My book is called Bystander. It follows the life of a young boy named Eric who is new to Bellport, Long Island. As a seventh grader it is scary to move to a new school, especially if you do not know anybody going into it. Early in the book, he becomes “friends” with the school bully and his followers. This however was a big mistake. He gets himself into uncomfortable positions where he has to decide to stand up to Griffin (the bully) or stand behind him. My presentation took place on October ninth. Going into the presentation I was a little nervous because of the fact that I did not properly prepare. I did have a notecard with a number of bulleted points to talk about. However, they could have been a bit more organized. My goals for this speech
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One of them being how easy it was to follow. I picked easy information to understand while still being very important. I gave just enough information so my audience knew what was going on, but not too much to where they stopped paying attention. Another strength being the life in my voice. I had passion about what I was talking about and actually enjoyed it. Another aspect I did well on was eye contact. I looked at every person in the audience making them feel like I was talking to them individually. Finally, I used several gestures. Using gestures while talking is very uncomfortable to me. I like to talk with my hands in my pockets. However, in this speech I did a much better job talking with my hands than in any other of my speeches.
WEAKNESSES
Just like how I had plenty of strengths, there are definitely still things I need to work on. My speech would have gone so much better if I was better organized and practiced more. I kind of just threw some important information together without thinking about everything that should be included in the speech. The information I included was really good, however I just needed to add more and organize it better. Lastly, at points in my speech I talked too fast and repeated several phrases.
One of them being how easy it was to follow. I picked easy information to understand while still being very important. I gave just enough information so my audience knew what was going on, but not too much to where they stopped paying attention. Another strength being the life in my voice. I had passion about what I was talking about and actually enjoyed it. Another aspect I did well on was eye contact. I looked at every person in the audience making them feel like I was talking to them individually. Finally, I used several gestures. Using gestures while talking is very uncomfortable to me. I like to talk with my hands in my pockets. However, in this speech I did a much better job talking with my hands than in any other of my speeches.
WEAKNESSES
Just like how I had plenty of strengths, there are definitely still things I need to work on. My speech would have gone so much better if I was better organized and practiced more. I kind of just threw some important information together without thinking about everything that should be included in the speech. The information I included was really good, however I just needed to add more and organize it better. Lastly, at points in my speech I talked too fast and repeated several phrases.