Choose one speech topic or give a presentation (several students can have the same speech topic, while presentations can be held only once):
SPEECH structure: First, provide a short introduction to the topic of your choosing. The questions and statements given are here to serve as a general framework (guidelines) for structuring your speech, that is, to focus your speech on certain aspects of the topic. In addition to an introduction, your speech has to have a ‘body’ (a central part of the speech where you discuss arguments, solutions, problems, issues, provide explanations and examples or contrast too ideas depending on the topic) and a conclusion. PRESENTATIONS: February (Unit 8) 1. Female Inventors http://englishprva.weebly.com/home/presentation-u8-women-innovators (Expand: Women in STEM, NASA) 2. African American civil rights movement (prominent leaders, events, segregation, voting rights, interracial marriage, AA civil rights movement today – Black lives matter) March (Unit 8) 3. The Suffragettes and modern feminism (possible expansions: commodification of feminism [using feminism to sell products, e.g. Dove], #MeToo movement) May (Unit 10) 4. A presentation on Banksy or some other artist who works in an ‘unconventional’ medium and/or creates socially engaged art SPEECH TOPICS:
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