Reflection on Speech Class

As I considered choosing speech towards the end of my first college experience, I decided, “why not take a jump, and just go for it?” So I did. With taking college algebra, art appreciation, and an online course as well I feared that adding a speech class would become over whelming, however it did not. I believe while making my decision to take a fifteen week course of speech through Holly in Daytona Beach was an important decision my success in the class. Instead of having a speech a week, (for a seven week course of speech) it was more like a couple a month. This gave us time to go over concepts, to be involved in small activities (more support for our grade) that related to the speeches coming up. These activities went along with the speech, and I found that those helped us make the connection as of how they related. For example, the commercial speech where we had to sell something. I believe that concept of selling a product, helped me grasp my understanding of the next speech, which was the persuasive speech. More so, as a class Mrs. Hollins told us, she did not want us to just want this class to be over, and not to think that once we leave we will never talk again (even if that is the case), but she wanted us to connect with our classmates. I believe that helped my confidence. As when I had to go up in the front of the room and talk for 4 to 8 minutes, that and the practice from over the course of going up in front of the room so much. My teacher was more like a friend, as she told us she had some sticklers for teachers and they would point out the bad, so she understood and remembered that pressure. Whereas, this teacher, she would smile and just listen. It was like she did not even have a grade book in front of her. I really liked that feeling. As well as my confidence as being a speaker improving, I felt my understanding of people improved as well. Being in the audience had an interesting feel. I would be listening to all the speakers scheduled for that