Informative Speeches

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Informative Speeches

• each member of your audience needs to have his
  or her interest aroused, understand what you are
  saying, and remember the information after you
  have finished speaking.
• _Fujishin on pages 130-131.

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Informative Speeches

• Explanatory speech to inform your classmates
  about your cultural heritage.
• This will mean different things to different
  people.
• You act as a Teacher in an informative speech.

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Informative Speeches

• Purpose to provide interesting, useful, and
  unique information to your audience.
• Goals providing information and appealing to
  your audience.

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My Family is Not Interesting and other excuses

• Everyone has a great story to tell about their
  heritage, family, traditions, etc.

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Cultural Heritage

• It could be information about your familys
  country of origin, cultural traditions, language,
  food, religion, folklore, music, etc.
• You will need to do some brainstorming to narrow
  down to a topic that you can adequately cover in
  5-7 minutes.

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Narrowing the Topic

• Try to choose an aspect of your cultural heritage
  that you feel pride about.
• You may want to ask your family for help.

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Emotion

• Powerful for audience
• Balance it
• Find personal connections

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Your Skills and Informative Speaking

• Practicing researching, writing, organizing, and
  speaking skills.
• Creating a clearly organized speech.
• Practicing an enthusiastic, dynamic style of
  delivery.
• Being an effective "teacher"
• You will use this kind of speech in your
  professional career.

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Visual Aids

• A variety of visual aids could enhance this type
  of speech including Powerpoint, charts, graphs,
  photos, artifacts, music, ethnic costumes, etc.
• Make sure all the materials are in front of you
  when you begin your speech.
• You must include at least one visual aid in your
  informative speech.

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Key Questions

• Audience Questions
• Why should they care about this topic?
• Why should they believe you about this topic?

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Brainstorm Topics

• Work with another group member to help you with
  the invention canon.
• What is interesting about your family, heritage,
  dreams, motivations, etc.
• What binds you and your family or friends
  together?

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How is this speech different from previous
speeches?

• Research needed.
• Interviews with family members may provide a good
  way to obtain information for your speech.
• You will need a bibliography.
• Consult chapter 5 for guidance about conducting
  research.

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Audience Analysis

• Tell audience why your topic is important to
  them.
• Figure out
• Who your audience members are
• What things are important to them
• What their biases may be
• What types of subjects/issues appeal to them.

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Introductions

• Grab the audiences attention
• Preview the speech

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Conclusions

• Summarize the speech
• Leave the audience with
• something memorable.

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Outlines

• Title
• Purpose
• Central Idea/Thesis Statement

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Sampling of Past Topics

• Soul Food
• What it means to be Irish
• Russian Vodka
• A family connected by art
• Hip Hop music
• Holiday traditions
• Wildwood

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Sampling of Past Topics

• Erie, PA
• Atlantic City
• Connecting Multiple Heritages
• Catholic Connections
• The beaches of the Philippines
• Speaking Hungarian
• The Holocaust

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Sampling of Past Topics

• A family connected by Sky Diving
• A Family connected by crew
• Islam and my family
• What my parents taught me
• Discovering my Native American heritage
• Ellis Island

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Sampling of Past Topics

• St. Patricks Day
• The Underground Railroad
• Who I am Named After
• Rum Running
• Slam Dancing
• Tattoos