Download Breanna Gray COMM 1010 (6th) Speech Outline General Purpose

Breanna Gray
COMM 1010 (6th)
Speech Outline
General Purpose: To Inform
Specific Purpose: The audience will understand why the Greeks created Greek Mythology
Organizational Pattern: Topical
Thesis Statement: Greek Mythology was created to use as an explanation and reasoning in not
only the lives of Greeks but everyone.
1. Introduction
A. Picture
B. Preview
1. Zeus
2. Poseidon
3. Hades
Transition: But in order to understand Greek Mythology you must first understand the Greek
Gods’ starting with Zeus.
2. Zeus
A. Speech (God of the sky (lightening/thunder/rain) Supreme God)
B. Cite source (Why the people used him.)
Transition: Zeus may be the Supreme God, but his second in power is his brother Poseidon
3. Poseidon
A. Speech (God of the seas (trident can shake the earth))
B. Cite source (Why the people used him)
Transition: Last of the main three Gods is Hades.
4. Hades
A. Speech (God of the dead and wealth (helmet/gems))
B. Cite source (Why the people used him.)
5.
Conclusion
A. Summarize
B. Picture from beginning
Works Cited
"Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology: Hades (1)." Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology: Hades (1).
Web. 05 Oct. 2014.
"Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology: Hades (2)." Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology: Hades (2).
Web. 05 Oct. 2014.
"Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology: Zeus." Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology: Zeus. Web. 05
Oct. 2014.
"Greek Mythology: Poseidon." Greek Mythology: Poseidon. Web. 05 Oct. 2014.
"Olympians :: Greek Gods." Olympians :: Greek Gods. Web. 05 Oct. 2014.
http://www.greekmythology.com/Olympians/
http://www.mythweb.com/encyc/entries/poseidon.html
http://www.mythweb.com/encyc/entries/zeus.html
http://www.mythweb.com/encyc/entries/hades_(1).html
http://www.mythweb.com/encyc/entries/hades_(2).html