This document provides tips and strategies for memorizing a speech through advanced preparation and rehearsal. It recommends breaking the speech into smaller sections and building it up piece by piece through repeated recitation. Memorizing speeches requires speaking it out loud multiple times, identifying key points, taking breaks during memorization, recording oneself, and using note cards for practice. Proper memorization allows one to deliver the written words from memory confidently on stage.
This document provides tips and strategies for memorizing a speech through advanced preparation and rehearsal. It recommends breaking the speech into smaller sections and building it up piece by piece through repeated recitation. Memorizing speeches requires speaking it out loud multiple times, identifying key points, taking breaks during memorization, recording oneself, and using note cards for practice. Proper memorization allows one to deliver the written words from memory confidently on stage.
This document provides tips and strategies for memorizing a speech through advanced preparation and rehearsal. It recommends breaking the speech into smaller sections and building it up piece by piece through repeated recitation. Memorizing speeches requires speaking it out loud multiple times, identifying key points, taking breaks during memorization, recording oneself, and using note cards for practice. Proper memorization allows one to deliver the written words from memory confidently on stage.
This document provides tips and strategies for memorizing a speech through advanced preparation and rehearsal. It recommends breaking the speech into smaller sections and building it up piece by piece through repeated recitation. Memorizing speeches requires speaking it out loud multiple times, identifying key points, taking breaks during memorization, recording oneself, and using note cards for practice. Proper memorization allows one to deliver the written words from memory confidently on stage.
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MEMORIZED
DENISE SEES THE FLEECE,
DENISE SEES THE FLEAS. AT LEAST DENISE COULD SNEEZE AND FEED AND FREEZE THE FLEAS THERE WAS A FISHERMAN NAMED FISHER WHO FISHED FOR SOME FISH IN A FISSURE. TILL A FISH WITH A GRIN, PULLED THE FISHERMAN IN. SIX SICK HICKS NICK SIX SLICK BRICKS WITH PICKS AND STICKS. THE SIXTH SICK SHEIK’S SIXTH SHEEP’S SICK. SHE SELLS SEA-SHELLS ON THE SEA- SHORE. THE SHELLS SHE SELLS ARE SEA- SHELLS, I’M SURE. BETTY BOTTER BOUGHT A BIT OF BUTTER. THE BUTTER BETTY BOTTER BOUGHT WAS A BIT BITTER AND MADE HER BATTER BITTER. IRISH WRISTWATCH, SWISS WRISTWATCH. I WISH TO WASH MY IRISH WRISTWATCH WHICH WRISTWATCHES ARE SWISS WRISTWATCHES? HOW MUCH WOOD WOULD A WOODCHUCK CHUCK IF A WOODCHUCK COULD CHUCK WOOD? HE WOULD CHUCK, HE WOULD, AS MUCH AS HE COULD OLD MOTHER HUNT HAD A ROUGH CUT PUNT NOT A PUNT CUT ROUGH, BUT A ROUGH CUT PUNT. PAD KID POURED CURD PULLED COLD. I’M A MOTHER PHEASANT PLUCKER, I PLUCK MOTHER PHEASANTS. I’M THE MOST PLEASANT MOTHER PHEASANT PLUCKER TO EVER PLUCK A MOTHER PHEASANT. DESCRIPTION •Speaking with advanced preparation •Planned and rehearsed speech •Reciting a written message word-for-word from memory SPEAKING SITUATIONS • When you perform in a stage play • When you deliver a declamation, oratorical, or literary piece • When an actor or actress in a scene performs a script from memory ADVANTAGES • Exact repetition of the written words from memory • Free to move around the stage DISADVANTAGES • Speakers might end up speaking in a monotone pattern. Alternatively, he/she might take a fast pace. • When the speaker cannot control his/her stage fright, he/she might have difficulty remembering his/her memorized speech. TIPS • Rehearse the speech over and over again until you sound natural and feel confident. • Observe how actors/actresses perform their script in a theater, television, or movie scenes. TIPS IN MEMORIZING A SPEECH • 1. Break it down! You cannot memorize a speech in one sitting. If your speech has four paragraphs, you should focus on one paragraph at a time. Once you have memorized the first paragraph, focus on the next one. TIPS IN MEMORIZING A SPEECH • 2. Build it up! After memorizing the speech in snippets, you need to put them together. Recite the first paragraph and move on to the second. After this, recite the first and second paragraphs and move on to the third. The next thing you know, you have completed your speech. TIPS IN MEMORIZING A SPEECH •3. Speak out! Do not memorize the speech silently. When you recite your speech over and over while memorizing it, your brain multitasks and aids your memory retention. TIPS IN MEMORIZING A SPEECH •4. Identify keys! Identify a key point in every paragraph. Even if you miss out some of the words in the actual speech delivery, you can easily expound on the key points. TIPS IN MEMORIZING A SPEECH •5. Have a break! After memorizing some parts of your speech, take a break for some hours or for a day. After this, recite the speech again. This will test how well you can recall what you think you have memorized. TIPS IN MEMORIZING A SPEECH •6. Record and listen! Record yourself delivering the speech and listen to it over and over again. Like a song, the speech will get stuck in your head. TIPS IN MEMORIZING A SPEECH •7. Use note cards! Write one key point on one note card. Bring these note cards wherever you go and take them out whenever you have extra time to memorize, especially during idle times of the day. Invictus BY WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.