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Thanks for the tip! I am going to go over a lot of details in the beginning so it will provide information that will help to understand the larger, more important parts of the speech,@SparksFly Kudos to you for advocating something very politically unpopular in the Portland school system. True courage is standing up for what you think is right when it's against the beliefs of the majority, even when those beliefs are due to ignorance.
The only advice I can give you in addition to what others have said is to make your speech in three major parts:
I speak frequently and I have found this to be the best way to open people's minds to the subject matter and to retain the information.
- Tell them what you are going to talk about, e.g. firearms, how they function, firearm safety, gun control facts and fallacies. Since the audience knows what is coming they will be less likely to interrupt with question later, and instead ask question that are more pertinent to the topic when you are in part two.
- Give the the speech body, all the details in the same order as step one
- Finally summarize the key points you just talked about and connect the dots as to how A relates to B which relates to C, etc..