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DUE:
begins week 9
(Tues. Mar. 9, Wed. Mar. 10, and Fri. Mar. 12) -
continues week 10
(Tues. Mar. 16, and Wed.
Mar. 17... Note: Friday
students will not perform speeches on Fri. Mar. 19)
concludes week 11,
for Tuesday and Wednesday students; continues for Friday students (Tues. Mar. 23, Wed. Mar. 24, and
Fri. Mar. 26) -
Note: Friday April 2 is Good
Friday, a National Holiday)
-
concludes week 13
for Friday students (Fri. Apr. 9, the same week as your Group Panel
Discussions)
GUIDELINES
1. Prepare a major speech
lasting SIX to SEVEN minutes on one of the following SOCIAL
ISSUES or on one
mutually agreed upon between you and your instructor. You must use at
least three credible sources that you will list on a Works Consulted page
to hand in to the teacher.
2. You may illustrate your
speech using suitable audio or visual aids. If you use a video, it should
not last more than one minutes. Your presentation should stimulate
audience participation, but ask your audience to save their questions and
comments until the conclusion of the speech.
3. Make sure your speech is
well organized with an introduction, body, and conclusion. Make point form
notes to refer to during your presentation. Do not read your speech!
4. On the day of your
presentation, you must hand in a hard copy summary of your speech and a
correctly formatted Works Consulted page with your three sources. Use newspapers,
magazines, books, interviews and videos.
You may use
some web sources, but these must be included only in addition to your
three books, journals, or newspaper articles. You may not use a web
source unless the following information is provided: author, title of
article, web publisher name (organization posting the article), and the
date of the article. In addition, you must, as per MLA/APA format,
provide the date on which you 'retrieved' the article from the WWW.
5. Your speech will be
evaluated by the teacher, using the same criteria used for the initial two
assignments plus an added criterion: "confidence."
6.
NEW: Because the
profusion of speakers who have chosen the all-too-familiar topics of
SPORTS-related issues and MARIJUANA has grown exceedingly tiresome to me
in recent years, I am adding the criterion that speakers must not cover
these topics in 2010 speeches.
THE TOPICS
The following are possible
topics for major speeches and panel discussions. If you wish to alter the
topic or select one of your own, please discuss your plan with the teacher
if you are uncertain as to whether or not your topic is a "social
issue." If you are confident that you have chosen a social
issue, please proceed.
You must use at least three reputable sources for any speech.
ETHICAL ISSUES
I .The Ontario government
should/should not have legalized casino gambling.
2. Toronto should/should not
have a legal "red light" district.
3. Assisting terminally ill
people to die should/should not be legal in Canada.
4. Capital punishment
should/should not be reintroduced in Canada.
5. The distribution of
pornography should/should not be legal in Canada.
6. Animals should/should not be
used in medical testing.
7. Knowledge gained from
genetic testing should/should not be used by parents to help them decide
whether or not to terminate a pregnancy.
8. Canada has/does not have a
responsibility to accept refugees.
9. The sale of reproductive
material like sperm and ova should /should not be legal.
10. Canada should/should not
trade with any country that has a record of human rights abuses.
11. Parents should/should not spank
their children.
12. Squeegee kids should/should
not be arrested for cleaning car windshields.
13. Cloning of human beings
should/should not be legal.
14. People on social welfare
should/should not be forced to take drug/alcohol tests in order to be
eligible for benefits.
15. People on social welfare
should/should not be forced to take literacy and math tests in order to
eligible for benefits.
ECONOMIC/EQUITY ISSUES
1. Accessibility, for students,
to colleges/universities is/is not being reduced.
2. Recent rent control
legislation has/has not improved tenants' lives.
3. Lotteries are/are not a fair
way to raise money for government.
4. Sports figures should/should
not be paid salaries in the millions of dollars.
(This topic is not available
until further notice)
5. Immigrants and refugees
are/are not economically beneficial to Canada.
6. Alcohol should/should not be
sold in supermarkets and convenience stores.
7. Pay equity is/is not a
policy that our society should adopt.
8. Gay and lesbian couples
should/should not have the same rights as heterosexual couples.
9. Ontario's citizens are/are
not treated equally by the province's criminal justice system.
10. Social and economic class
limits/does not limit social mobility in this country.
11.
Ethnicity/gender/race/sexual preference/physical disability/recent
immigrant status does/does not affect job acquisition and mobility in
Ontario.
12. Men and women are/are not
treated equally in the media.
13. Children's socialization
affects/does not affect career selection and success.
14. Genetically modified food
should/should not be allowed on the market without being labelled as such.
15. Privatized jails
should/should not be built in Ontario.
16. Canada's Medicare system
should/should not be expanded to cover eye and dental care.
17. Art and music classes
should/should not be retained as part of the school curriculum in Ontario
schools.
18. Affordable housing is/is
not a national crisis in Canada.
19. Working conditions for many
people have/have not declined in the past decade.
20. Tuition -fees for college
and university should/should not be lowered.
21. The Oak Ridges Moraine
should/should not be protected from developers.
22. The Ontario government
should/should not give tax credits for private schools.
23. Ontario Hydro should/should
not be privatized and deregulated.
RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Children with HIV or AIDS
should/should not have the right to attend classes with other children.
2. Public schools should/should
not have the right to expel violent children permanently.
3. Adoption of children from
the Third World should/should not be illegal.
4. It should/should not be
mandatory for people over sixty-five to retire.
5. "Hate groups"
should/should not have the right to exist and spread propaganda in our
country.
6. People serving time for
crimes such as murder, rape, and pedophilia should/should not have the
right to be paroled.
7. People serving time in
prison should/should not be allowed to study towards a college diploma or
a university degree.
8. Toronto Public Health
should/should not provide a needle exchange for people addicted to drugs.
9. Employers should/should not
have the right to test their employees for drug use.
10. Quebec should/should not
have the right to separate if a majority of its citizens support
separation.
11. The American government
should/should not have the right to interfere with the right of Canadian
companies to do business in Cuba.
12. All workers should/should
not have the right to strike.
13. Our government
should/should not redress wrongs committed against various groups of
people. (Aboriginals, Japanese-Canadians, etc.)
14. Working people
should/should not have access to government or employer-sponsored day care
centres for their children.
15. All Canadians should/should
not have the right to post secondary education.
16. Cell phone users
should/should not have the right to use cell phones whenever they wish.
17. People on social assistance
should/should not have to participate in Workfare projects
18. Workers should/should not
have the right to refuse unsafe work.
ADDITIONAL TOPICS FOR
MAJOR SPEECHES and GROUP
PANEL DISCUSSIONS
1. The war against drugs
can/cannot be won.
2. Society's views on sexuality
are/are not responsible for producing sex offenders.
3. Professional sports team
are/are not vital to the economic health of a city.
(This topic is not available until further notice)
4. There is/is not
sex/racial/religious discrimination in Canada.
5. Unions are/are not more
necessary now than in the past.
6. Products of third world
countries with poor human rights records should/should not be boycotted by
consumers in the developing world.
7. Pornographic materials do/do
not exploit human sexuality.
8. Prostitution should/should
not be legalized.
9. Marijuana for recreational
and medical uses should/should not be legalized.
(This topic is not available
until further notice)
10. Advancements in
communications/reproductive/industrial technology are/are not beneficial.
11. The use of sexuality in
advertising has/has not a negative impact on people's views of sexuality.
12. The present emphasis in the
media on the sex lives of political leaders leads/does not lead to a
debasing of the public and political environment.
13. Canada should/should not
participate in the war against Afghanistan.
14. A democratic, secular state
which would include Arabs and Jews should/should not be established in the
mid-East.
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SCHEDULE
OF TOPICS REVISED and EDITED, MAY
2002, MARJORIE KOPPERUD
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