Bilingual Speech Presentation
Central idea: Media has the power to influence our perspective and the choices we make.
As part of our "How we express ourselves" unit of inquiry regarding how media can influence our choices, the students in Class 5 - 1 and 5 - 2 were tasked with using a form of media - writing and delivering persuasive speeches in English and in Chinese - to try to influence the audience's thinking about a topic or issue. In English class, we wrote speech outlines for two topics, one of which was "Are video games good or bad for children?" and the other was "Is music good or bad?" In Chinese, the prompt was about what makes our school, Kuei Shan, a special place. For the purposes of the speech contest, students were allowed to use these speeches or re-edit them to their liking with new details and examples. Some students even took the additional step of writing their own completely new speech! It turned out to be an interesting speech contest.
