Present a famous speech (särskola)

Pupils choose a short speech from recent times and reflect on what makes it such a good speech.

Using either the suggested list of famous recent short speeches or a choice of your own, you are to present a well made speech. To do this you will get support from the speech checklist provided. During your presentation make sure to include at least 10 points from the checklist, helping you to explain why this was such a good speech. You should also provide some background to the speech, for example why it was made, and what was its purpose. Your presentation should ideally include a viewing of the speech, but no more than two minutes please.

Suggested speeches:

From real life:

 Mark Zuckerberg -  Harvard Commencement Speech

 Yeonmi Park -  Escaping From North Korea Speech

 Jay Silveria - Speech at the U.S. Force Academy

 Traci Ellis Ross - Glamour Women of the Year

 Pink - Acceptance Speech at the Video Music Awards 2017

 John McCain - Speech to Senate after cancer surgery

 

From Film:

 Gene Hackman - Hoosiers - ‘Pre-game’ speech

 Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins - The Shawshank Redemption - ‘Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying’ speech

 Mel Gibson - Braveheart - ‘Freedom’ speech

 Sylvester Stallone - Rocky Balboa - Inspirational Speech to son

 Russell Crowe - Gladiator - ‘As One’ speech

 Tom Hanks - Saving Private Ryan - ‘That’s my mission’ speech

  Robin Williams - Dead Poet’s Society - Sieze the day/Carpe Diem speech