- TO BEGIN: Create a Speech Three page and copy and paste the questions/sections below in the page and answer these questions in detail.
- THINK: Who is this person and why are they significant? Make a list of people you might like to talk about and list some adjectives to describe them. Consider how comfortable and capable you are discussing someone if they are no longer alive.
- BRAINSTORM: What other stories or anecdotes can you think of? Continue to add depth to your outline/speech. (Writing a draft of a toast for your “person,” even if you are not composing a toast, might help shape your speech.) Imagine that this is a SKETCH.
- NARROW: Pick one person and focus on what you think your audience should know about this person.
- STRUCTURE: Lay out 3 clear parts on paper: Intro, Body, Conclusion and start to budget the time your will spend delivering each part.
- IN MOTION: Draft, add, subtract, practice, revise, repeat. This speech, like all the others, is meant to evolve as you keep working with it throughout the week.
THINK:
Potential Subjects –
Mom – commanding, respectful, knowledgeable, caring, helpful, supportive (COMFORTABLE)
Dad – knowledgeable, intrusive, commanding, respect-demanding, innovative, optimistic, supportive (COMFORTABLE)
Grandfather – crafty/creative, practical, wise, respectful, capable, supportive (COMFORTABLE)
Grandmother – traditional, wise, intellectually strong, supportive (COMFORTABLE)
BRAINSTORM/NARROW:
Mom – I am choosing to construct an outline and to deliver a speech about my Mother, Tanya. I decided to pick one of my immediate family members because it’s the easiest option to pursue and I would have more to say about someone in my family than one of my friends, just as an example. I will flesh out the rest of the content that I will be including in my speech in the outline that will be created in the next section.
Outline Draft One:
Journal: IN-CLASS #1
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.
Journal: WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN? #1
My speech is not taking the form of a toast, eulogy or anything of the sort. Rather, it is a collection of reasons that show why I am grateful for my mom. The way I have organized the points that I will be touching on make the speech flow and build as it goes. I will begin by describing her importance in my life and how grateful I am to have her in it. Next, I will go into why her qualities are important to me, and finally wrap it up showing how grateful I am for her. I think this works really well in terms of structure, but I may want to make it fit in to a category mentioned in the chapter or in the assignment description.
I guess my challenge would be going into detail about what I am really talking about. I am not foreign to the feelings that I know would come up if I chose to go in full-depth, but I am a little nervous about that aspect for sure. At this point I have fully developed my second outline, so I will deliver the speech next time and see where that experience takes me. All of that said, I do feel great about giving this speech.
Journal: IN-CLASS #2 (MISSED)
Dry-Run Video (MISSED)
Outline Draft Two:
Journal: WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN? #2
I did not attend class on the Friday before break, so, this journal is going to be rather challenging to write. I practiced my speech over the break once or twice to avoid any horrible delivery that I might have given if I did not rehearse. My speech is taking the form of a speech, one that has main points with sub points and even a couple of short stories in there. The idea is that my speech will have at least one of the people in the audience’s attention, most likely Jesse’s. I am not toasting my Mom, nor am I going over what I could have done differently if she were still alive, because she is still alive. This speech is simply going to go over the undying respect and gratitude that I have for my mother. I have no plans on elevating my speech past where I have built it up to. This is super tedious.
Journal: Reflection as a Whole
