Speeches!

Speeches: Speeches are due to be presented in week 9 and 10. The Year 7 speech final is in Week 10. Your speech needs to be between 2:30 and 3:30, ideally aiming for 3 minutes. Your speech needs to be a persuasive speech-convincing the audience about something.

WALT: : to present a speech which: persuades the audience : holds the interest of the audience : uses appropriate pauses and gestures : has a varied pitch and pace : eye contact with the audience is maintained

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 experience)
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Marking Rubric: 

PB4L Possible Persuasive Speech Topics
LI: to persuade the audience that:

-Students will only learn if there are rules

-Rules are not necessary for students to learn

- Students should make the major decisions about what and how they learn

- Well-behaved students should earn free periods

- Belonging to a House is an important part of school life

- The Government should provide laptops for 21st Century learning

- Students cannot be individuals while they are wearing a uniform

- Everything we need to know is on the Internet so why do we come to school?

- Intermediate-aged students are still too young to be responsible for their actions

- Intermediate-aged students do not need mobile phones

- Even though there are educational programmes about the environment, many students do not really care about the environment at all

- Intimidation happens all the time in life and students need to “harden up” and deal with it

- Bullying is the lowest form of communication between people and there can be devastating consequences

- Young people are influenced by what they see on t.v.

- Certain Play-station and computer games should be banned as they are having a harmful effect on young people

- There need to be stricter guidelines about the types of advertising on television

- Social networking websites such as Facebook, You Tube, Twitter have had a detrimental effect on young people

- Social networking websites such as Facebook, You Tube, Twitter are the communication tools of 2011 and beyond, so we should embrace them and teach young people to use them wisely

- There is no need to be independent when adults are always telling us what to do

- Because they are texting all the time, people do not know how to talk to each other properly