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ENGLISH 8--SPEECH PROJECT
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 following DATABASES 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:

  • Canadian Points of View (gives both sides of an argument for a large number of controversial topics)
  • 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)
  • World Book Encyclopedia and The Canadian Encyclopedia provide basic information on a vast number of topics.
  • Vancouver Sun andThe Province online.  (These newspapers require a unique login.  Ask in the library if you've forOnce you've logged in, you can also view a large number of other major Canadian newspapers.)
  • The Tyee