WELCOME 10TOM and 10HUR!
Homework for 10TOM on Wednesday June 3 2015:
Homework for 10HUR on Thursday June 4 2015:
Start researching for a 2 - 3 minute speech about a topic you care passionately about. Make a start on writing your speech. You can adjust your recent formal essay to do this. Remember to include a greeting at the beginning and a thankyou to your audience at the end. Read your essay or speech aloud to judge the time it takes to speak it and make adjustments if necessary.
Links to speeches in today's lesson:
Speeches in theatre and film
Speech by Aragon in Lord of the Rings at the Black Gate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXGUNvIFTQw
Aragorn:
Hold your ground! Hold your ground!
Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers,
I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me.
A day may come when the courage of men fails,
when we forsake our friends
and break all bonds of fellowship,
but it is not this day.
An hour of wolves and shattered shields,
when the age of men comes crashing down,
but it is not this day!
This day we fight!!
By all that you hold dear on this good Earth,
I bid you stand, Men of the West!!!
Speech by Wiliam Wallace in the movie Braveheart
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/specialengagements/moviespeechbravehe
rt.html
"I am William Wallace. And I see a whole army of my countrymen,
here in defiance of tyranny! You have come to fight as free men. And
free man you are! What will you do without freedom? Will you fight?" "Two thousand against ten?"
– the veteran shouted. "No! We will run - and live!"
"Yes!" Wallace shouted back. "Fight and you may die. Run and you
will live at least awhile. And dying in your bed many years from now,
would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for
one chance, just one chance, to come back here as young men and tell
our enemies that they may take our lives but they will never take
our freedom! Alba gu brà th [Scotland forever!] “
King Henry V speech in Shakespeare's Henry V
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1Ulz-Qwn
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9fa3HFR02
What's he
that wishes so?
My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair
cousin:
If we
are mark'd to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men,
the greater
share of honour.
God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
By Jove, I am not covetous
for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires:
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.
No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England:
God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more, methinks, would share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one
more!
Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made
And crowns for convoy put into his purse:
We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with
us.
This day is called the feast of Crispian:
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
And rouse
him at the name of Crispian.
He
that shall live this day,
and see old age,
Will yearly on the
vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint
Crispian:
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.'
Old
men forget:
yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day: then shall our names.
Familiar in his mouth as household words
Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.
This story shall the
good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we
happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so
vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any
speaks
That fought with us upon Saint
Crispin's day.
Speeches in real life that changed history
Speech by Winston Churchill in 1940
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uwCMf71nOA
Winston
Churchill 4 June 1940
[When Napolean lead Boulogne for a
year with his flat bottomed boats and his grand army he was
told there are bitter winds in England. There are certainly a great many more of them
since the
British expeditionary force returned so]
“I have, myself, full
confidence that if all do their duty, if
nothing is neglected, and if the best
arrangements are
made, as they are being made, we shall prove
ourselves
once again able to defend our Island home, to
ride out the
storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if
necessary for years, if necessary alone.
At any rate, that is what we
are going to try to do. That is
the resolve of His Majesty’s Government-every
man of
them. That is the will of Parliament and the nation.
The British Empire and the French Republic,
linked together in
their cause and in their need, will defend to the death their native soil,
aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of
their strength...
We
shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France,
we shall fight on the seas and
oceans,
we shall fight with growing
confidence and growing
strength in the air, we
shall defend our Island,
whatever the cost may be,
we shall fight on the
beaches,
we shall fight on the landing
grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in
the streets,
we shall fight in the hills;
we shall never
surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a
large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas,
armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s
good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the
rescue and the liberation of the old.”
Speech by Martin Luther King in 1963
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and
tomorrow, I still have a dream.
It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that
one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
equal."
I have a dream that
one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of
former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that
one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering
with the heat of oppression,
will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that
my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be
judged by the color of their skin but by
the content of their character.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with
its governor having his lips dripping with the words of
"interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls
will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that
one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made
low, the rough places will be made plain, and the
crooked places will be made straight;
"and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed
and all flesh shall see it together."2
This is our hope, and this
is the faith that I go back to the South with.
With this faith,
we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to
transform the jangling discords of our nation into
a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to
work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together,
to stand up for freedom together, knowing
that we will be free one day.
And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning: My
country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died, land
of the Pilgrim's pride,
From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become
true.
And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of
New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from
the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from
the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.
Let freedom ring from
the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.
Let freedom ring from
the curvaceous slopes of California.
But not only that:
Let freedom ring from
Stone Mountain of Georgia.
Let freedom ring from
Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
Let freedom ring from
every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring, when
we let it ring from every village
and every hamlet, from every state
and every city, we will be able to speed up
that day when all of
God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles,
Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in
the words of
the old Negro spiritual:
Free
at last! Free
at last!
Thank God Almighty,
we are free
at last!3
Speeches by a young adult at the UN
Speech by Malala Yousafzai at the UN in 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRh_30C8l6Y
