Commemorative speech examples

Commemorative Speech

Time limit 2-3 minutes As you prepare your speech, you need to consider several questions:

Please email me the type of commemorative speech you will do by tomorrow at 11:59 pm. Students who deliver Speech 4 next week will receive 5 points extra credit.

You will type the answers to the questions on the top of your outline.

General Purpose: To Inform

Specific Purpose:

1. What type of commemorative speech do you plan to give? You may choose to give a eulogy, a

toast, a birthday speech, an anniversary speech, present an award, receive an award, or give a graduation address etc.

2.What or who is being celebrated in your speech? As a speaker you need to know about the person or

situation?

3. What is the situation or context in which this speech is being given? As a speaker you need to ask how can you adapt your speech to fit the expectations of the context? What are the emotions that are expected in this

situation?

4.Who is in your audience? As a speaker how can you adapt your speech to fit your audience’s expectations?

Manuscript (Complete Sentence Outline)

Example of Speech Outline you will type for Speech 4. Below is the actual speech delivered by Oprah Winfry. See in example below how the use of language devices can be used. While planning your speech, you will develop a full complete sentence preparation outline with labeled Introduction, Body and Conclusion. When you give your speech in class, you should use no more than 5 note cards preferably less with keywords outlined with only quotes word for word in sentences. Or you can type your manuscript triple spaced and mark it for emphasis no more than 3 pages and keep on podium.

Oprah Winfry

Specific Purpose: Eulogy Speech she delivered in honor of Rosa Parks.

Introduction

Attention Getter: /Reverend Braxton, family, friends, admirers, and this

amazing choir:/

Thesis: /I -- I feel it an honor to be here to come and say a final goodbye.//

/I grew up in the South, and Rosa Parks was a hero to me long before I

recognized and understood the power and impact that her life embodied./ I

remember my father telling me about this colored woman who had refused

to give up her seat.// And in my child's mind, I thought, "She must be really

big." //

/I thought she must be at least a hundred feet tall. I imagined her being stalwart and strong and carrying a shield to hold back the white folks.//

/And then I grew up and had the esteemed honor of meeting her. And wasn't that a surprise. Here was this petite, almost delicate lady who was the personification of grace and goodness. And I thanked her then. I said, "Thank you," for myself and for every colored girl, every colored boy, who didn't have heroes who were celebrated.//

/I thanked her then.//