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Imagine this, after weeks of summer storms and flooding, you receive a packet in the mail congratulating you as being elected “Master of Ceremonies” for the Georgia Leadership Hall of Fame. It is a very prestigious honor. However, all you can make out from the wet, muddy, packet is the name of the recipient.
You can also make out that as “Master of Ceremonies” you are supposed to make a speech discussing why this person has won the award, but the information packet is destroyed. Bad news! However, you remember we have been learning a lot about important Georgia leaders. Good News! You know most of the information is available on our class web site. Your job is to use this information as well as additional research, to create a presentation to accompany your speech.
The audience will be honored students such as yourself. In your speech, you must, of course, tell what contributions to the state of Georgia this person has made. You also want to engage the audience by describing how this person is like, or unlike, kids today. Important things the audience could relate to are how this person is alike, (or different), in terms of:
a.) food they may have eaten
b.) clothing they may have worn (maybe their favorites)
c.) places and structures they may have lived in
d.) how they got around (transportation)
e.) how they communicated with their friends
f.) what they did just for fun (recreation)
g.) rights and freedoms (You know enough about history to know things in the past weren’t always like they are today.)
Conduct your research using the information and lessons from the Historical Georgians Webpage. How you present your speech is up to you. You can add a PowerPoint, sing a song, make an eBook, or dress up and pretend you are the winner of the award, (of course you would still have to tell about yourself). Some suggestions are included on these web pages. Good luck, and keep your fingers crossed that the event doesn’t get rained out!
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