Psychology and Commemorative Speech Topics
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7 Steps to writing your Commemorative Speech
Use the following questions to trigger your imagination regarding the person of your choice. Pick a person who has made a positive impact on your life that you wish to honor to your classmates. These questions simply serve as a method to make you think of things you want to mention. They also provide an order in which you can place your thoughts.
1. Who is the person you would like to honor with your words and what is their relationship to you?
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2. What characteristics does this person have that is honorable?
What significant aspect of your subject represents or symbolizes an important value in our own lives? Maybe it will help if you ask yourself the basic who, when, what where, why and how questions about your subject.
3. Refer to the particular contributions, achievements or merits. Give concrete examples. What has been accomplished?
4. Link your examples to the morality, taste, beliefs, opinions and sentiments of your audience. It's the heart of this kind of speech.
What specific values can we distract and which ones make the difference?
What can we learn of the subjects' way of approaching things in his personal or professional life?
5. Now, make a summarizing transition.
Link the previous commemorative speech topics of the important values to the common feelings and thoughts that you and the audience share.
Illustrate them with a short story, anecdote, facts or a testimony of a symbolic personal experience with the subject.
6. Conclude with a memorable summary. Help the audience to remember the speech topics, and above all the values being celebrated. Maybe a poem or a quote.
7. Okay, now that you have some direction, think about the words specifically that you
7 Steps to writing your Commemorative Speech
Use the following questions to trigger your imagination regarding the person of your choice. Pick a person who has made a positive impact on your life that you wish to honor to your classmates. These questions simply serve as a method to make you think of things you want to mention. They also provide an order in which you can place your thoughts.
1. Who is the person you would like to honor with your words and what is their relationship to you?
______________________________________________________________________________________
2. What characteristics does this person have that is honorable?
What significant aspect of your subject represents or symbolizes an important value in our own lives? Maybe it will help if you ask yourself the basic who, when, what where, why and how questions about your subject.
3. Refer to the particular contributions, achievements or merits. Give concrete examples. What has been accomplished?
4. Link your examples to the morality, taste, beliefs, opinions and sentiments of your audience. It's the heart of this kind of speech.
What specific values can we distract and which ones make the difference?
What can we learn of the subjects' way of approaching things in his personal or professional life?
5. Now, make a summarizing transition.
Link the previous commemorative speech topics of the important values to the common feelings and thoughts that you and the audience share.
Illustrate them with a short story, anecdote, facts or a testimony of a symbolic personal experience with the subject.
6. Conclude with a memorable summary. Help the audience to remember the speech topics, and above all the values being celebrated. Maybe a poem or a quote.
7. Okay, now that you have some direction, think about the words specifically that you