1. I believe that he was a good speaker because he was interesting and excited and easy to listen to without getting bored.
2. His good characteristics as a speaker was the fact that he was good at talking to the audience and knew what they wanted to hear. His bad characteristics I think would be that he never really smiled or acted like he was having fun speaking, and I feel like the yelling kind of got old.
3. Whenever he came to a part he really wanted to drive in, he would get louder and put more emphasis on it so that the audience actually listened to exactly what he was saying.
4. He used a lot of hand gestures and pointed at the groups as he was calling out their schools to make the speech more effective.
5. I think that they selected him as their keynote speaker because the audience probably gets tired of listening to adults talk, I know I do. This boy is actually the kind of student they are teaching and to learn something from him would be an eye opener to the teachers.
6. I think that his main point was to inspire the teachers to believe in their students, their co-workers, and themselves. I think this is very important to help the teachers do the best job they can do.
7. I believe it did. This boy was so cute and had such a powerful message that I think the teachers really did listen and took something from his speech.
I personally thought that his speech was very good and if I were a teacher I would probably never forget hearing his speech. I think that he put a lot of work into learning this speech and I am not so sure that I would be able to give a speech in front of 20,000 people today, let alone when I was in fifth grade. Actually, I believe that this speech may have inspired me today, I don't think you need to be a teacher to believe in today's youth and your peers and especially yourself. I think he did a very nice job at teaching the teachers.
