It's safe to say that public speaking is something each and every student in Ms. Dellapa's higher level English class is a master at. Unfortunately, I missed the final speeches that were presented on the last day but nevertheless - regarding the ones I have seen - Jana's speech was most persuasive.
2) What made it persuasive? Inspiring delivery? Topic? Rhetorical techniques?
What made Jana's speech persuasive was that she had a very strong and inspiring delivery. Additionally, I loved the way she took it to a personal level, it almost had me in tears. It isn't easy for people to talk about themselves especially in a not so positive way and seeing Jana do that was so beautiful and inspiring and it made her speech that much more real and persuasive. She had numerous other good things in her speech including her tone of voice and the loudness and clearness of the way words were portrayed.
3) What do you think you did well?
I think what I did well in my speech was my use of rhetorical questions, as well as my use of metaphors when I asked the audience to imagine their children as "lab rats". In addition, I also believe that my tone of voice was relevant to the topic of the speech and I portrayed my speech with a passion.
4) What could you have done better?
In terms of what I could do better, I believe that if I had been less shy, I could look up to the audience and less at the paper. I was looking at the paper a lot, not because i didn't have my speech memorized, but instead because i was trying to avoid eye contact with my audience. Strong speech deliverer's are supposed to have good and strong eye contact with their audience and i believe that this was a main factor i need to work on for future speech's.
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