Advice for delivering a Declamation speech
We're performing a declamation speech 3 days from now, the piece is called "Vengeance is not ours, it's God's," and I'm afraid I won't be able to do justice to the piece and I really want to do well. I understand its story but I'm not confident that I would be able to execute it like how I envisioned it. Perhaps someone has advice on how I can act it out like how do I do the facial expressions and stuff, when do I pause (I noticed I talk fast when I'm performing and I think it really takes out a sort of impact that I'm missing), also vocal advice would be appreciated since I speak really low in real life and no matter how much I practice I just can't force out a louder sound (I don't want to wear a lapel 'cause I hate hearing my voice on a speaker). Any advice would be appreciated, even just general public speaking advice or acting advice, thank you.