Speech on Relationships and How We Are Shaped By Them
Collection 1
Performance Task A
Present a Speech
Prompt: Based on these texts and your own experience, make a generalization about how relationships with others help define who you are. Share your ideas in a speech.
Interests (“What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?” and Of Mice and Men)
Religion (“My So-Called Enemy”)
Character Traits
Plan
Choose three texts from this collection, make notes about each relationship, think about how the relationships define who the people or characters are, and pay attention to specific examples and quotations from the texts that provide insights into the relationships.
“What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?” a. This short story starts off as European documentarist, Yonatan, thinks of a perfect idea for a new documentary: to go door to door, asking people, “If you found a talking goldfish that granted you three wishes, what would you wish for?” Yonatan’s main purpose in making documentaries is to study how humans interact with each other and with life, as is the purpose in writing this speech. What makes this world go ‘round? Relationships. Without one another, us, as a human race, would not be nowhere near where we are today.
“My So-Called Enemy” a. In this short film, the relationship between six girls from opposing countries (Israel and Palestine) are trying to find peace in their “home of warfare”. After watching this trailer, viewers may figure out that people who are taught to be enemies with one another can still look past the bad and become friends. For example, one of the Palestinian girls, Inas quotes, “When I see the Jewish girls as individuals, I love them and all of them are my friends…we talk everyday, and we eat together, we dance together, and we see them always together. But when I remember that they are Jews, I have my feelings at the same time…because their
Performance Task A
Present a Speech
Prompt: Based on these texts and your own experience, make a generalization about how relationships with others help define who you are. Share your ideas in a speech.
Interests (“What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?” and Of Mice and Men)
Religion (“My So-Called Enemy”)
Character Traits
Plan
Choose three texts from this collection, make notes about each relationship, think about how the relationships define who the people or characters are, and pay attention to specific examples and quotations from the texts that provide insights into the relationships.
“What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?” a. This short story starts off as European documentarist, Yonatan, thinks of a perfect idea for a new documentary: to go door to door, asking people, “If you found a talking goldfish that granted you three wishes, what would you wish for?” Yonatan’s main purpose in making documentaries is to study how humans interact with each other and with life, as is the purpose in writing this speech. What makes this world go ‘round? Relationships. Without one another, us, as a human race, would not be nowhere near where we are today.
“My So-Called Enemy” a. In this short film, the relationship between six girls from opposing countries (Israel and Palestine) are trying to find peace in their “home of warfare”. After watching this trailer, viewers may figure out that people who are taught to be enemies with one another can still look past the bad and become friends. For example, one of the Palestinian girls, Inas quotes, “When I see the Jewish girls as individuals, I love them and all of them are my friends…we talk everyday, and we eat together, we dance together, and we see them always together. But when I remember that they are Jews, I have my feelings at the same time…because their