i’m a freshman student and in our english class we are required to teach the class one friday out of the year. my day is may 14, and we must choose a current events topic. there are no strict guidelines, but i need to be able to capture and keep the attention of 28 fourteen and fifteen year olds for a MINIMUM of 30 minutes, one class period is 50 minutes.
i have narrowed down my topics, but not by much, and i’m not 100% thrilled and/or interested by these ideas that i have:
~green technology/energy (more specifically in Germany)
~nuclear warfare
~child labor (however one student already did sex trafficking….)
~condition of jails in the u.s.
~the american diet (someone also did obesity in the u.s….)
if anyone has any more intriguing ideas that could be spoken for at least 30 mins and still be interesting, i would love to know. i have debated these ideas with my parents, but i don’t think they understand that i need to relate to fourteen and fifteen year olds for 30 minutes…. thank you!