How To Try To Sound Like Whoever You Are Acting

I put on the dress, the hat, the socks, and the shoes. I had prepared for months for when it comes, but still I didn’t feel ready to perform. I was very nervous to perform in front of many, many children. I had to perform at my school, John Sinnott Elementary, Milpitas. It was a sunny spring day, but I felt as if my stomach curled up in a ball and was ricochetting off my ribs. My fifth grade teacher, Ms. Maultsby gave me a lot of tips and tricks of how not to be nervous or how to be more accurate with my representation. “Try to sound like whoever you are acting as,” she suggested,”and be confident when you’re performing. Don’t be nervous, you’re a role model to these kids.” One part of me thought that I could do it easily, but another part

That gave me a small idea of what the real performance would be like. In the real performance, I had to talk infront of two or three classes at a time, but since there were more than three classes, I had to do this at least five times. One day before the performance, I was sweating during rehersal, even though I did every thing correctly, I still had to work on a couple things to get better at. The closer the day came the more nervous I got. That night I could barely sleep becuase I didn’t want to have to

I knew I had to push through and finish my project. When the first performance started, there were at least 40 kids watching, luckily we started out small only having to perform to second graders. I felt lucky that I wasn’t the first person to have to stand up and talk, but I was the fourth. When my turn came, I stood up with “Martin Luther King Jr.” and thanked him for treating my people right. After I said my two paragraphs with him, I sat back down and waited for my next turn. In my head, I was begging for the people talking to go slower and pause, my hands were so sweaty if the were wiped on a hand towel the towel would be completely soaked. Then, less then three minutes after I had sat down, it was my turn again, this time I would talk with “John F. Kennedy,” thanking him for freeing my people from segregation. Once I finished another two paragraphs, I sat back down, yelling at myself that I only had to speak one more time. When the time came, I stood up, this time with “Abraham Lincoln” where I would thank him for freeing my people from slavery. I was sweating so much, my you could hear how nervous I was in my voice, and then, I finished. After the first performance I realized that it really wasn’t that