Top 3 topics

1) college should be free.

2) drinking age should be lowered to 18

3) are video games should be illegal. 

Debate questions

1) death penalty should be abolished

2) technology is good or bad.

3) college should be free.

4) all students should take an online course.

5) human cloning should be banned

My monologue Fight Club

This monologue actually challenged me to talk because my character has to be angry and loud. I am as a person not that loud to talk or shout but I had to figure out how could I act like him to make my monologue perfect. I tried a lot of times by myself to be like him. I finally achieved to be loud and angry for my monologue. When I got loud it inspired me to get mad more because I could actually act like my character. Also I had an issue which is to remember my lines in the monologue. It was not that long monologue but when you try to act it. All your concentration moves on to the acting because it is hard to act. So I try to memorize my lines. It also has rules which I have to count those rules. When I started to memorizing it. I mostly forget to count the rules, I try to start with the rule without counting it. I had to stop doing it because it affected my monologue to be not as serious as it was when I count them. I made it really good for my final. I hope I will act it because when I get there I always mess things up because I get nervous when I get up in front of my class mates. For my final I want to get better and finish my monologue with a good grade because this monologue was actually fun for me. I feel like my weakness are that I try to get loud and act more then I memorize so I should keep them in the same track so I would do great. I have to move my hands and my body instead of putting my hand in my pocket. So I should act more and act real like how the character does in the movie. This procedure took me for like a week to act and memorize. Now I just have to act in front of my class mates to get good feedback. So my monologue would look better. That's the why I will try my best to look perfect when I get up there. My strongests are that I can actually act like the character in the movie. I got that characteristics. Also I can actually shout and be loud enough for people to get my emotion and people can understand why am I trying to tell them and they can feel how serious I am to make them feel my emotion. I still should work for it to get better to get everyone's attention. I hope I will improve my skill on public speaking because when I get up in front of people I always get nervous and could not do what I have to do. That's why I have to get in front of people to do it because it would be good practice for everyone. Last time when I got in front of the school. I was so bad to announce because I talked so fast. I should've do better than what I have done because I was so scared that's why I want to improve my skills to get that confidence to talk in front of a lot of people. So after that I can feel relaxed and ready to announce with out having issues when I get up there and talk to people. 

https://youtu.be/JHVxYCjjkMw

In class writing

My character who is Tyler Durden. He established a club where you can fight and get over with your stress. He calls that club "the Fight Club." So in my monologue he talk about the rules to be the part of the fight club. So in his monologue he has a strong and anger voice on him. When he explains all the rules he wants everyone to listen to him. He has an anger on people in the club that's why his voice is so loud. 

Monologue video

In my class, I had to present my who am I? monologue which I was not really ready to present because I was really nervous to come up and explain myself to the people in my class. In the first time when we started to doing this assignment. I knew that I would struggle with talking in front of my class mates because I really get nervous when I am talking in front of my class mates. I do not really know how to stay strong and confidence to talk infront of them. After while we had to pair up and do practice with our pairs then I got that confidence to talk in front of my class mates. After those practices, I was felling that I was ready to go. Then I started to correct my monologue which I needed to time it and put better details in it. I changed most of my monologue later. It affect me to lose some of the words. Then I started to work on my memorizing which I believed that I could've do that in 15 minutes. It took me almost 30 minutes to remember all the thing. So I should work on my memorizing. After that it was our last chance to present and get the grade. I felt ready to go and present the whole thing. I did not know that I would actually get any problem to do things. Then when I get up, I messed up my monologue for little that I forget some that's why I stopped sometimes which affect me to lose time little bit. I was actually nervous in the beginning because everyone wanted me to get up. Then I wanted to study little bit more to get that confidence to get up and do my thing. Then suddenly I just felt like doing it again. Then I got up and started to doing it. I think I did good in the second time because I was actually had that confidence to talk. I moved little bit that I should've work on it more. I will work on to memorize and get that confidence in the first time because I believe that I can do better after that. Now I picked hard monologue which I believe is going to challenge me to memorize it. So I should work on my memorizing this time and then I can get confidence later to represent it in the class. I hope I will do good this time to get good grade and better scores. I have to push myself to learn lesson and fix the mistakes to get better grades which I believe that it is not that hard to do. If I can fix those then I will be fine to do other monologues better than these ones. Also I believe that I have to believe myself when I get infront of my class mates. So I can talk infront of the crowd because I have to get and announce something infront of whole school in school meeting next week. 

Monologue

Welcome to Fight Club. 

The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. 

The second rule of Fight Club is: you DO NOT talk about Fight Club! 

Third rule of Fight Club: if someone yells “stop!”, goes limp, or taps out, the fight is over. 

Fourth rule: only two guys to a fight. 

Fifth rule: one fight at a time, fellas. 

Sixth rule: the fights are bare knuckle. No shirt, no shoes, no weapons. 

Seventh rule: fights will go on as long as they have to. 

And the eighth and final rule: if this is your first time at Fight Club, you have to fight. 

Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived

Let the games begin.

Success in 3 things

In this class, I have learned lots of elements that I thought it wouldn't be that important for public speaking. Most of them changed my mind about public speaking in the class. I have learned that I should be careful on things that I learned that I was bad at. Now I started to get better with public speaking. For now I liked to learn about voice because I always talk little bit fast and quite. I started to know what to do about that situation, which actually help me to communicate with other people outside. Also the way I stand because I always couldn't figure that out why I was moving while I was talking. I started to lose that and started to stand right in front of people. That actually made me happy about the situation that I had. Last thing is the eye contact. I always had issues about eye contacts because I always try to avoid eye contacts with people which actually affect me and the other people who try to talk with me. I try to work on these situation that I have. If I would succeed on them then I believe that I can be a good public speaker for future, which may actually affect me to get a job and succeed on it.  For my goals in this class I want to get in front of people and talk to them without having any problem, improve my skills about public speaking, able to be courage to go I front of a lot of people and talk with them. So I can be the expert one for the public speaking. 

A script is obviously less than a play, while a production is more 

In the play you can create more things when you act. 

It is meanfull than what normal word is.

It relates to this class because when we do public speaking we have to act and make sure that everybody understands. 

Who am I?

I am Tufan Baran Demirkol. I am from Istanbul/Turkey. I am 17 years old. I like to play soccer and play video games. I have a mom, dad and a brother who is 3 years younger than me. I live in the United States. I go to Cheshire Academy. I am a senior. I am a member and the captain of the varsity soccer team. I have achieved lots of trophies and medals for soccer in my life. I had 2 championship with my last team which made me proud of myself. I played in all star games in New England. I would like to attend to a college in the United States where I can play soccer and study. I want to become computer engineer for future because I believe that computer engineer is a future jobs which allows me to get more money and more customer. 

http://youtu.be/601Yx-miEU8

I am

I am Tufan Baran Demirkol. I am from Istanbul, Turkey. I live in an apartment with my family. I have one brother who is 3 years younger than I am. He plays professional soccer in Turkey. I play soccer too. I play in varsity team of Cheshire Academy. My dad played for professional team then he started to become my coach. I lived in Turkey for 14 years then I moved to United States for high school. I started to go to school in New Jersey. Then I moved to Cheshire Academy. I moved because I was not happy in my other school. I had lots of issues in that school which even affect me to get a tick. When I moved to Cheshire Academy as a junior. I had a great year and I was happy. Now I am still in Cheshire Academy as a senior. I am the captain of varsity soccer team. For future I want to become a computer engineer because I believe that it is the job that will get important in the future. Nowadays people do everything on their electronic devices. So that would help me to improve and get money from my job if I choose to do it. I have a lot of dreams one of them is to become soccer player and play in front of thousands of people. I always wanted to know how those players feel when they play in front of a lot of people. It would give them pressure if they make mistakes so I just want to feel that. I want to go to college in United States to get better education and better athlete. In turkey there is not that many college which offers athletics and education. So I think it would be better for me to stay in United States.