Title: Einstein: More Than Just The Typical Genius
Specific Purpose: To inform the audience on Albert Einstein’s childhood.
Theses Statement: Albert Einstein’s childhood made him into the man that would forever change history.
Introduction
I. “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.” –Einstein
II. Albert Einstein’s childhood made him into the man that would change history.
III. It is important to know how Einstein was shaped into the man we all know.
IV. After researching there was more to Einstein then what we thought.
V. There were many things in his life that led him to his success, from birth, to elementary school, to high school, then too college.
Body
I. Einstein was brought into this world on March 14, 1879 at 11:30 a.m. in Ulm, Germany.
A. Denis Brian in Einstein A Life informs us that when his grandmother saw him after he was born she began wailing “too much fat, too much fat” since he had an overweight body and his head was misshaped.
B. Einstein had one sibling, a sister.
1. Maja, who was born in November of 1881.
C. Einstein parents were worried about his slow speaking and consulted a doctor.
1. He missed the one word stage and went straight to speaking sentences.
2. As a child, he had an odd way of speaking.
a. He would mumble under his breath a couple times until he got it well enough to say out loud.
3. His slow development of speech led Albert to wonder about time and space.
4. Einstein’s mother forced him to take violin lessons as a young child.
1. At first he did not like this, until one day he was introduced to Mozart’s sonatas – that changed his perspective.
2. His mother and he played duets together.
a. She played the piano and he played the violin.
3. Music was his go to, it helped him think.
a. It helped him solve his difficulties.
II. Albert started elementary school.
A. Albert was from a Jewish family, but were not devoted Jews.
B. Since there weren’t any