Giving students plenty of public speaking practice is important, but thinking of fun topics takes time! This is an activity with 50 fun and engaging speech topics for your students to practice those very important college and career readiness skills!

Directions

• Share expectations of respectful debating
• Organize students into small groups or create one large circle
• Read the debate prompt out loud
• Students choose a side and think of at least one reason why they chose that side
• When students have at least one reason they hold up a thumb
• Choose a student to begin the debate

What's Included

• 1 directions slide
• 1 expectations slide for students
• 50 debate topis with agreeing/disagreeing chart and sentence starters

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*Note this product may be used in brick and mortar classes as well as virtual systems like Outschool