Ms. Stacey's Projects

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

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