Writing Powerful Speeches

In Language Lab for the next two weeks, we're going to be concentrating on how to write powerful speeches. We're going to read, watch and listen to famous speeches and identify what makes them powerful. We're going to practice writing our own speeches, practice delivering them to the class, record them on tape and video them.

At the end of the Unit of Inquiry on Finite Resources, we will use our speech-writing skills to present a speech about our chosen finite resource. We will be persuading our audience that the time has come to think about how to conserve our resources and to think about what we will do when they run out.

Ayesha has found some excellent websites that will help us to learn about writing speeches:

http://www.kidsturncentral.com/links/speakinglinks.htm
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/speech/library.htm
http://www.speeches.com/