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Informative Speech: Progressing Through The Sleep Cycles

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Makayla Shockley
Informative Speech Outline
Title: Progressing Through the Sleep Cycles
Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the body’s changes throughout the sleep cycle.

Introduction: A.Attention Getter/ Relevance- Walking down the hallway at school, one of the most common things you will hear is, “I’m so tired, I had a horrible night’s rest,” or at least something along those lines, and I know that I have spent my fair share of money buying coffee in hopes of staying awake the whole day. If you’ve ever slept walk, talked in your sleep, or felt like you never went to sleep when morning rolls around, there’s a reason why. B. Credbility- When I was a little younger I used to talk in my sleep all the time, and I still occasionally sleep walk, so I was …show more content…

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II. REM sleep, or Rapid Eye Movement, is called that because a lot of the times you can literally see their eyes moving around under their eye lids.
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