Goals: Old Accomplished & New Discovered

Hey Everyone!

Happy Halloween!

My first marking period ends on Halloween so this week has been pretty busy, despite the fact that there was no school on Monday or Tuesday. . . But we’ll leave that aside!

This week, we have to write about the goals that we set for ourselves at the beginning of the class. Remember that very first blog post where I told you about three songs and three goals? If you don’t remember, my goals were to be able to know how to act and speak when in front of a crowd, to look and be more confident when speaking in front of people and for this blog to be interesting for others.

This marking period, was a really successful one, in my opinion. I think that my presence when I’m on up on the podium is really starting to show through. When I watch over my past videos, I can really tell that towards the end of the process of learning, memorizing, and presenting each type of speaking, it gets better and better. I can tell when I got more confident and started to think about things other than just the memorization. But, I have noticed that when I haven’t really gotten to that comfortable stage, and even sometimes when I have, I start to fidget with my sleeve or something. That is one big thing that is taking away from my first goal, to know how to act in front of an audience. The fidgeting really gives away to the listeners that the speaker is kind of nervous. I think that I improved on the confidence level because once I got the hang of the poem or the monologue, I was able to relax a little more on stage. Another improvement was that adapting and trying to change through the comments of my teacher and classmates. They really helped me in many ways. They were the ones, who because they were having a hard time just like me, made me feel more comfortable in what I was doing. Their feedback really helped as well to improve and continue on with my learning.

For the next marking period, I want to work on my memorization of the speaking that we will be doing. I want to try to memorize my part faster, so I have more time to work on the other aspects of it, such as emotion, expression, and body language. In this marking period, I want to try to work on the speaking at home more, so I have that much more practice with the material. Another goal I want to accomplish is that I want to try some speaking parts that are slightly out of my comfort zone. This will help me when I have to talk about things I don’t really want to talk about. Taking myself out of my comfort zone will bring me to another whole level in terms of challenging myself. It would be harder to even choose topics to speak about. But I will take that challenge. I hope that I will be able to accomplish all of these goals in addition to maintaining the ones I have already achieved. . . Wish me luck!