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= Reflection on my persuasive speech=

Our task was to make a speech persuading people about donating for our own organizations, so we had to insert many persuasive devices such as rhetorical questions, and emotive language. Actually I had shorter time to work on my speech compared to the other students in the class. My final speech wasn’t long enough to make about a minute and a half. So I had to persuade people in a quite short time, and to do that I had to put those persuasive speeches. Actually my speech didn’t include many persuasive devices. When I introduce about my organization, I think some lists of words are needed, and when I explain about what happened in Haiti few weeks ago it would be better if I put emotive languages in it. But I didn’t use much of them so far. For next time, I have to make sure to use more persuasive devices to clear my opinion. For a speech, it is better if a person saying speak in clear and loud voice. I think I spoke in fairly clear voice. But Eye-contact was hard because I had to read through the cue cards in my hands. I didn’t memorize the speech through, and that’s why I had to read through the cards and it made me difficulties to eye-contact with people. For my English speech, I think it would be much better to eye-contact with other people listening.

=Outline, mind map and rough draft of my book review=


The first paragraph
 * information about the background of the story and some information of author

around 1930s in America, the segregation is well shown in this book The second paragraph
 * a little information of the story and the reason that the author writes it.

The third paragraph
 * my feeling and opinion about the book

The book was very sad and I don't like the ending which is Tom dies.

The fourth paragraph (the conclusion)
 * Mention all the contents briefly that I wrote through the second and third paragraph.

The Book Review, To Kill A Mocking Bird
1930 is the year that black people experienced horrible discrimination in America. They shouldn’t be seated on the same place as white people seat in restaurant and bus. Because they were thought to be the lowest class, they had to acquiesce only to white people. Separated toilets, seats, schools…etc. Everything had to be differed from the white. Harper Lee, an American author wants to show what happened to the black people exactly though out her story and because she’s saying the human rights for black people, she is awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom. Tom Robinson, the black man in the story will show the victims they got from the discrimination.

Harper Lee wants to show how unfair the rule was going on in 1930s in America. Tom Robinson is a normal black guy who is discriminated by white but once, he is pointed as the culprit of raping the white woman. Actually the woman made up the story out that Tom raped her. Both woman and her dad say the wrong representation in the trial. Atticus, the father of Jem and Scout (primary students) defends Tom Robinson in the trial. The people in the town blame him of defending the black guy, because they thought he is betraying white and loving the nigger. Atticus doesn’t change his mind at all but instead finds the evidence that Tom isn’t the guy who raped the woman. In the trial, Atticus brings the indisputable evidence but he loses it. With the certain evidence that Tom isn’t the criminal, it didn’t matter at that time. Harper Lee is saying that black people were so weak having no any power to resist the fact to white.

This book teaches me the American history by showing one specific example of what happened and also it gives me the chance to think about this situation. “To Kill a Mockingbird” is the sad story. At the end, Tom dies in the jail by the policemen. They shoot him when he tries to escape the jail. Obviously I don’t like this ending, which makes him very pathetic. All readers including me know that Tom Robinson is innocent but he is the victim of this trial, which makes the story very sad. I’m sure that there would be lots of black people experienced the same thing or more than this in the past. Reading this book during the break was the chance to think about the history to me.

“To Kill a Mockingbird” written by Harper Lee is very impressing. The history of killing innocent people shouldn’t repeat again in the future. By telling Tom’s story, an author is making the point that it was actually too cruel. Now the segregation is still going on in somewhere. By reading this book, people supposed to stop what they are doing and consider a lot at the black people’s sides. =My Pronunciation Poem~=