What helped me prepare the most

 I think that the concept from class that helped me best prepare for the speeches were the outlines.  After the first one I realized how important it is to have an outline because it really did plan your speech, you didn’t have much left to do after writing the outline, except for practicing it.  I also felt that practicing the speech in front of others and getting their feed back, after you have already presented did help me for my next speech too.  This helped because I could add in what I forgot to when I originally did it.  It also reinforces that you do need to practice in front of an audience prior to the presentation, and get their feed backs for improvement for the next speech.