version of speech 3, I am discovering that I will have a lot to talk about when it comes to who I will talk about and what they mean to me. There are a few people in my life that really mean a lot to me so trying to pick one person was hard. Before class today, I had it narrowed down to 2 important people. After giving it some thought I decided to do this speech about my mom. Even though there was a lot to talk about anyone that means a lot to me, talking about my mom in class made me realize that I can make this speech work out well. I presented a good foundation of the things I wanted to talk about. Now I will work on the next step to make a dry run draft of the speech. In order to do this, I may have to cut a few minor details out since there is so much. I will edit and build on the things that are the most important and organize them to ensure I have a good flow of my speech on what my mom means to me.
After giving my (very) dry run, I am very satisfied. It was very helpful to receive feedback from my group. I had a broad draft that I went through, and explained to my group how I was going to set up my speech and some other ideas I had to add to it. I talked about my main points of the speech, and connected them to my life experiences. My group made some helpful and supportive comments which made me more confident for the real speech. I also found it helpful to walk through my speech with 2 different groups; the more feedback, the better. I will keep adding to my outline in the meantime and developing my speech with more points and examples.
Well mostly I’m discovering that I have a really sad life, and everyone else is much further along in their outlines than I am. It seems like everyone in my groups had a clear idea of who they want to discuss and what they want to discuss about them. We all felt my idea to discuss how a persons negative behavior has positively affected how I curated my personality as I grew up. As another student in my group was also going to discuss someone from the same perspective. So I think that’s a good idea for my speech as well. So now I just need to choose a specific subject and develop an outline of specific and general scenarios and reasons why they had a significant impact on my life. I honestly still have a lot of work in front of me. I’m going to try to balance out all negative aspects with a positive one, or at least try, in an attempt to keep everything in a positive tone.
I learned that my topic so far is solid and that it’s about my grandfather. I want to involve more personal connections into my speech. I don’t know if it was keeping it secret or not wanting to be redundant but I left that out in my first dry run. After chatting with my original group I got feedback and instantly knew what I wanted to fix. My advice that was given is that I should add more personal connection or stories with my grandfather. This would show my overall lesson of caring for people. When I met with my second group we went around in a circle re-sharing our stories. Upon suggestion I added a good overall personal story about my grandfather. When I was speaking I found it easier to talk about my family member and to form that connection of caring for people with it. Originally I was worried about time and if my speech would meet the minimum, now I feel confident about my length and content.
My outline was good, little improvement needed for the chronological order of it. My speech is about my best friend of 8 years, Daniella, so the aspect of growing up together and getting through life together will play a big role in my speech. I will be revising my outline a little to support my main points and have a better structure. I was given feedback to add in the stories about the experiences we’ve shared so I will be adding in those to support my main points and add background information about who Daniella is and how she has impacted my life. I am also thinking about including a slideshow showing pictures along the way that relate to the topics I will be discussing, however that is still to be determined. Overall, I think I am in a good place for my official dry run on Friday.
I am discovering that the very dry run was extremely helpful for all members of the group. Being able to just get our ideas out there and start small was needed in order to complete this experience. Overall, I have realized that throwing stories into it helps it work itself into an actual speech. My group members gave me really helpful feedback and now I know to go into more depth with my stories and provide a sense of humor with them as well. I need to adjust the amount of time spent on each bullet point in my speech.
getting feedback on my first “dry-run” in our groups really helped not really with my ideas or what to talk about but my confidence in what i was talking about. I didnt wanna get up and give a personal speech and have it not fit in with the other students speeches. It means a lot to me to imagine who i’m speaking about in a good light but also getting across the points that i need to to be able to give my speech the way i want to.
23 thoughts on “JOURNAL: IN-CLASS #1”
My outline is pretty solid for what I want to convey about my person. I might need to add a few more details to very put together my toast. I might need to rethink my structure and limit some details in other things so my speech doesn’t run too long. Overall, I received good feedback on my outline so far and the places I was told to adjust I definitely will look into those areas and adjust what I feel like needs more adjusting.
During this very dry run of the speech, there were lots of things missing within my outline but this speech it is about something personal so it is much easier to ad-lib when dong this dry run. When listening to the feedback at the end of both of the group runs, I see when I need to go with the outline and understanding of my speech. I know what I want to talk about with the person I am presenting on, but now it is the time to just add those extensions to the outline and my practice runs. The ideas that I have now are working, but it is just an extension of those thoughts and being able to express the feelings about my person will be the most important. Overall I think just adjusting what I want to say, and having that highlighted in my outline will be important to the overall flow. Being able to have this opportunity to talk out the kinks and awkward pauses now will help us all create a better speech when we present in the coming weeks.
Getting feedback from my short dry-run outline was really helpful. My peers gave me new ideas as well as talking about how good my other ones are. I have discovered that I need to add a story, that I already have in mind, but that might make it a little bit more exciting and more engaging. My characteristics of him and certain things that I said are working really well and highlight those points in my speech for sure. I need to add some more things, obviously since it is only a dry-run, to make it longer and more interesting but I have those ideas in mind that I already know what to add to it. I am not going to cut anything but I will edit the way I talk about his personality and his humorous moments to highlight how funny he is. I already have the idea of how the speech will be built, so just adding some key pieces in will make it stronger and more interesting. So far so good! Good feedback from peers and I know what I need to do to make it better and what details I need to add in.
I honestly like seeing the pure reaction of my audience during the final speeches. Going through dry runs are important, and I understand the importance of them but sometimes I feel like the stories I tell my classmates won’t have the same effect come speech day since they’ve already heard it multiple times. I like the idea of saying it in small groups, but in front of the whole class seems like a lot because everyone hears your important points before the actual speech. As far as what’s working, I did enjoy sharing my ideas and getting advice from a couple of classmates. I do think I need to add some content and some more personal stories about my individual to make it more sentimental and to build up the time as well. Overall, I feel good about where I’m at and I’m excited about being able to talk about this individual in front of the class. The last thing I’ll say is I think I should develop a better hook/introduction into the person I’m talking about to better engage the audience that’s definitely something I’ll work on and edit this week.
This super dry run experience was. . . definitely a very dry run. It was good to get my ideas and stories, but but I did feel as though I had no flow and a lot of filler words. The feedback I got is useful and I can already see how I can improve my speech and description of my person. However, I am nervous that upon further dry runs of this same speech the audience will be bored of my speech before I can even give the final one. I may switch up or leave out some pieces of my final speech in my dry run. Today’s dry run was useful in gaining more ideas to add, however I imagine feedback from the next dry run – as the past one was – is going to be regarding the form of my speaking and not the content of my speech. In order to keep the audience engaged for the real thing, I think a second dry run should not be about my official draft but maybe something similar that I can still get feedback on my speaking style.
One thing that needs to be improved is the sub points I make. I make a lot of good points that I need to add on to and make it more in depth. I feel like when doing this all I did was make talk about the big points and did not go in depth at all. I need to go into detail about some of the points. I also feel like my transitions were not very good. I feel like I could have done better with those. I felt very jumpy when talking about points. One thing that went well was all the background information I gave, I really feel like I gave a solid understanding of our relationship and how we grew up together. I feel like I could add more at the end and make it so everyone knows the end and knows that this is not supposed to be a sad story and rather an inspirational story and not something to mope over because that’s what he would want. He would want people to keep going and use it as inspiration.
In class today was the first time going over my speech and I think it went ok. I only had a few bullet points to start and a lot of the talking I did today came from the brain not my outline. I was given good positive feedback, saying that I had a good start and just needed to add a little more depth. This is something I’m prepared to do because it’s true, I really only have the surface level points right now and there are definitely stories and pictures I can include to make it deeper. I think that I am going to try and create a little slideshow to include pictures of my mom. I talk a lot about how similar we are even in looks so I feel like a including a picture of what she look’s like would make sense. I was told that I have a good introduction which was nice to hear, I just have to keep that energy throughout the rest of my speech now. Today was helpful to get some light feedback and I’m ready to keep working on my speech and developing it.
After doing my speech twice in front of five people I got some good feed back. I understand where I need to fix and work on more with my speech. I did notice that everyone is doing speeches of people who are alive so mine will be different compared to the rest of the class. I do need to fix it a little and add more stories to show how much he was there and important for me. I think I wanna rethink how I start it off I am a little iffy about the start but I will see once I finish the speech. Definitely need to work on a nice ending to wrap it up. Gonna adjust the tone for the speech and try to not make it so sad but to make it a happy memory I am reliving with other people.
I thought that going over the outline that I made was helpful in terms of next steps. After building this speech outline, I noticed that I hit a lot of road blocks in terms of examples or stories that I could tell. What I need to do now is go back through my outline and find out where I can group things together better, and follow those things with examples or stories of the relationship I have with my Mom. I have found that this speech will be very meaningful. I did not necessarily expect this when I was writing it. All that I was trying to do was fill in the blanks of this assignment, when I should have been writing from the heart. This is something that I will do differently for next time.
In terms of things that I might need to rethink, I could go in the direction of flow. It is important to have proper transitions and connecting points so that the speech at least appears fluent. What stopped me in this sense when I was building my initial outline was that I wanted to get all of the information that I could get down, down.
I thought that this process was more or less helpful in terms of the future. It was not that fun, but I am glad that we completed the process as a class in the little groups that we did.
I think my first rough draft was good. I didn’t want to go into full depth on experiences, stories, and lessons learned to save it for the real thing. One big feedback was going into depth would help with the lessons I learned and to help with the overall flow. I got great feedback that my speech is not a light hearted one, its different and a nice change. Also the lessons that I learned are ones that most people can relate to. I was told that my layout was good. How I started with a brood background then go into a cascade of what happened to today. I also will add more stories and details about each event, how I reacted to being in the events, and what I took away from it.
The reflection of my dry-dry run for my speech 3 was overall good and felt confident. I discovered that everyone liked my opening and closing bringing it all together and having the same topic/sentence the whole word of sacrifice and how it goes more into depth. I also think my topics are working I need to organize it better with more with a flow I personally noticed it kind of jumped over the place because I didn’t want to go full in depth, of the speech itself but I could work on that to make my point stronger. I also have to include the toast part because I was kind of unsure how to approach it at all but after hearing my classmates I understand that point more. I think I’m going to build off the commitment part and family values being the “host house”more give a story of how we are all so close and how random days in the summer there would be everyone over with music and it’s just so natural for so many people to be over and sharing positive impacts just because of my mom being so open.
After doing our first round of dry runs, I discovered a few things that I need to do to build off my draft. First, I need a stronger outline. I need to focus on having a stronger introduction and conclusion because what I had today was very scrambled and awkward. I feel like I have strong points for the body of my speech but I need to make sure my supporting details flow nicely after the opening point. I also think that I’ll be able to use fewer words in my outline because I’ll be comfortable with the topic I’m talking about, right now I have very wordy points on my outline that can definitely be adjusted. I think that the order of my speech is good, adding more detail to support my points as well as a solid intro and conclusion will be important for making the speech long enough to fill the time limit.
After talking through my dry-run with two different groups, I was able to express who I was going to be talking about for speech three. When I was talking about my person, it was more just expressing my ideas. It was very choppy and was not too formal yet. It is definitely a work in progress, but I am feeling more confident in what I want to say. I want to add specific examples to my speech to really make it as strong as possible. I am discovering that I have a lot of ideas that do not coincide with one another, so I really want to try to narrow my thoughts down and create a speech that flows naturally. My outline currently contains a lot of context and jumbled words. I would really like to edit it to create a more straight forward outline that is not so paragraph-like but contains trigger words that can assist me by talking naturally. Over all, I think I am on the right track in the speech writing process.
In today’s dry run I landed on who exactly I want to talk about. I plan on talking about my fantastic grandmother. I have a small outline currently but there are many topics that I would like to cover. This is the first step, to start jotting down ideas of things I could talk about. I have plenty of stories from childhood to adulthood that I can talk about. I plan on mixing in the funny stories with the hardships she has overcome. These hardships are the backbone behind my choice of her to be the person I look up to. Though, some of her hardships being on the more melancholy side, I do not want to make this speech into some type of funeral speech, but instead would like to explain her hardships and her willingness to fight and mix that with fun uplifting stories because that is the type of speech she would like. I think this contrast between sad and funny will have a good impact on the audience. The dry run on Friday will be very important as I will get to gauge how the contrast of sad and happy will do.
Overall my story outline was good the audience was engaged. I would try to highlight more humor and create more of a show with this. I like the relationship I have with this person and I like the feedback I got. I think the strong relationship I have with her has helped carry a message throughout my speech. Because this hits home for me adding a sense of comedy or light-hearted comments might make this speech not feel as heavy. I enjoyed hearing others and now I feel confident giving my speech since everyone else did so well. I will say my dry run was just a little more advance than most but I don’t think there’s a problem with that. I want to add more structure to my speech while adding comedy. I also want to keep it more engaging while working on my tone.
I am discovering that the very dry run was extremely helpful for all members of the group. Being able to just get our ideas out there and start small was needed in order to complete this experience. Overall, I have realized that throwing stories into it helps it work itself into an actual speech. My group members gave me really helpful feedback and now I know to go into more depth with my stories and provide a sense of humor with them as well. I need to adjust the amount of time spent on each bullet point in my speech.
After presenting a very rough draft of my version of speech 3, I am discovering that I will have a lot to talk about when it comes to who I will talk about and what they mean to me. There are a few people in my life that really mean a lot to me so trying to pick one person was hard. Before class today, I had it narrowed down to 2 important people. After giving it some thought I decided to do this speech about my mom. Even though there was a lot to talk about anyone that means a lot to me, talking about my mom in class made me realize that I can make this speech work out well. I presented a good foundation of the things I wanted to talk about. Now I will work on the next step to make a dry run draft of the speech. In order to do this, I may have to cut a few minor details out since there is so much. I will edit and build on the things that are the most important and organize them to ensure I have a good flow of my speech on what my mom means to me.
After giving my (very) dry run, I am very satisfied. It was very helpful to receive feedback from my group. I had a broad draft that I went through, and explained to my group how I was going to set up my speech and some other ideas I had to add to it. I talked about my main points of the speech, and connected them to my life experiences. My group made some helpful and supportive comments which made me more confident for the real speech. I also found it helpful to walk through my speech with 2 different groups; the more feedback, the better. I will keep adding to my outline in the meantime and developing my speech with more points and examples.
Well mostly I’m discovering that I have a really sad life, and everyone else is much further along in their outlines than I am. It seems like everyone in my groups had a clear idea of who they want to discuss and what they want to discuss about them. We all felt my idea to discuss how a persons negative behavior has positively affected how I curated my personality as I grew up. As another student in my group was also going to discuss someone from the same perspective. So I think that’s a good idea for my speech as well. So now I just need to choose a specific subject and develop an outline of specific and general scenarios and reasons why they had a significant impact on my life. I honestly still have a lot of work in front of me. I’m going to try to balance out all negative aspects with a positive one, or at least try, in an attempt to keep everything in a positive tone.
I learned that my topic so far is solid and that it’s about my grandfather. I want to involve more personal connections into my speech. I don’t know if it was keeping it secret or not wanting to be redundant but I left that out in my first dry run. After chatting with my original group I got feedback and instantly knew what I wanted to fix. My advice that was given is that I should add more personal connection or stories with my grandfather. This would show my overall lesson of caring for people. When I met with my second group we went around in a circle re-sharing our stories. Upon suggestion I added a good overall personal story about my grandfather. When I was speaking I found it easier to talk about my family member and to form that connection of caring for people with it. Originally I was worried about time and if my speech would meet the minimum, now I feel confident about my length and content.
My outline was good, little improvement needed for the chronological order of it. My speech is about my best friend of 8 years, Daniella, so the aspect of growing up together and getting through life together will play a big role in my speech. I will be revising my outline a little to support my main points and have a better structure. I was given feedback to add in the stories about the experiences we’ve shared so I will be adding in those to support my main points and add background information about who Daniella is and how she has impacted my life. I am also thinking about including a slideshow showing pictures along the way that relate to the topics I will be discussing, however that is still to be determined. Overall, I think I am in a good place for my official dry run on Friday.
I am discovering that the very dry run was extremely helpful for all members of the group. Being able to just get our ideas out there and start small was needed in order to complete this experience. Overall, I have realized that throwing stories into it helps it work itself into an actual speech. My group members gave me really helpful feedback and now I know to go into more depth with my stories and provide a sense of humor with them as well. I need to adjust the amount of time spent on each bullet point in my speech.
getting feedback on my first “dry-run” in our groups really helped not really with my ideas or what to talk about but my confidence in what i was talking about. I didnt wanna get up and give a personal speech and have it not fit in with the other students speeches. It means a lot to me to imagine who i’m speaking about in a good light but also getting across the points that i need to to be able to give my speech the way i want to.