Speech Organization

• Attention Getter:  This should be the first thing in everyone's speech.  This can be a short song or video (One minute or less), an interesting fact about your topic, a quote, a story, a quick question for the audience...be creative!

• Introduction:  Think of this like an introduction on a report or an essay...give us a quick overview of your topic, tell us why you picked it, what interests you about it...basically, why should we spend the next 5 minutes listening to you?

• Speech Body:  Again, thinking of this like a report or essay...how are you going to divide the main sections of your speech?  If you are presenting on a person, are you going to divide it chronologically (into sections of their life, starting with their youth, going through their life)?
  

     Note:  Speech 'body' should have multiple sections depending on how you are organizing your material...like paragraphs.

• Conclusion:  Once again...like writing an essay...this is where you close your presentation, re-cap your introduction...find some interesting way to end on, something fun, something we will remember.