Introduction Speech

Joel Valdes: an Introduction

| |INTRODUCTION |Direct attention|

|Attention, |The very first thing that Joel shared with me during our conversation was that he was involved in a car crash in |to Joel |

|TIA, |his hometown of Frankfort. | |

|Credibility, |Not many of us would be able to say that as a conversation starter, but leave it to Joel to do just that. | |

|Thesis |After speaking with him for an extended amount of time, I was able to get to know him a lot better. | |

| |So I would like to share some of the things that I have learned about Joel with all of you. | |

| |BODY | |

|Main Point, |Joel’s parents and older sister are from Mexico. | |

|Sub-Point, |He was born here in Frankfort, IN and has grown up there the past 19 years. | |

|Sub-Sub-Point |Although he grew up here, his parents made sure that he can still hold on to his heritage and speak Spanish | |

| |fluently. | |

| |He is not as fluent with reading and writing skills, although his older sister is. | |

| |Beside from her, he...