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Sample Speech
Here’s a short speech written by Jason Whitson.
Yellowstone
Name the topic in a way that hooks listeners. Have you ever stood inside a volcano? How about a supervolcano? I have—when my family took a trip to Yellowstone!
Yellowstone is a supervolcano that is more than 40 miles wide. It sits atop a huge magma chamber that had a gigantic eruption 640,000 years ago. It shot 240 cubic miles of ash and lava into the air and destroyed the Great Plains. Another eruption like that would reach us even here!
Give interesting facts. Yellowstone is still active now. It is full of amazing geysers like Old Faithful. It shoots 5,000 gallons of water into the air every hour or so. Steamboat Geyser shoots even more. There are also many colorful hot springs and stinky mud pots to see.