Whaay

Your name: Alejandra

Topic: Who Am I?

General Purpose: To inform

Specific Purpose: At the end of my speech my audience will be able to describe how I am passionate, a trivia fiend and a perfectionist.

Thesis Statement: If I have to describe with three adjectives, even though they don’t explain me completely, they would be passionate, a trivia fiend and a perfectionist.

Introduction

I. Attention Getter: Hi I’m Alejandra and I love Shrek.

II. Thesis Statement: If I have to describe myself in 3 adjectives it would be passionate, a trivia fiend and a perfectionist.

III. Relevance: The assignment is to describe ourselves with three adjectives so the class gets to know a little bit about us so we aren’t as scared to present in front of each other.

III. Preview: For my contribution, today I will describe a piece of myself using three adjectives.

A. passionate

B. trivia fiend

C. perfectionist

[Transition: Let’s talk about the first description.]

Body

I. Passionate

A. Overboard/obsessive

1. Shrek

b. 4th grade

[Transition: other than Shrek I really like facts which brings me to my next thing of being a trivia fiend.]

II. Trivia fiend

A. love stats/fun facts

1. Sleep

2. Jackie Chan

[Transition: my last point is why it takes me so long to do giant projects; I’m a total perfectionist.]

III. Perfectionist

A. Got to go my own way

1. Crying about science 

Conclusion

I. Signal Ending: In conclusion, I really love Shrek, I’m a sucker for facts and I cry when things don’t go my way.

II. Restatement of Thesis: If I have to describe myself in 3 adjectives it would passionate, a trivia fiend and a perfectionist.

III. Review/Summary of Main Points: Today I have described to you that:

A. I am passionate.

B. I am a trivia fiend. 

C. I am a perfectionist. 

IV. Concluding Remarks/Memorable Final Statement: I hope you don’t think I’m really strange now. Thank you.