Reflection on Oral

My oral presentation was not perfect, but I think it was successful enough. Before the official presentation was done, I tried it in the practice and knew that what should be more improved.

In the practice, I started my presentation by giving my summary of the book and my understanding of the two stories I chose. Then I found that I didn't mention the most important reason why I chose Children of the Sea and Caroline's Wedding into my adaptation. There was a connection between these two stories, and this was the main reason why our group wanted to adapt them into our version. After talking about the text, I started talking about how our group chose to connect the stories on stage. I mentioned that we used the story from Children of the Sea as a flashback, and Caroline's Wedding as the main plot. However, I didn't clearly clarify why we created this flashback. Then I went directly discussing about how our group set up the stage and what did we have for each scene. After that, I started analyzing my character, discussing about how I portrayed Caroline by using my body languages and different movements on stage. Then I mentioned some of the difficulties we met during the rehearsals and the performance. I felt like my conclusion part was a little vague because I did not really connect it to my opening when I was talking about how I interpreted Danticat’s book.

As a result, I made some revisions before the official presentation was done. In the final presentation, I clarified the strong relationship between the stories Children of the Sea and Caroline’s Wedding and therefore illustrating my main idea of my understanding of the texts. I also tried to make my conclusion more specific and related it to the opening of the oral. Still I was a little nervous during the official oral time, I was not able to dig deeply of my explanation of our adaptation; and I was also afraid that I would run out of time, so I didn’t talk more about the analysis and the conclusion parts.

Overall, the presentation I gave expressed most of the thing that I wanted to say. It was not perfect, but at least it made sense.