I hate public speaking too! Just know that everyone else is nervous too! I just gave a presentation in my Children’s Lit. class this week, and I was super scared. It felt so good once I was done! Anyhow, here is my idea:

I would read “One Inch Tall” by Shel Silverstein. To present the poem in an interesting way, I would get a brown grocery bag and write the title/author of the poem on the outside. I would also decorate the bag to fit the theme of the poem. Inside of the bag, I would put items that are found within the poem to pass around the class. In the poem, it mentions a timble, flea, and stick of gum. You could put these items (or pictures of the items) in the bag. At the appropriate part of the poem, pull out the item and pass it around the classroom. It brings the poem to life — and it takes some of the attention off of you while you are reading!

Here is the poem:

One Inch Tall by Shel Silverstein

If you were only one inch tall, you’d ride a worm to school.

The teardrop of a crying ant would be your swimming pool.

A crumb of cake would be a feast

And last you seven days at least,

A flea would be a frightening beast

If you were one inch tall.

If you were only one inch tall, you’d walk beneath the door,

And it would take about a month to get down to the store.

A bit of fluff would be your bed,

You’d swing upon a spider’s thread,

And wear a thimble on your head

If you were one inch tall.

You’d surf across the kitchen sink upon a stick of gum.

You couldn’t hug your mama, you’d just have to hug her thumb.

You’d run from people’s feet in fright,

To move a pen would take all night,

(This poem took fourteen years to write–

‘Cause I’m just one inch tall).

Good luck on your presentation!

So dont get up there… does your teacher have a projector? Put in scratchy-silent movie type music, and make slides depicting the poem in stick figure form, with the words typed out between frames. Go slapstick with it. Example; Draw the grim reaper with a stopsign, and a little stick figure girl coming to a screeching halt in front of it- then on a seperate sheet “Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me…” This way its funny for everyone, it’s creative, and you dony have to get up there, just sit in the audience, and change slides.

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get any of the books by shel silverstein from the library – he write funny tame stuff in rhyme, one is the light in the attic and the other is where the sidewalk ends both have what you are looking for