This is my speech class

Informative Speech Response

2006-02-28T16:41:00.000-08:00

Wow! So this speech, I felt was a little bit more difficult than the narrative, ok, perhaps quite a bit more. To start, I couldn't come up with a topic to discuss for the life of me, I was just drawing a blank so I felt like I just settled, I don't even know where I came up with the idea for discussing organic food, but I went on my way to research it and write the speech. I wasn't even sure it could be considered a movement until so many sources did indeed refer to it as a movement and often times a "revolution" so I decided it couldn't be so bad to use it as my topic and thats what I did. The writing the speech wasn't so bad, I had fun with it, it was just that when I went to rehearse it it never really flowed, never really came off like my narative did and that was frustrating. I think that is why I was so nervous when finally delivering it in front of the class because I had a lack of confidence even with my practicing. This caused my delivery to be a little bit more choppy than I would have liked, and i used my outline intensly as a clutch, not because I didnt have pretty much memorized, but because I feared looking up, getting nervous and so forth. I still, however think it was successful.

Speeches of 2/24

2006-02-28T16:34:00.000-08:00

I excepted this set of speeches to be pretty boring, that we were going to have to sit through a lot of drawn out, boring informative speeches about something we cared little bit about, but I was all wrong. These speeches were creatively informative ranging from interesting to hilarious. I liked the speech about christmas, a topic we all think we are so informed about, and yet I didn't know a lot of that information. He also made it pretty comical which was nice and pretty refreshing, especially after the narrative speeches were a little deep. I also liked the Shakespeare speech, it was a really interesting topic I didn't know anything about and after it I felt rather well informed, like wanted to research it more perhaps, however is deliverance did feel a little bit more like a lecture than a speech but I think thats just because he memorizes it so thats just how it flows. But all in all, very good speeches.

Speech response #2

2006-02-14T15:21:00.000-08:00

So i did my speech yesterday and it was fun. Call me crazy, but I kind of enjoyed it. My biggest problem I am realizing is going to be how fast I speak. I talk so fast when I am not even nervous that when I nervous my mouth moves sometimes faster than my own thoughts. This will be something I will continually have to work on. I noticed that these set of speeches consisted of quite a few very personal, very emotional stories which were all given so well. In particular I would like to respond to Gina's speech about her Italian grandmother. I was laughing the whole time, she really trully captures her grandmother, and I would know because I have the same thing back home. The way she made me feel, actually warm as if I was with my own grandmother, I immediately pictured my own, almost spelled into believing it was her in front of me. For this to happen, Gina must have done something right.

reflecting

2006-02-12T22:39:00.000-08:00

Reflecting upon thr speeches of last friday, all them were tremendously well done and very moving, I hoping actually that my speech will live up to them. One speech that stuck out in my mind was Rachel's speech about her camping trip. Not only was it a really interesting topic to choose but she performed it so well I remember wanting to hear much more about her trip after which I think is a good sign. All in all they were really amazing speeches, again, a touch set of acts to follow.

my first speech

2006-02-09T22:57:00.000-08:00

This is my first speech and as I must assume the others are feeling, I am a bit nervous about giving it for no other reason than that i know as much as I practice it is going to be different in front of an audience of my peers. I am a bit worried my speech is kind of deep, it uses some swear words and so forth, and yet they are effective in getting the point accross. In the end I hope that people like my speech and I suppose that is all.

2006-01-23T07:30:00.000-08:00

Speech communication seems to me to be a pretty straight forward class, one that, I don't know, might aspire to enhance our public speaking skills. Or at least that is my goal in the taking of this course. Some might say I speak to fast, not loudly with unpronounced words, this is something I would like to change. I would also like to learn how to write and perform powerful speeches that will, inevitably change the world. That was a joke. I would rather just learn the basics of how to be persuasive in everyday life, skills that I will carry on throughout my life.