Sample Speech outline

I.

          A. Ever wonder why kids really dread moving? Well its not cause our peers are the easiest to get along with.

          B. When kids move from one district to another its not that bad because they might know someone that lives there. When they move state to state that’s a WHOLE other story.

          C. By the end of this I would hope to make it easier to understand why in my opinion moving really sucks.

          D. Moving isn’t really as great as parents make it to seem.

II.

          A. A few months ago I lived in nice sunny Charlotte, North Carolina.

                   1. There everything was just so much fun. I guess living with your older cousins has its perks to.

                   2. The atmosphere was just much more chilled in relaxed I didn’t really worry bout anything.

                   3. I just got so accustomed to everything out there.

                   4. Then I got hit with the big surprise. I was moving back to good old Jersey.

             B. Have you ever watched a cartoon and in the cartoon that character just gets whacked across the face with  something hard and painful?  

                   1. Well that’s exactly how I felt at that moment. My jaw just dropped.  

                   2. I stood there so long with my jaw dropped it actually started to ache a little.

                   3. Everything was just so surreal. I thought to myself maybe if I mope long enough and just look flat out depressed my mom would change her mind.

                   4. NOPE… We wee still moving and my life was still ruined forever.

          C. Parents don’t understand the struggle to make new friends.

                   1. To make new friends we would actually have to be sociable in a new school and hope that the person who your trying to make friends with doesn’t think your downright weird.  

                   2. To kids or at least to me its so hard to just meet new people.

                   3. Honestly I’d rather be that loner kid that no one talks to just so I don’t have to actually strike up a conversation with someone.

          D. When I moved to Mays Landing and started Oakcrest I had idea and one idea only:     

                   1. “If anyone talks to me that’s fine talk to them make friends. If they don’t oh well you’ll forever be alone.”

                   2. That is exactly how I went my first week at Oakcrest.
                   3. To my advantage people were actually nice and wanted to talk to me.        

III.

          A.  The second week of school wasn’t as bad I actually survived.

          B. I say all this to say moving can be a great thing if the kids not a teenage kid that’s probably all emotional and pumped up on