I think that Bailey did an outstanding job with her elevator pitch. Right from the beginning she had me hooked with her opening statement: “In our graduating class of 2021 3,044 teenagers never made it to graduation due to gun violence”. This line not only introduces her topic, but also hits the audience hard from an emotional standpoint. She was able to zero in on an overall happy emotion of graduation to bring this horrifying statistic to light. From here, all of us in the classroom were fully engaged with her, hanging on her every word as she explained her civic artifact- the Sandy Hook Promise videos. Bailey also had a great delivery, she made great eye contact with the class and kept her tone and pitch steady but not stoic.She also left herself a lot of room to expand her ideas. Sometimes in these types of pitches, the speaker will lay everything out on the table, which can be good sometimes, but then they have nothing more to give. Personally, I would be interested to hear more about how these videos have impacted the legislature today regarding gun violence. Overall, she did an excellent job in her introduction to the topic, the arrangement of her speech, the style, and delivery while still maintaining the feeling of an informal conversation with peers.
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I also agree that Bailey’s grabber did an excellent job. You properly identified that the contrast between graduation and gun violence was purposely made to make you focus on the issue.
I also wrote about Bailey’s elevator pitch. She did an incredible job delivering such a hard topic.