Earlier this year, in collaboration with Jewish Studies and ELA, our students researched inequalities in our world, our country, and our community.  During this exploration, each student selected a topic they felt passionately about.  We have put that topic on the backburner for now…until now.

We are starting our next area of focus: Project Soapbox.  Project Soapbox (linked here) is part of a nation-wide organization that encourages youth to voice their opinion on a topic they feel strongly about.  Students identify a topic, write their own brief persuasive speech on the topic, and then present that speech to an audience of their peers and community.

This year is obviously different…no in-person speeches.  But, we will still be preparing our speeches on our topics, as well as delivering them to our community and beyond.  We started our speech process yesterday by identifying what makes a speech good and what makes a speech bad.  Stay tuned for more.