Parting is such sweet sorrow…

Hard to believe we have made it through all of our speeches not with 20 students but 26 because we kept everyone. All I can say is that it was fun and a wonderful experience that I am glad I didn’t put off because if I did then I wouldn’t have had a wonderful teacher like Candee. Good luck to everyone wether it be continued with classes in the summer and fall or you are graduating this weekend or starting a new job. For the ones who will be here in the fall I will see you then. Hope everyone has a great summer and again good luck wherever life takes you. Hope our paths cross again at some point.

Dottie

My visual reflection on…

For my visual reflection I decided to try to reflect what everyone in the 2:20- 3:45 class has done there speeches on so far. In the center is what I have done my speeches on so far and I am still thinking on my topic for my last speech. Mostly everything on my board is a reflect of the informative speeches and demo speeches.

If you want to know what each piece means feel free to comment and I will explain each piece and why I selected them. Anyways one more speech and then we all will part ways with some of us graduating and others continuing on with other classes but I will leave you all with this…

We all were nervous coming into this class some of us put it off til last-minute but now with it over all we can say is goodbye and good luck to each other and that speech class wasnt that scary after all.

-Dottie L.

Not as planned

So my informative speech didn’t go as I planned it to. Its my own fault. I felt like I could have prepared it better than I did. On a side note though I did better on volume then anything. Which was one of my main concerns.

I am excited more about my demonstrative speech then anything which I feel I will nail it better than all. I can’t wait to get started on them and see what everyone will come up with. I will close with only a month to go til classes including finals are over. Hard to believe, I feel as if it has gone by fast.

Dottie L.

Less traveled by…old men… and darkness

When I was choosing my reading at first I wasn’t going to read any of my own work. I started off just picking from Robert Frost work but I couldn’t find anything long enough so I then added some Alice Walker to the mix and it still wasn’t long enough. Then I decided to make it personal with my own work from my senior year in high school. Which made a lot of difference to me.

By the time I got all of this chosen, it was Tuesday and time to listen/ watch everyone give their speech which I was feeling alright because mine wasn’t until Thursday. Once Thursday rolled around and I watched the three before me go I knew the list was getting shorter to my name. I wasn’t really nervous till it was my turn to stand up there alone not presenting a poster but my own work along with some pieces from Alice Walker and Robert Frost. Once over and reading all of the reviews I felt better. I found that I can take things that everyone commented on into the next speech we have to give and I will be able to give it with more confidence and louder hopefully.

Dottie

2 weeks in…

When class first started I didn’t know what to expect. Only thing I did expect was it was going to be fun because Candee some how makes it easy. At least for me. I was always told I talk to much or too soft or too fast. When I get in front of a audience its like I totally freeze up loose all train of thought.

I love how the we get in groups and talk about the homework and create a poster. I feel by doing this it is helping at least me if not others to build up towards being up there all alone. Hopefully when that time comes my mind doesn’t run away in reverse. If I could have put this class off I probably would have but now 2 weeks in I feel fine and curious of what we all will do our speeches about. I am use to being in front of large audience because I use to be in clogging. I may be use to it that way but when it comes to speaking to a large group it seems totally different even tho sometimes I would help lead the group if they forgot some of the steps to the dance. Maybe I will do one of my speeches on this who knows yet. Hopefully everything eases up and this will become easier and easier as the weeks fly by into summer.

Dottie