Composing Your Original Oratory: Procedure
Mx. Crawford
Your speech is due for delivery to the class on: Thursday, April 16
1.
Decide on your topic.
 What are your hobbies (skateboarding, sports, art)?
 What are you interested in (fashion, music, dating)?
 What do you and your friends think is entertaining (UFC, video games, movies)?
 What are the current trends and popular ideas (the Twilight phenomenon, reality TV, Disney teen
stars- Jonas Brothers, Hannah Montana, High School Musical, American Idol)?
2.
What are three main ideas/points about your topic that you could research and discuss?
 For example, if you did the High School Musical phenomenon, you could do a main point over
each of the three movies.
 If you choose music, you could do three musical genres, three musical artists, or three
instruments.
 If you choose sports, you could do three different sports or three aspects of one sport.
3.
Now research to find articles, books, websites, etc. with interesting and significant information
covering your topic and three main points. Be sure to record the source info: author, titles,
publishing info, dates, page numbers.
4.
Find or compose an attention getter. This could be a personal example, a startling statistic, an
anecdote (short, true story), or a relevant quote. You will use this at the beginning of your speech
and will also bring it back up at the end of your speech to tie everything together.
5.
Begin typing your speech single-spaced in 12-point Times New Roman font. Use Roman
Numerals to organize the parts of the speech:
 Intro with attention getter, significance, thesis statement, overview
 3 main points with half researched/paraphrased/quoted (but no more than 150 words actually
quoted!) info and half your own discussion
 Conclusion with thesis statement, summary of main ideas, and tie-in to attention getter
Be sure that your speech is informative, persuasive, and entertaining. Compose it so that we want
to hear what you have to say. Do not bore us. Leave us with a good message, maybe even a
moral lesson.
6.
Practice and memorize your speech. It MUST be between 7-8 minutes in length. We want to be
entertained. Be sure that you know your speech well so that it sounds natural and dynamic, not
boring and monotone. It should not sound like you are struggling to remember your info or are
rattling off something you read.