Wisdom for Living

GENERAL RULES • The speech must be an original work, scripted word for word. • The speaker will present a persuasive speech on any subject he or she chooses. Humor and satire are permitted. • Up to 150 quoted words are allowed and must be cited properly.  

BRAIN STORMING:  

Brainstorm your topics:

What do you feel passionate about, something that needs changing or fixing?,……

Now list 5 ideas (5minutes)

1.____________________________

2._____________________________

3._____________________________

4._____________________________

5._____________________________

Of those 5 ideas list the Who, What, Where, Why, When or  HOW  for two or three of them: (10 minutes timed)

1.______________________________________

Who:

            What:

            Where:

            Why:

When or How:

2. ________________________________

Who:

            What:

            Where:

            Why:

When or How:

Step# 2

Pick one of the 2 you like the best.

Now you need a “catch” (a story, an astonishing fact that is relevant to your need for change, or an appropriate quote to make your point of the whole speech) to get the audiences attention:

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Now comes the research:

Delivery, what traits do you want to have in delivering the speech? (body language etc..)

1.___________________________

2.___________________________

3.___________________________

Pathos: Emotional appeal- credible stories that you find, only make up one “what if?”

1.___________________________

2.___________________________

3.____________________________

Logos: reason & logic for what you want to persuade people to do, facts & logical arguments to give proof and credibility to your speech

1._____________________________

2._____________________________

3.______________________________

Step 3                                                             

Make an outline of your speech from you research, this is the Flow, of the speech.

                                OUTLINE & SPEECH

I Persuasive point:______________________________________________ 

Catch: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Road map audiance an overview of the speech, where you will be going:

1.______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2.______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3.______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. CLOSING sentence for opening paragraph ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

II First Point 

1. TRANSITION TO making the first Point, with a story or fact: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. Answer your “W” questions with credible evidence or logic

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. Close this point and transition to next point

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

III Second Point  

1. TRANSITION TO making the Point, with a story or fact: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. Answer your “W” questions with credible evidence or logic

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. Close this point and transition to next point

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

IV Third Point 

1. TRANSITION TO making this Point, ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. Answer your “W” questions with credible evidence or logic

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. Close this point with your first quote & transition into Summarizing entire speech

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

V Closing:

1.Road map what you have talked about

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2.Give a call to action

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3. Thank the audience

Type out rough draft of your speech using your outline /

Read through 3 times with the written speech

Read with outline only 3 times for practice

Give speech and be critiqued.  

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