What does My 8th grade graduation speech need?
First, I would either leave the Frost quote out completely or shorten it. It’s a really overused quote and it really doesn’t fit in with the rest of your speech. If you want to use a quote, you could do a search for something like “Graduation Quotes” and you’d find a lot of hits. For instance, “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet;” “Wherever you go, go with all your heart;” or “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.” As for the rest, you might want to include a short anecdote to start. For instance, you mentioned that you remember crying the first day of preschool. You could flesh that out and open with that as story, then lead into the part about being nervous about high school. You might also want to reference an incident or two from your middle school career, something that was very funny or very touching. If you’re doing to be speaking at the commencement, you definitely want to find out how long your teac
