Ms. Leung's Projects

ENGLISH 9--SPEECH PROJECT

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The library has many BOOKS on how to debate and write speeches.  Check these out:

• Sharpen your debate and speech writing skills / Jennifer Rozines Roy and Johannah Haney, 2011 (808.5 ROY)
• Effective speeches / Valerie Bodden (808.5 BOD)
• Words that ring through time: from Moses and Pericles to Obama : fifty-one of the most important speeches in history and how they changed out world / Terry Golway, 2009 (808.85 GOL)
• Attention please!  : making assignments presentable, enjoyable, and memorable for all, 2009 (371.3028 LUN)
• Speeches that changed the world : the stories and transcripts of speeches that changed history, 2007 (808.85 SPE)
• Extraordinary oral presentations / Margaret Ryan, 2005 (808.51 RYA)
• NuSpeak : become a powerful speaker / Geoffrey Lane, 1999 (808.5 LAN)
• How to give a speech / Margaret Ryan, 1994 (808.5 RYA)
• Speaking for success : the Canadian guide / Anthony Lieb, 1993 (808.5 LIE)
• Speaking with confidence : a guide for public speakers / Wanda Vasallo, 1990 (808.5 VAS)

The library also has great BOOKS ON POPULAR SPEECH TOPICS.  Use Webcat to help you find these titles, and don't be shy about asking for help if you can't find what you're looking for. 
For debate topics, search Webcat for the following SERIES:

• At Issue
• Contemporary World Issues
• Current Controversies
• Current Issues
• Essential Issues
• Issues in the Digital Age
• Opposing Viewpoints

The following DATABASES and WEB SITES will provide a great deal of material for most of your speech/debate topics.  Ask in the library if you've forgotten the Van Tech ID and password.  Here are some of the most useful ones for this project:

• Global Issues in Context (great for information on current world issues, e.g. Syria, global warming,  child labour/labor,fracking. etc.)
• EBSCOHost (contains newspaper and magazine articles on almost every topic)
• Canada in Context
• World Book Encyclopedia and The Canadian Encyclopedia provide basic information on a vast number of topics.
• Statistics Canada
• The Tyee
• CBC News
• BBC News

WORKS  CITED
There are several possible MLA8 citation generators for your Works Cited list, such as,  easybib.com , BibMe , Citation Machine or the World Book Citation Builder. Select Manual Entry mode when using a citation generator as this will also teach you how to read a citation.

• format your page using Times New Roman 12, double-spacing, hanging indents and alphabetical order  

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