Title:           Round 3 speech full sentence outline
Author:          LowerThanDirtt
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First Edit:      Saturday 18th of October 2014 07:15:56 PM CDT
Last Edit:       Last edit on: Friday 31st of October 2014 12:47:58 AM CDT

I. Introduction:
   1. How many of you from the Chicagoland area know someone that has dropped out of high school? Chicago Public Schools stated in 2013, Chicago had a graduation rate of 63 percent, meaning 37 percent of students in high school did not graduate. Additionally, The US Census Bureau stated that 33 percent of Children in Chicago live on or below poverty level. These could be close friends or relatives that could have had a very successful future. However, the poverty and education relationship is not only specific to Urban society, it is happening all over the United States.
   2. Benefit to audience: Knowing about poverty and how it affects children could be beneficial in making positive changes in our environment. Shouldn't we all live in an educated society? If everyone had an equal opportunity to higher education, we would live in a  more progressive society with less conflict. It starts my fixing the issues on poverty.
   3. Thesis: Today I will explain to you all what effects poverty has on children, their behavior, and their performance in school.
   4. Preview: First, we have to understand what poverty is, what causes poverty, and then I will discuss what effects it has on children and their education.
   5. Transition: I will explain poverty in detail in order to fully understand the issue.
II. Main Point 1: Poverty is a very important issue to be addressed in any society.
   1.According to Encyclopedia Britannica 2013, poverty ranges from the general scarcity of resources to the extreme situation when an individual does not have the ability to satisfy their basic human needs.
   2.Poverty is a problem worldwide, however, this speech will focus on poverty affecting the United States. The US Health and Human services stated, that the US poverty line depends on the number of people per household. Someone living by themselves making only $11,670 or less lives in poverty. Also, those in a household of 8 making $40,090 or less live in poverty as well. The US Census Bureau(2013) concluded that 14.5 percent of United States citizens live below the poverty line. That is about 45.3 million people.
   3. The International Science Review (2005) defines many types of poverty. The first one is situational poverty, in which something such as a loss of a job or a natural disaster effects a families ability to afford certain things. Next, is generational poverty, in which at least two generations have been born into poverty. People in generational poverty might struggle to leave poverty because they never knew how to leave their situation. Absolute poverty is one of the most serious. It is a type of poverty in which an individual cannot afford the minimum standard of food, clothes, shelter, and health care.
  4. There are also many different causes of poverty, also defined by Education Research International. Poverty could be  caused by an accident such as disease, birth defects and handicaps that disallow people to find jobs in the market. Economical causes are some of the most prevalent, such as rising prices of food, property, or energy. There are also social causes such as racism, sexism, or social division. Demographic causes, such as overpopulation, or a large percentage of people who are too old or too young to work.
 
Transition: Now that we've established what poverty is, and some of the causes, I will talk about the effects it has on children.
 
III Main Point 2: Growing up in poverty can have many negative effects on children's behavior and education.
  1. Doctor Gary Evans, an American Psychologist, researched the correlations of poverty and poor academic performance and came to a conclusion that it is based on behavior. He states, "Poor children confront widespread environmental inequities. Compared with their economically advantaged counterparts, they are exposed to more family turmoil, violence, separation from their families, instability, and chaotic households. Poor children experience less social support, and their parents are less responsive and more authoritarian...Low-income neighborhoods are more dangerous, offer poorer municipal services, and suffer greater physical deterioration... The accumulation of multiple environmental risks rather than singular risk exposure may be an especially pathogenic aspect of childhood poverty." He brings up a great point that the environment poverty has to offer creates a huge influence on children, most of the time negative. Growing up in a dangerous neighborhood and being part of a broken household will have a huge influence on children. Without a support system or strong parental figure to guide them, children face instability.
  2. The negative environment of poverty affects children on an emotional level. According to a 2009 Novel by Human Development Doctor Eric Jensen titled "Teaching with Poverty in Mind", humans have a set of emotions that we are born with. These are sadness, joy, disgust, anger, surprise, and fear. Other emotions have to be learned through our experiences growing up, such as humility, forgiveness, compassion, gratitude, cooperation, and optimism. Because of the negative environment, children might have difficulty learning positive emotions. This in turn, may cause acting-out behaviors, impatience, inappropriate emotional responses, and less empathy for other's misfortune.
  3. An article by Family and Social Work (2014) concluded that there was a significant relationship in caregiver depression and stress due to poverty towards how children externalize behavior. It states "A relationship between poverty and caregiving depression exists where the longer a caregiver spends in poverty, the more likely they are to experience greater depressive symptoms. In turn, the greater amount of depressive symptoms a caregiver experiences, the more likely they are to experience stress within their caregiving. This increase in caregiving stress suggests that a child is more likely to exhibit externalizing behaviors."
  4.These negative behavior issues are then in turn affecting school performance. According to Education and Treatment of Children (2013), children with emotional and behavioral disorders hold and average of 18 days absent of the school year, and an average GPA of 1.4. They are also much more likely to abuse drugs, break laws, and even later in life, have much more trouble finding work or holding a job.
 
Transition: In conclusion...
 
Conclusion: I have spoken about the about poverty and it's effects on education. First, I defined what poverty was and some of it's causes. Then, I discussed it's effect on children's behavior and education.
 
Final Comment: People do not choose to be born into poverty. Everyone should have a chance to a higher education.