<p>At my school student council elections are coming up, and we need to submit our speeches that we'll be giving to our classes this week. I wanted to get the audience involved into my speech.. Like last year I said can everyone stand up... move to your right.. move two steps to your left.. then I said "Ok you guys can sit down.. I guess I'm done, since I heard that to give a great speech u need to be able to "move" your audience".. Kids loved it..
Do any of you have any other ideas that you wouldn't mind sharing about what kids do in their speeches, or what you like to see in a speech.
THanks.</p>
<p>lol.. creative! Good luck :)</p>
<p>If the speech is funny, they will vote for you in a heartbeat. No matter how unqualified you are for the job.</p>
<p>sing a rap about the election! In middle school, one of the laziest and worst students in my grade ran for treasurer one year and president the next. However, he won both elections cuz he sang an eminem rap and changed the lyrics. it went something like "May i have your attention please...Could the next class president please stand up? I repeat...Could the next class president please stand up?" i forget the rest but you get the idea. Anyway, against some of the best students in the school, he still won. I think he later got impeached though for not going to any of the student council meetings lmao....
At my highschool now, I havent heard anyone sing a song for an election, but the people who win are always the ones who have the funniest speeches, regardless of how good a student they are. So id say if your willing to make a fool of yourself, youve got a good shot at any office ;-D</p>
<p>man, i never won any elections. Its because all the rich people had connections with speach writers and had a lot of stuff given out to anyone who voted for them. all i had was 3 posters and a speech. then i brought in my band and played a song emphasizing a great president i will be. but i lost. songs dont matter, funnyness will win you the elections</p>
<p>if your school has a student mafia, you could always threaten people into voting for you X-D</p>
<p>A girl from my school brought a guitar and sung her speech last year.</p>
<p>My speech wasn't quite as creative, but I did a lot of crappy word-plays on my name so it would stick in peoples' minds...</p>
<p>BhangraKid: Mind if I borrow a variant of that speech for my student government thing? I'm running unopposed this year but I'm supposed to read off a speech anyway, and that one would be fun... :)</p>
<p>Last year's student president rented an Uncle Sam costume and wore it as she gave her speech. She had the top hat, suspenders, etc. and everything was in the flag pattern. No one listened to a word she said, but she won by a landslide. Good luck!</p>
<p>Our school president wasn't even there to give a speech last year. He was in China on some buisness vacation. The reason he won was cuz his popular buddies did this Osama Bin Laden dress-up skit thing, and it was so STUPID but he won by a lot because people thought it was absolutely hilarious. And he wasn't even there! By the way, the guy is Pakistani so maybe that's why they thought it was funny, cuz they were kind of mocking him in a playful way.</p>
<p>This year's president won by doing this "salad" example of how the president works. First of all, she comes walking down the theater on the shoulders of 2 guys and this loud heavy music is playing, and all of her buddies are cheering for her. Then she goes up and starts saying her speech, and she's really confident, and she starts describing all of the elements of a presidency, describing each element with a type of vegetable (i.e. bacon bits, tomatoes, cucumbers, brocolli, lettuce, etc). So as she says the element and the corresponding vegetable, a person comes out and dumps the actual vegetable in the huge bowl next to her that was put there as one of her props. After she went through so many elements and vegetables, she tops it off with Italian dressing, and yells "VOTE FOR NATALIE" and all of the people that put a vegetable in the bowl hold up a poster saying "VOTE FOR NATALIE!" in huge letters. Then she leaves the stage on 2 guys' shoulders, with the same jammin music played earlier, and everyone is cheering. She DEFINENTLY won that election. </p>
<p>Just think of anything that will stick in other peoples' minds when they later go vote for you.</p>
<p>Like as one more quick example, this one guy was running for vice president and he was SO shy and wasn't very known, but he did a dance routine and maybe said like 30 words in total and won! And the 30 words was something like "Hi I'm _________ and I'm running for Vice President and I want to change blah so vote for me". He said practically nothing the whole time cuz he was so shy and he still won!!</p>
<p>cool stuff. at my school we do videotaped speeches, so its not as easy to have entire acts. seriously the older you get, the more people go by merit. (and voting at my school is not mandatory, so only the serious voters actually go vote) being a "good" person will get you alot of votes. i had to get creative once because i anticipated a close race. i wrote a rap, and i won by like a single-digit percentage. i dunno how ur system works.</p>