Self Eval. #3

It was the day of the last & final speech, and I felt as nervous as the first speech. I felt those butterflies in my stomach & I felt as if I wanted to vomit once I woke up due to my nervousness. I did not practice as much as I wanted to for the final speech, so I did not know what to expect when it was my time to speak. I was the sixth speaker & I was glad because I just wanted to get it over with ASAP! While all the speakers before me had finished their speech I was getting more anxious to go up. I was a bit excited to share the information I had & I wanted to persuade my audience that animal testing was wrong & shouldn't be supported. Once I was up I was still nervous, but I wanted my information to come out strong so I hyped myself up to have a good positive energy.

I believe that I did achieve my purpose, which was not to support animal testing. I could tell in people's faces during the speech that they were disgusted by the pictures of the tortured animals, which I knew were strong images because it affected me drastically. Most of the feedback I got were positive. People said my information & visual images were strong, my delivery was passionate, and one person even said that I opened up their eyes to animal testing, which they never realized before. When I read that I felt very proud of myself because not a lot of people know about animal testing & that is why I wanted to speak about it.

In my performance overall, I think that I deserve a B because I did everything that was asked for this speech. I gave out 4 different sources, and I probably mentioned them 6 times throughout the speech. My eye contact had gotten better since my first speech. I give myself a 8 in eye contact because I looked around the room, & not in one spot. I also tried to glance at my notecards, but I did have to read off my notecards because of the many quotes I had used. I just wished I had time to practice more because I did go over the time limit, so I had to cut out a lot of information, which I wanted to share with the class.

What was different from the final speech, and the last speech I had was that I felt more nervous on the final one. The last speech was on a make-up day so I felt more comfortable & confident on that day. I was more nervous for the final speech because I didn't practice, & I knew more people had to be there because it was the final speech. I believe that I did a better job of using sources in my final speech than my last speech. I used more quotes & statistics that were relevant to my topic. I don't think I did anything distracting in the final speech. I knew on the last speech my hair was a problem, so on the final speech I had a clip ready for my hair.

On the final speech, I was pretty surprised that I was as calm as I was standing in front of the class. There was a tremble in my voice, and my throat was dry, but I cared more about the information I wanted to give out to persuade the class. Based on all my three speeches, I would say that the second speech was the best. I think I did better on the second speech because I was more comfortable, calm, & confident since there were only about 5 people there! But I was most proud of my final speech :]