Public Speaking Experience

During a time of public speaking, you had to share something that means a lot to you. Something that you worked on hard because you wrote it from the events you seen going on and the events that has happened to you in the past. First thing you feel is the anxiety of sharing something that deep. Then you feel the nerves because you wrote it, you wrote something that explains something meaningful to you. Then you wonder how will everyone react to it, because it is who you are this a piece of you. The fear of messing up the words get to you rather if you have an accent or not. The literacy of speaking and writing is something that everyone goes through at some point of their lives rather if they want to or not. Famous book writers sometimes are …show more content…
I knew almost everybody and all the teachers I had a great group of friends because I have been there for the full four years, so it had became easier for me to do, especially since I did it for the first time already my junior year. I was more prepared and had a lot more confidence in me for this. Because I had already did this I knew what to expect and how things were going to go like it became easier for me to maneuver around on stage. And when I got the podium I was able to look more out to the crowd, even though I couldn 't see anyone I still looked out into the crowd and started to tell my poems. I was a lot more relaxed and eased because I was aware of what was going to happen and how it was happening. It was still nerve wrecking because I didn’t know how the crowd was going to respond. So, yes I was still very nervous do to that fact but after I said my poems they loved it and clapped for me. I answered the questions they had for me when it was time for questions and then after the event some people came up to me to ask me more questions. Like some of the questions was “How are you able to get on stage and perform a piece that means a lot to you?” “How do you feel when it was over with?” How do you mentally prepare for something like this?”. I answered them to the best of my ability to know let them know that I did it because I love my poems I write poems to express who I am …show more content…
One of the literacy is Literacy of power which “emphasizes a relationship between literacy and a group or community advancement” (Scribner) on page 16. When I say that I get the sense of feelings honor and pride and happiness when I do this is showing the literacy of power which is a just another way of saying that I do this to get this feeling which is true I love the feeling I get from doing that. Literacy as a State of Grace which “give a specific religious interpretation to the broad phenomenon I want to depict that is, the tendency in many societies to endow the literate person with special virtues” (Scribner,16). Which mean you do something because you want to and because you love doing it. I love writing poems I love to express myself through that way. I don’t want to stop writing poems because I love it, it keeps me calm and happy. I love seeing the reaction on people’s faces when they hear a poem I write. Sometimes, what surprises them is what I write about because it doesn’t add up to me it doesn’t show my personality with in the writings and it shocks people a lot. And I love writing because it is an easier way to express who I am with words and it’s easier for me to just free write my feelings with in a poem. That way I can use other things that has been happening with me throughout my life time to explain it to people and helps transport me to a different world with in the