Sample Student Speech Outline
(Informative Speech)
Name: Chris Garcia
Topic: Aztecs
Specific Purpose: To inform about the Aztec civilization

I. Introduction A. Attention-getter: Have you ever wonder you made the fist chocolate drink or who came out with the color red or who use for the first time the tomatoes the Aztec where the first ones B. Thesis: Today you will know some Aztec history and achievement and the fall of their empire and about their decent C. Preview: Today I will explain some aspect of the Aztec civilization and not only the old Aztec civilization but also the new generation D. Credibility: I have study the Aztec history for one year and half E. Relation: Many of you are not from Aztec decent but never less in some point of your live you want to know little about you background

[Transition: Let’s begin with Aztec history.]

II. Body A. According to Rand Genera an Instructor of Reedley College the Aztec homeland was Aztlan and then migrated to Mexico. Aztlan was at Utah, Colorado, Nevada 1) During the migration the Aztec where lead by ten leaders one was Tenoch (cactus on a stone) later became the first Aztec emperor 2) They where looking for a symbol, that symbol was an eagle in a cactus eating a snake and where they found that symbol that’s where their new home was going to be 3) Eventually they found the symbol, they called their new home Tenochtitlan

[Transition: Now that you know little bit of the Aztec background now let’s talk about two of the great Aztecs emperors Montezuma and Cuathemoc

B. Montezuma and Cuatemoc were the last two Aztec Emperors 1) Montezuma saw a shooting star, but it was comet. Montezuma said that the comet was symbol of changes. 2) Two weeks past the Spaniards came 3) The Aztecs believe