Though she is not famous, maybe famous to groups of Blackhawk students, my granny (Mrs. Kathy) is my speech craft role model. Confident and entertaining, my granny can capture the attention of her audience through her descriptive, emotional, and personal way of speech. When I think of examples that can represent my granny's ability of effective speech, I am taken back to elementary school. Picture a room full of students, ages six all the way up to ten, and picture the chaos of at least 100 of them seated in chairs for chapel time. My granny, skilled as she is, knew how to not only capture, but maintain each student's attention while speaking on various Bible lessons and stories. I took little notice of it then, seeing as I was still figuring out how to spell complicated words like neighborhood, but her ability to speak to a large group of high energy children and actually succeed in teaching them new ideas was impressive.
Furthermore, my granny is an exceptional speech model because of her ability to effectively communicate in small groups as well. She is precise in her description of events and keeps her stories interesting when she speaks to me and my siblings about her childhood memories. Her demeanor is calm and kind, and she is sure to hold eye contact when I talk with her about more serious matters, adding her sage advice to guide me in my decision making.
My granny is my speech role model because she can effectively deliver what she has to say in a way that is engaging and adaptive to her audience.