Who supports your speech?
Who should one interview?
Objective: Students will list who they should interview according to their speeches
Material: Students – a pencil, a piece of paper
Teachers – Scotch tape
Steps:
1. Students need a pencil and a piece of paper
2. Students choose a topic for a persuasive speech
3. Students write down the topic on a piece of paper
4. Students write down who they should interview to support their topics and reasons
5. Students write down only who they choose to interview on a different piece of paper
6. Teachers collect the papers
7. Students circle chairs
8. Teachers shuffle the papers in which only a interviewee is written
9. Teachers put the papers one by one randomly on the backs of the students with Scotch tape
10. One of the students comes to the center of the circle and turn around so that other students can see which interviewee is written on his back
*The student in the circle cannot look at his or her paper
11. Other students ask questions that are related to the interviewee
12. The student in the center of the circle guesses who he or she is
13. Students keep going until every student finishes
Result: Students will identify who they should interview according to their topic
Yuriko Onishi
Speech 400