Title of Your Speech
Purpose: This statement should include what specifically you plan to persuade audience about.
Claim Type: (Identify which claim you will be using: Either fact, value, or policy for your speech).
Visual Aid: Give a brief description of your visual aid you plan to use.
I. INTRODUCTION (All capital letters)
A. Attention Getter: Tell what attention getter is. This represents the first words out of your mouth! So make sure it GRABS
the audience. Make sure it is relevant/appropriate to your topic. Some devices you can use for the attention getter are:
Joke/Humor (Make sure it is appropriate/in good taste)
Narrative/Story (Be brief) 
Shocking Statement 
Fact/Statistic 
Quote/Hypothetical Question or situation
Visual Aid/Activity 
B. Purpose Statement: This statement should clarify to the audience what you are going to inform them about and introduce
your topic. 
C. Identification of Opposition Statement (Fair Hearing): (optional) This statement should call attention to those arguments
that audience members may have against your position. It should basically call the audience members to give you a “fair
hearing.” 
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D. Significance: (optional) This statement should let the audience know why topic is relevant and/or important to them. 
E. Credibility: (optional, but will help create ethos with your audience) If you have a particular credibility with a topic (i.e. if
you have diabetes and your speech is on diabetes) then reveal this in a credibility statement. This will help create trust
between you and your audience and demonstrate that you know what you are discussing. 
F. Preview Statement: This statement should reveal ALL of your main points in one simple sentence and give the audience a
clear picture of what is to come in your speech. Be sure to use parallel words (i.e. first, second, third) to be simple and concise
and allow the audience to hear how many points they will hear within your speech.
TRANSITION: This statement allows the audience to hear that you are moving from the introduction to the body and can be
relatively brief. “Now that we know what we are going to discuss, let us first look at....” 
II. BODY(All capital letters)
A. Main Point: Provide an opening sentence that previews information to come.
* Subpoints (multiple)
* Minor Transition: This sentence shows movement from point A to point B.
B. Main Point: Provide an opening sentence that previews information to come.
* Subpoints (multiple)
* Minor Transition: This sentence shows movement from point B to point C.
C. Main Point: Provide an opening sentence that previews information to come.
* Subpoints (multiple)
TRANSITION: This sentence should move the audience from your body into your conclusion.
III. CONCLUSION (All capital letters)
A. Summary Statement: This statement should reiterate your points again to summarize what your audience learned about
in your speech. Make sure to include all points.
B. Call to Action: (Necessary only for policy/value. Make sure you are giving your audience a CLEAR, SIMPLE and
ACTIONABLE direction that they can immediately follow through with your solution)
C. Final Thought: This leaves your audience with a great last impression of you and your speech/information. Like the
attention getter, you can use devices such as a quote, question, story, joke, etc. to create a lasting memory.
PERSUASIVE SPEECH ASSIGNMENT
For this speech, you will be providing a ____-5 minute speech/presentation on a topic that you would like persuade your audience about.
You will be making claims of fact, value or policy in your speech.
Your goal is get the audience to believe what you believe about a topic/subject. While these speeches are more controversial in nature, it
is important that all opinions and viewpoints be both presented and heard in a respectful and mature manner.
REQUIREMENTS
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Time: _____-5 minutes in length. Speech is NOT to exceed 5 minutes. You will be allowed a timer during your speech.
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3 x 5 cards: You may use a total of two WHITE 3x5 note cards. (NOT 5x7.)
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Bibliography Page: Minimum of 5 sources required, in proper MLA format. At least three of these sources (where the info came
from) and the information obtained (the actual material being used) need to be DIRECTLY REFERENCED in the presentation of
the speech. Points will be lost if three sources are not CLEARLY announced in the speech.
BIBLIOGAPHY DUE DATE: SAME DAY OF YOUR SPEECH!
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Speech Outline: You will be required to turn in a full sentence outline. You will be given an example outline to use for formatting
purposes. OUTLINE DUE DATE: MAY 26th
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Visual Aid: A visual aid is required. It should NOT just be something for the audience to look at, but something that is actively used
by the speaker to add to the effect of the speech. This may be a poster, pictures, stats, graphs, artifacts, audio, video (30
seconds or less) or a demonstration. IT CANNOT BE A POWERPOINT CONTAINING WORDS. It can be a PowerPoint containing
pictures/charts that you will discuss in your speech. You must have any files required for your speech ready and easily
accessible on the computer on the date of your speech.
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Presentation Date: These will be randomly assigned in class on Wednesday, May 21st . It is your responsibility to KNOW YOUR
DATE AND BE PRESENT AND PREPARED on that day. Points will be deducted if you do not deliver your speech on your assigned
date unless you notify teacher beforehand AND have a note demonstrating illness/family issue.
10. Delivery: I expect you to practice your speech several times to ensure an enthusiastic, polished delivery. I expect you to know the
majority of your speech without aid. Note cards should be used for basic guidance and help if you have a moment of struggle.
YOU ARE NOT READING. YOU ARE DELIVERING A REHEARSED SPEECH.
11. Grading: There will be four separate grades for this speech. The grade of the speech itself is broken into two parts: Delivery and
Organization. Delivery deals specifically with how well you presented your speech in front of the class. The delivery grade has
10 separate parts, for a total of 60 points. These parts are:
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Time limit, attire, posture, eye contact, volume, rate/pauses, preparedness, 3 X 5 cards, language, fillers.
Organization deals specifically with the content of your speech. Did you meet the assignment requirements, were you
persuasive instead of informational, and was your speech clearly organized with easily distinguishable sections. The
organization grade has four separate parts, for a total of 40 points. These parts are:
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Visual aid, persuasiveness, sources, organization.
The other two grades for the speech will be the properly formatted Outline (May 26th) and Bibliography page (Date of speech).
Students will be shown rubrics for presentation and organization grades prior to the delivery of speeches.
12. Professionalism/Audience Behavior: Speeches can be very stressful, especially for those new to them. In order to
ensure everyone is treated with respect and can fully focus on speeches alone, a portion of your final grade will be
based on your individual behavior while watching others deliver speeches. Students who are distracting in any way,
talking, disrespectful, or not giving full attention to the speaker, will lose points on their grades for the behavior, and
likely receive a detention.
Rubric for Speech Outline
Some elements on the example outline are optional, but may be helpful to you when it
comes to meeting your time.
Having said that, your outline must contain the following elements to be awarded full
points:
Sections:
Purpose
Claim Type
Visual Aid
INTRODUCTION
Attention Getter (Sentence format)
Purpose Statement (Sentence format)
Preview Statement (Sentence format)
Transition (Sentence format)
BODY
Main Point #1
First Sub point to main point #1
Second Sub point to main point #1
Main Point #2
First Sub point to main point #2
Second Sub point to main point #2
Main Point #3
First Sub point to main point #3
Second Sub point to main point #3
Transition
CONCLUSION
Summary Statement (Sentence format)
Call to Action (If policy or value) (Sentence format)
Final Thought (Sentence format)
Remember, the outline should be formatted as the example outline on the reverse side of
this paper. This means you need to type each section header (such as Purpose:, Claim
Type:. Visual Aid:, etc.) and then either explain what it is you are going to do for that
section of your speech or write out the section in sentence format.
When completed, the outline should fill at least one entire page, in a normal sized font.