Just like an essay, there are 3 parts to a speech:
1. The introduction: open your speech with a hook to interest your audience. Consider what would be interesting or important for your audience to hear. Do not ask your audience a question that you expect them to answer. Instead, provide a fact, tell an anecdote, start off with something surprising or interesting, even a related joke.
3. the conclusion: summarize your main points of your speech. If you can leave the audience with something to consider.
Today, you will be writing a short speech (about 2 pages, double-spaced) on your chosen topic. Here's what you need to do:
1. Narrow your topic. You and your partner only have up to 5 minutes to speak. Once you have learned something of your topic, you want to select the most important or interesting information about your topic and write it using effective and clear language.
2. You want to essentially answer the following questions:
4. With your partner today, please write your speech. Take a few minutes to read the advice about speech writing below. Use the tips discussed therein in your writing.
Speech writing is not easy. A speech writer needs to know what his/her goal is. Luckily, most speeches come in only a few types. Some speeches are used to inspire or inform, others are used to persuade, introduce, or entertain. Your presentation and speech is an informational one. You are answering: 1. What is it? 2. Where does it come from or what is its background? 3. Why is it important? 4. How does it affect us (the audience) or why should we care?
Speech Writing Techniques & Vocabulary: When writing a speech, a speech writer uses what is called Rhetorical technique or Rhetoric.
Rhetoric is broken down into three distinct tactics to persuade or inspire a listener or reader.
Check here for further tips on writing and delivering speeches!
By the end of class today, you will want to:
1. The introduction: open your speech with a hook to interest your audience. Consider what would be interesting or important for your audience to hear. Do not ask your audience a question that you expect them to answer. Instead, provide a fact, tell an anecdote, start off with something surprising or interesting, even a related joke.
For example: "Many people are not aware that something common in their house might kill them. But every year over 500 people die in the U.S. from carbon monoxide poisoning. Carbon monoxide is a toxic gas, but, being colorless, odorless, tasteless, and initially non-irritating, it is very difficult for people to detect. In my speech today I will tell you what carbon monoxide is, how it might affect your health, and how you can prevent it from killing you."2. the body: this is the section of your speech where you will provide us with the details and a description of the four questions you must answer in your speech: what is it? where does it come from or what is its history/culture? why is it important? How does it affect us or how is this topic relevant to our lives? You should back up your answers with expert fact and statistics or evidence from your research. Tell us where you got your information! The best speeches transition easily from one point to the next in an orderly and logical way that the audience can easily understand.
3. the conclusion: summarize your main points of your speech. If you can leave the audience with something to consider.
Today, you will be writing a short speech (about 2 pages, double-spaced) on your chosen topic. Here's what you need to do:
1. Narrow your topic. You and your partner only have up to 5 minutes to speak. Once you have learned something of your topic, you want to select the most important or interesting information about your topic and write it using effective and clear language.
2. You want to essentially answer the following questions:
- A. what is your topic? What information does your audience need to know about it?
- B. where does your topic come from or what is its history/culture?
- C. why is your topic important?
- D. How does it affect us or how is this topic relevant to our lives?
4. With your partner today, please write your speech. Take a few minutes to read the advice about speech writing below. Use the tips discussed therein in your writing.
Speech writing is not easy. A speech writer needs to know what his/her goal is. Luckily, most speeches come in only a few types. Some speeches are used to inspire or inform, others are used to persuade, introduce, or entertain. Your presentation and speech is an informational one. You are answering: 1. What is it? 2. Where does it come from or what is its background? 3. Why is it important? 4. How does it affect us (the audience) or why should we care?
Speech Writing Techniques & Vocabulary: When writing a speech, a speech writer uses what is called Rhetorical technique or Rhetoric.
Rhetoric is broken down into three distinct tactics to persuade or inspire a listener or reader.
1. Logos (logic): this is the logical, sense argument inherent in the speech. Logic appeals to our rational mind. It makes us think and in thinking, we understand how one thing causes another. Listen for facts or statistics, listen for examples, listen for the word "think" or "consider". When you hear these type of words, that's the speech writer telling you that he/she is using logos. Good speech writers are subtle.These three rhetorical techniques, by the way, are also used in essay writing. Next time you write an English paper or Social Studies paper, try using rhetoric to create your essay.
2. Pathos (heart/passion): this is the heart-felt argument in the speech. Pathos appeals to our feelings. It makes us sympathize or consider the argument for how it can affect us as listeners or readers. Listen for personal accounts, personal challenges, listen for words like "imagine" or "feel". Listen for the speaker to sympathize with his/her audience. Listen for testimony (opinions from famous role models). Often a speaker will use second person POV to help create pathos.
3. Ethos (confidence/strength of character): this is the speaker's skill and confidence that what he or she is saying is important, relevant, or necessary for a listener or reader. A good speaker sounds like he or she KNOWS what the issue is all about, that the subject is well researched and the speaker is knowledgeable. Also, watch the speaker's eyes, his posture, the way he stresses his words, the way he delivers the speech. Is there anaphora in the speech (a repetition of a phrase or statement)? This builds pace and stresses the important parts of an argument.
Check here for further tips on writing and delivering speeches!
By the end of class today, you will want to:
1. Complete your speech writing
2. Once you have written your speech (about 2 pages, double spaced), print out a copy of your speech. Check your work for grammar errors before you print.
3. You want to divide up the speech between you and your partner. Decide who is going to deliver what part of the speech. Both partners must deliver a portion of the speech.
3. After deciding who will deliver what part of the speech, cut the speech up using scissors.
4. Paste or tape your speech onto index cards.
5. Use the cards to rehearse your speech. Practice your speech delivery by reading your note cards to your partner. You will have time next class to continue practicing.
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