Great Speeches for Public Speaking Project
Students should select a whole speech or part of a speech to memorize and present to an audience from the choices below. This will be the first project of our "Public Speaking" mini-unit. The second part will be a debate.
Instructions:
Students should select a whole speech or part of a speech to memorize and present to an audience from the choices below. This will be the first project of our "Public Speaking" mini-unit. The second part will be a debate.
Instructions:
- Choose one of the suggested speeches listed below. Select a part of the speech (min. 3 minutes) or the entire speech if it is less than five minutes long.
- Log in to the BSE ALPHA Den Blog and let us know which one you chose. You can comment on other student posts. Log out.
- Practice and memorize the speech. Try to get the tone and emphasis that the original speaker might have used.
- Practice looking at the audience or a spot on the wall in the back of the audience as you say your speech.
- Deliver your speech to the class on the assigned day in May.
- The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln - read all
- President John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address - Video and Text
- "I Have a Dream" by Martin Luther King Jr. - Video and Text
- Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address - Video and Text
- Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech - Video and Text
- Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
- The Preamble and Declaration of Rights in the Declaration of Independence
- Hamlet's "To Be of Not To Be" Soliloquy - read all
- Daniel Webster's Bunker Hill Oration
- Ronald Reagan's Challenger Disaster Speech
- Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" Oration
- Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?"
- Seneca Falls Convention's Declaration of the Rights of Women
- "All the World's a Stage" from Shakespeare's As You Like It - read all
- General Douglas MacArthur "Duty, Honor, Country" - Video and Text
- Lou Gehrig "Farewell to Baseball" - read all