POL REFLECTION
There were a couple of things that I was especially proud of when it came to my POL. Firstly, I was proud of how well my theme went. I chose the general theme of colors in order to better highlight my dualistic personality and its role in my education. I have noticed in the past that many of the best, most powerful speeches have underlying themes that keep them unified throughout the discussion. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” used the theme of dreams and religion to push home a message about the inhumanity and unreasonable oppression of people with dark skin. Theodore Roosevelt’s “ Duties of American Citizenship” uses the theme of exemplified citizens and also large amounts of gender bias in order to influence the public. I am neither of these writers and am not nearly as good as writing speeches in order to move an audience, but it is a challenge to find a great speech without a general theme. Knowing this I chose to incorporate a theme myself in order to add richness to my presentation, which I feel worked rather well. Secondly, I was proud of my analysis. We were challenged to use TEA format in order to create this speech and the aspect of TEA that I most commonly struggle with is my analysis due to the fact that in my mind my evidence explains itself rather well. I really worked in order to provide ample analysis in this POL though, in order to really exemplify why I used my evidence to describe each of my classes.
The part of my speech that I most struggled with was the time limit. I ended my POL about 30 seconds over the specified time limit. Due to my need for extended analysis, I went a little over, although I do not believe this necessarily redacted from the presentation overall. I also could have done a little better on Panel, and shown a little more interest in my peer’s presentations. I didn’t feel that I lowered my classmate’s ability to listen to the speeches with ample attention, but I personally spent a little bit more time than I probably should have to turn my pencil into a guy with a sombrero.
My smart goal for this semester was created in order to work on my perspective in my Math 1 class. I have decided to start coming to class trying to expect the best and be engaged at the beginning of class, which I how I plan to measure my growth. I, in the past, have really struggled with perspective in this class because I consistently know the subject matter before we are taught it, and I firmly believe that if I can do the problem faster and still get the right answer, why would I do it another way. What I am working to understand is that having a quiver of ways to get to the solution is almost as important as getting to the solution itself.
The part of my speech that I most struggled with was the time limit. I ended my POL about 30 seconds over the specified time limit. Due to my need for extended analysis, I went a little over, although I do not believe this necessarily redacted from the presentation overall. I also could have done a little better on Panel, and shown a little more interest in my peer’s presentations. I didn’t feel that I lowered my classmate’s ability to listen to the speeches with ample attention, but I personally spent a little bit more time than I probably should have to turn my pencil into a guy with a sombrero.
My smart goal for this semester was created in order to work on my perspective in my Math 1 class. I have decided to start coming to class trying to expect the best and be engaged at the beginning of class, which I how I plan to measure my growth. I, in the past, have really struggled with perspective in this class because I consistently know the subject matter before we are taught it, and I firmly believe that if I can do the problem faster and still get the right answer, why would I do it another way. What I am working to understand is that having a quiver of ways to get to the solution is almost as important as getting to the solution itself.