Today I am going to write about some people at Durand School that had given me or my team speeches this past week. The first speech was given by my volleyball coach to my cheer team. The other speech or conversation that I had was between the cheerleading team and our athletic director. Both speeches were unique in their own way. Both were very serious. I even had to use my speech skills that I learned in class for one of them.
The first speech I was given was during the regional championship volleyball game on October 31st. During timeouts, our coach would come over to us and tell us what we were doing wrong and what we needed to do to fix it. We had won the first match, so there wasn’t much to talk about during that game. The second match was very close, but we ended up losing. After we lost that match, our coach came over to us and got us all going so that we wouldn’t get down on ourselves. She had used a lot of curse words, but that just got us even more pumped about our last game. She got all of us going by giving just a short one minute speech. The final game was not good. The coach for the other team did not play fair. We ended up losing in a close match. Our coach talked to us again in the locker room and that speech made every single member of our team cry. It’s amazing how a speech can make a person feel.
The other speech that I had to give was to our athletic director about who was going to be hired as our cheerleading coach. The whole cheer team and I went to talk to him. I had a list of main points and gave a very compelling speech. I think I might have persuaded him to go with what I think is the better option, and I might have gotten him to agree to get us new uniforms as well. I tried my best to give a “mini” persuasive speech and I think it may have worked.
This week was full of speeches for me. Not only were we giving speeches during class, but I also had a few of speeches given outside of class. There were more speeches that I heard or gave this week, but in order to write about them, it would probably end up being a 12 page essay.
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