Self Evaluation #3, our last one, ever.

Putting aside that this last speech evaluation is based on our last speech, I want to do an overall speech evaluation on my whole progress in the class. Coming into this class, I had expected to be scared to the point of sometimes not even coming on speech days. With putting in the back of my mind how I really need to pass this class and everyone is going to have to do a speech anyways, that gave me the confidence in going to speech days and not making myself stay home and receive no grade at all.

With my first and second speeches, I believe I didn't do fairly well as my last speech. With my first speech, I can say I did good, but when second speeches came, I felt really embarrassed I had just presented my speech that way. Getting sick the week of a speech was the worst for me. I had gotten a fever and a sore throat the week of that speech and wasn't better enough to do my speech. I had to suck it up because I know I'm ready, but my body wasn't.

This last speech we recently did, I had a tremendous time doing it. I really did. I am confident and sure that I achieved the purpose of this speech by just the audience's reactions coming back towards me. I could feel the energy of the room from the excitement and laughter that they loved from my speech. I honestly, going into the classroom on our last speech day, I was really nervous even more than my first and second speech. I don't know why but that's how I felt. I was sort of mad I got number ten on the order that I'd present, but that's okay, I got more time to prepare a little bit from waiting.
Once I got up and did my speech, I forgot all about my note cards and just started talking. I’m sure you could tell because I sort of just felt like I was talking to a big group rather than doing a speech. But, isn’t a speech supposed to be talking to a big group of people?
I felt accomplished in my last speech; I knew I had done a great job for my audience. I can honestly say if I had done it again, I don’t think it would be as good as the first time I did it. Going up for my last speech, I didn’t feel like I had the confidence in myself but once I got up there, I got this whole huge confidence boost because I knew what my topic was all about and I could relate to it so much.
From this speech compared to my other speech, my last one in my opinion was bad, I read over the note cards more than I looked up. This speech was better and good because I didn’t rely on my note cards so much, or even at all. This was definitely an improvement from my last speech and I didn’t do anything distracting. My eye contact on my last speech had to be around an eight at least. I would give myself, not being cocky, an 8. I know I did well and if I asked my classmates, they would say the same thing.
I know the source citations in my speech were from myself mostly because this speech was hard to find sources for, not like other speeches. This speech, I’ll say it again was definitely better than my other two speeches. I performed the best in this speech and I’ll miss doing speeches.