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I have a demonstrative speech to do on Saturday and I have no freaking clue what to do it on.
I was going to do it on "how to bathe a chinchilla" for a few reasons: cuteness, easiness, and it would prompt me to walk around a bit more, which was the one big critique my teacher gave me for my first speech. But Dexter and Ramona are both being a bit temperamental -- Dexter will let me hold him but just wants to run around when I put him down instead of staying in the plastic container I put him in to bathe, and Ramona will roll around in the dust but wriggles like crazy when I picked her up -- so that idea went out the window pretty quickly.
Now, after the first speech in which we spoke about some unique fact about ourselves -- mine was my writing -- the teacher spoke about what our demonstrative speech should involve and threw out a few examples using some of the unique facts from our introductory speech. At one point while throwing out "how to" ideas, she gestured my way and said, "You could do a speech on 'how to get published.'"
It sort of became my back-up idea, but now I'm not so sure -- partly because I'm already doing enough worrying over publishing stuff without turning it into a grade, partly because I feel weird writing a speech about "how to publish a book" when I'm going the self-publishing route, at least with this book.
And I absolutely do NOT want to do the "how to make this delicious snack" speech, since I imagine a lot of people are going to be doing "how to make chocolate chip cookies" or "how to make a peanut butter sandwich" or whatever, because that's sort of the default example the teacher kept using.
Sooooo, uh, anybody got any suggestions? Because I'm drawing a blank.
I was going to do it on "how to bathe a chinchilla" for a few reasons: cuteness, easiness, and it would prompt me to walk around a bit more, which was the one big critique my teacher gave me for my first speech. But Dexter and Ramona are both being a bit temperamental -- Dexter will let me hold him but just wants to run around when I put him down instead of staying in the plastic container I put him in to bathe, and Ramona will roll around in the dust but wriggles like crazy when I picked her up -- so that idea went out the window pretty quickly.
Now, after the first speech in which we spoke about some unique fact about ourselves -- mine was my writing -- the teacher spoke about what our demonstrative speech should involve and threw out a few examples using some of the unique facts from our introductory speech. At one point while throwing out "how to" ideas, she gestured my way and said, "You could do a speech on 'how to get published.'"
It sort of became my back-up idea, but now I'm not so sure -- partly because I'm already doing enough worrying over publishing stuff without turning it into a grade, partly because I feel weird writing a speech about "how to publish a book" when I'm going the self-publishing route, at least with this book.
And I absolutely do NOT want to do the "how to make this delicious snack" speech, since I imagine a lot of people are going to be doing "how to make chocolate chip cookies" or "how to make a peanut butter sandwich" or whatever, because that's sort of the default example the teacher kept using.
Sooooo, uh, anybody got any suggestions? Because I'm drawing a blank.
