Write an essay starting with background information, or an interesting story about a person

. Grab the audience’s attention with your opening sentences 3. Talk about the character of the person being commemorated, rather than just giving facts about him/her 4. Match your subject to your audience 5. Speak about a person that really means something to you. Involve yourself in the speech. 7. Make your speech brief and eloquent. 8. Enhance your speech with unusual information. 9. Summarize what the person means to you. 10. Leave your audience saying “How interesting.” – “I didn’t know that.” 11. Aim to express feelings, arouse sentiments, and inspire. Do not just list achievements, accomplishments, or background information. 12. Use stylistic devices to enhance imagery, rhythm, and creativity of the speech (i.e., antithesis, alliteration, parallelism, repetition, similes, metaphors) STEPS 2 1. Choose a person who has affected/influenced you. Fill in the statement “Because of this person I am able to………….” 2. Research the person’s life – collect background information, little known facts, interesting anecdotes, etc. – 3. Think about how this person has impacted your life. 4. Write an essay starting with background information, or an interesting story about a person – DO NOT REVEAL THE PERSON’S NAME UNTIL LATER ON – 5. Paint an interesting picture of some of this person’s achievements, obstacles he/she had to overcome, experiences, risks he/she took 6. Describe the influence this person has had on you – perhaps the things you have accomplished because of this person – has he/she motivated you in some way to take some sort of action? 7. Reveal the person’s name later in your essay 8. After you have written at least 2 pages about this person’s life/achievements/influences on you, GO BACK and start adding stylistic devices to make it sound more creative and interesting 9.