This past week, I was supposed to give an oral presentation to my english class.
Here's the grading rubric:
NAME_______________________________
MR. CHAMBERS
SECTION____________________________
DATE_______________________________
FRESHMEN ORAL PRESENTATION GRADING RUBRIC
_______ 25 POINTS: PREPARATION (Overall Preparedness when dealing with the story)
_______ 20 POINTS: STAYING WITHIN TIME CONSTRAINTS (3-4 minutes)
_______ 10 POINTS: EYE CONTACT
_______ 10 POINTS: ARTICULATION OF WORDS
_______ 10 POINTS: LACK OF NERVOUSNESS
_______ 5 POINTS: INTRODUCTION
_______ 5 POINTS: CONCLUSION
_______ 5 POINTS: PROFESSIONALISM
_______ 5 POINTS: LACK OF UNTIMELY PAUSES
_______ 5 POINTS: LACK OF SLANG WORDS (ie. like, um, thing)
Well, me being an idiot, I didn't prepare well enough. I stood in front of the class feeling confident, only to forget nearly everything I had written. I had to go off my head, but that didn't work as I had planned. I wanted to bury myself in the floor. It was dreadful with a capital "D". I don't need to get into the grade...
The next day my dad found out via the internet. Well, he wasn't happy and proceeded to yell at me. It was rather surprising and strange, he usually doesn't go off on me. We spent the rest of the night not speaking, it was horrible.
So much for my first blog...
Subject: Oral Presentation embarassment 
Sat May 17, 2008 10:20 am
