My sister has to make a speech for school because she is running for president. It has to be a little funny, but not too funny...I have to make it perfect so that she can win...she has a chance of winning because a lot of people are voting for her...If I dont have a speech she is not going to be elected president for 6th grade...what should i do can i have any ideas...i need a speech for my sister?????????
2006-10-04 10:52:06 · 16 answers · asked by dinikahundalani 2 in Family & Relationships ➔ Family
Well it has to cover key points..
Why she wants the job?
Why people voting should want her for the job?
What she wants to do if elected?
What are her obligations if elected?
You can't really decide these things for her though it is sweet of you to write it for her and I hope you are being rewarded well.
If you can get a few points on each of the above questions you can then start fleshing them out into a speach.
Make things personal and have a good opening line and using stories to get a point accross can work really well.
When I first decided to run for student president my sister thought I was crazy. She didn't understand why I would want to take on all that extra respoinsibility etc
I told her that school was a place I had to be everyday, a place where I learned not just accademics but about my friends and myself. I explained that I got so much from being here that giving something back seemed only right. etc
Once she understood how I felt she became my biggest supporter as any of you who have been cornered by her in the corridoors or lunch queue will know.
(Something short and sweet, personal with light humor along the lines of this should make a good opening. It covers why she wants the job and is an introduction to her)
She has to really think about what here peers will want from her and what she can realistically achieve and what she wants to do. Three to Five key points would be good and a paragraph on each should cover it. Though one really good thing can win an election. I talked about introducing student counsellors to my school and think that swung things for me.
I don't know if you have any jokers running who are gonna promise all sorts of crazy stuff but if you do this would be a good time to address it.
I can't promise you a 3 day school week. I can't promise you the abolition of maths. I can't promise you no dress code. But I can promise you....
(That is also a good rhythm in a speach. Using the same opening to a sentance a few times)
Also mention how she will make herself available to her voters throughout her elected time. Will she have a drop in hour? Regular meetings? A suggestion box?
Follow that with some personal characteristics with why she would be ideal for the role. ie
I am hard working and always apply myself to the goals I set myself or that are set for me. To me there is no such thing as that four letter F word.... You know I mean FAIL!
(For this section try to come up with an example to back up what she has done... A time she applied herself to something.. A sporting achievement, raising money for charity)
Mention what she HAS to do in the role. What the School/Teachers expect from her. They may be dull things but think if there is a way she can add a twist to things and still be within the rules. I don't know what here duties entail so I cant offer any suggestions but one or two paragraphs on this should do.
Finish with an appropriate quote or poem and then always thank your listeners for their time.
If you break it down to those areas and interview her to get some info it should be easy to write.
Good luck to both of you and let me know how it goes!
:-)
2006-10-06 00:29:05 · answer #1 · answered by â?¥MissMayâ?¥ 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
2006-10-04 17:59:34 · answer #2 · answered by Joe Prosnick 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your sister needs to write her own speech. It is her that the students are electing not you. You can help her with it, but the words should be hers.
2006-10-04 18:06:17 · answer #3 · answered by Gypsy Girl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why can't she do it herself? She's the one who wants to be president not you, right?
While delivering the speech, most students have to identify with your talking. Like you have to demostrate you really care about them and that you will do something to help them.
You should watch some teenage movies. There's this movie starring Reese Witherspoon. I don't remember the title of the movie though. I think a dork guy delivered a convincing speech there. Check it out. :)
2006-10-04 18:02:54 · answer #4 · answered by meche 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
tell why you think she will be a good president be honest and sincere. She is organized,A great sister.always wants to help, loves animals, she is beautiful now but when she was younger she was so ugly our mom had to tie a pork chop around her neck so the dog would play with her. be sure to show it to her before you speak
2006-10-04 18:00:52 · answer #5 · answered by Mars 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ummm... why are you writing it? If she wants to be president then the first thing she has to do is learn how to do speeches on her own. Help her out but don't do the whole thing.
2006-10-04 17:56:00 · answer #6 · answered by *Mrs. Watson* 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Your sister needs to write her own speech! She needs to speak for herself, what will she do when you aren't around?
2006-10-04 17:56:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
i think she should write her own.. why should you? your not running for president of the 6th grade.
2006-10-04 22:02:50 · answer #8 · answered by mac15 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
tell her to be her-self and what she can have ideas like have a dance at school. if they vote for her that she want let them down. do things she can do not things she wish of doing
2006-10-04 17:56:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
how can she expect to get votes if you write her speach, maybe you should be running for class president
2006-10-04 17:56:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋