Toastmasters Speech Prep Checklist (Copy)

As the VP of Education, you should assign this list as soon as you assign the speech date.

In the right hand menu, click the green "Run checklist..." button and be ready to fill in the new checklist name using the format "YYYY MM DD Speaker-Name".

The date should be the date they are going to deliver the speech. Use a four-digit year, two-digit month, and a two-digit day. (Makes it easier to see which speech is happening when.)

Example: 2015-01-08 Jasiah

Now invite this person to this checklist by copying their email address, clicking on "Assign member..." in the right hand menu, and pasting it into the field.

Once you've named the checklist, filled in the name and email above, AND assigned the checklist via email, mark this step complete, YOU ARE DONE as VP of Education -- all further check-offs will be done by the assigned person. You can return here to monitor progress. 

Use the acronym SCREAM to remember this list of useful ornamenting techniques:

Simile - A smile is like a sunrise. (Compare two things with "like" or "as")

Contrast - It was the best of times It was the worst of times.

Rhyme - If the glove don't fit, you must acquit. 

Echo - Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country. (Also, "I have a dream...") Parallel construction is usually a form of Echo.

Alliteration - While I nodded, nearly napping (see this website for more)

Metaphor - All the world’s a stage; All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Once you've delivered the speech, complete this task.