Informative Speech Outline Intro I. Attention-Getter, Audience Relevance, and Credibility: Have you ever realized when you wake up at 7am to come to this class every Tuesday and Thursday that it’s still dark outside? Well luckily, this will change soon enough on November 2nd. This is due to daylight savings time. II. Central Idea: To inform my speech class about the history of daylight savings time, the change of DLS time because of Halloween, and the myth and reality of DLS time. Body I. Main Point: History of daylight savings time dates all the way back to 1784 but has only been used for around 100 years. –timeanddate.com a. Benjamin Franklin is said to be the man who started this all. i. In his times, he suggested getting up early out of bed to …show more content…
After world war one, many countries including Germany, returned to standard time. iii. Then countries needed to save fuel resources for World War 2 and it was implemented again. II. Main Point: In 2006, DLS ended a few days before Halloween. –acurite.com a. Children’s pedestrian deaths are four times higher on Halloween than any other night of the year. b. A new law came into effect in 2007 to extend DLS to the first week of November so that trick-or-treaters would have more light and therefore would cause more safety. c. The switch may not have had much effect because most children started waiting until dark to go trick-or-treating. III. Main Point: It is a myth that DLS time was created for farmers. The real and main reason for daylight savings time is to make good use of daylight and save energy. —vpcalendar.net a. If the sun is out longer during the day then people will use the natural light longer and conserve energy. b. In 1975 the U.S. department of transportation did a study, which estimated a decrease in the country’s electricity consumption by 1% from March to April. c. Since it was dark in the morning, early risers were using more electricity because they didn’t have the light from the sun.