10 minutes

by Chelsea

5/29/09---

I think the hardest thing I have ever had to do is write a speech that is ten minutes long. It’s called a Valedictorian Speech and I have to write one because I have the highest grades in the class. It needs to be about my class and our motto and tie into our education, future, and what we hope we can accomplish.

I knew that I would have to be Valedictorian and write that speech because Paul got a B+ in English at the beginning of the year. All because of a book report that he didn’t turn in. I’ve been writing this speech for about two weeks and I’m almost finished. You’d think that I’d have a lot of pages written because it’s about people that I have spent eight years of my life with but it really isn’t. I went for three whole hours of trying to work on it but never being able to write anything I liked. I was so mad that I was going to go talk to Hubbard and tell him that I refused to be Valedictorian. But then my mom came in and asked me how much I had done. I showed her a blank page.

My mom started asking me questions like what I was going to write about and stuff that had happened to my class that had to do with the speech. I told her what I was thinking and she said I should write that down. She left and I thought about it for a while when I realized she was right. It was much easier to write from then on but I would still get stuck once-and-a-while.
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6/2/09---

I finished my speech last night and just read it to Mr. Hubbard. He thought it was pretty good and said it had a lot of excellent material. He also said he liked the way I opened my speech by talking about our decisions affecting our future. He said all the stuff in my speech was true and that he really liked it. The biggest thing he had to say though isn’t so good; he said that if my theme (thesis) was my class motto (which it is) then I would have to do some changing around to make that really clear because at this point it’s not very clear.
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6/3/09

Last night I started fixing up my speech because he wanted all my changes to be done by Thursday. I’m doing pretty good but I still have some questions.