Oral Reflection

While I was not completely pleased with my performance, I am very happy with my oral presentation. I spent a lot of time dividing up the 12 minutes into 6, 2 minute sections. The sections were:
Name, story, summary
Themes in book
Introduction to scene
Themes in scene
Reflection
Conclusion
      I knew these may not have been divided equally. For example, I probably spent about 4 minutes on themes in scene, but only one minute on my reflection and one minute on my conclusion. Because of this, I was very aware of time in my oral presentation. In the first practice, my plan backfired. At some points I found myself simply listing bullet points, and being unable to think of anything else to say. Hence, the first run through was only ten minutes. However, once I realized my mistake, the actual oral presentation was much better. I made sure to elaborate on every bullet point, and not move on from one topic until at least a minute and a half was up. I also tried to make sure I was making up for lost time in some sections by adding time to others.
     I believe that I did a good job of talking about every aspect of my scene, but I will admit that I wish I talked more about literary features specifically. We really focused on themes, not so much the very small literary features. If I could, I would have worked more on that in our overall scene so I would have had more to say in my oral presentation. However, I did focus a lot on themes. I also consider Danticat’s combination of fantasy and reality as borderline literary device, so I hope that kind of counted. I definitely thought less about exact literary features in this adaptation than I did in Romeo and Juliet.