2 Hour Presentation Reflection

     The preparation section was awful.  First, I found out that not all the pictures for the cards weren't printed out.  I had to go to the main office to re-print them.  Then, I realized that I didn't have an adaptor for my laptop and had to talk to Paul to find one.  I was told Mrs. Cancino had one and I asked her to borrow it.  She needed it for her class, so we both worked to dig out a second one to use.  I plugged it into my laptop and asked for help in the card assembly and banner mounting.  Ms. Melogno said that I was around 5 min. late for presentation and she let the people in.  I just stood at the front as though there wasn't any chaos beforehand and delivered my lesson.
      The lecture went without incident until I reached 11 o' clock.  I was reminded by my teacher that I  had to stop at 12:10 and remembered that I had only covered 2 answers of my 3.  Once the students came back in, I was still upset over being docked a letter grade for being late, but didn't show it.  I decided to continue the lesson as planned, leaving out some of the more minute details to hurry up my explanations.  Throughout my lecture,  Mrs. Melogno still had questions for me.  I tried to include several details, but could not recall some of the sources and locations.  This didn't please her.  Despite these repeated episodes behind the scenes, the lesson went well in the face of the students.
      I then moved on to my last activity with the sprout jars, which passed without incident and turned out very well.  It kept the students engaged and taught them a bit about how to reuse common household items to help support themselves in multiple ways.  Then the best answer and conclusion went by uneventfully and I ended the lesson just in time.  Cleanup went quickly too. 
      Overall, I am NOT happy about the botched attempt at preparation.  All of those weeks of work down the drain in the space of 5 short, extra minutes.  The rest of the presentation was very satisfying though.  I stayed composed despite so many setbacks in the start.  In addition, no one listening to my lesson, besides a disappointed Ms. Melogno, seemed to suspect a thing was wrong.  So, other than nightmarish preparation trouble, things went almost perfectly in my presentation.