Сценарий конкурса ораторского искусства «I Have a Dream»

Конкурс ораторского искусства "I Have a Dream…"

для учащихся 8-11 классов

Конкурс ораторского искусства на английском языке "I Have a Dream…", посвящен Дню памяти Мартина Лютера Кинга, выдающегося лидера Движения за гражданские права чернокожих в США, афроамериканского проповедника, который был убит 4 апреля 1968 года в свои 39 лет.

День Мартина Лютера Кинга отмечается в третий понедельник января сразу после его дня рождения 15 января и посвящен жизни и идеалам правозащитника и публициста. Его речь "I have a Dream..." («У меня есть мечта»), с которой он выступил во время марша на Вашингтон в 1963 году, стала вдохновением для миллионов людей.

Кинг удостоился Нобелевской премии мира (1964) за вклад в движение ненасильственного сопротивления расовому угнетению.

Dear pupils, teachers and guests! Today we are holding a speech contest "I Have a Dream" to commemorate one of the greatest political activists and prominent leaders in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. His name was Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1963 King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he established his reputation as one of the greatest orators in American history.

The aim of our contest is to give our pupils an opportunity to demonstrate their oral skills on the topic "I Have a Dream". Every participant in the contest will be given 1-2 minutes to express his or her ideas.

Let me introduce you the jury:

And now a few words about Martin Luther King.

He was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. His legal name at birth was "Michael King"; his father, who changed his own name from Michael to Martin Luther, later said that the name Michael was recorded incorrectly. Martin, Jr., was a middle child, between an older sister, Willie Christine King, and a younger brother, Alfred Daniel Williams King.

Growing up in Atlanta, King attended Booker T. Washington High School. A precocious student, he skipped both the ninth and the twelfth grade and entered Morehouse College at age fifteen without formally graduating from high school. In 1948, he graduated from Morehouse with a Bachelor of Arts degree insociology, and enrolled in CrozerTheological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1951. King married Coretta Scott, on June 18, 1953, on the lawn of her parents' house in her hometown of Heiberger, Alabama. They became the parents of four children; Yolanda King,Martin Luther King III,Dexter Scott King, and Bernice King.

Martin Luther King, Jr. is best known for his role in the advancement ofcivil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience. King has become a national icon in the history of modern American liberalism.

King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957, serving as its first president.

King's efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he established his reputation as one of the greatest orators in American history.

On October 14 1964, King received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence. In the next few years leading up to his death, he expanded his focus to include poverty and the Vietnam War—alienating many of his liberal allies with a 1967 speech titled "Beyond Vietnam". King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C., called the Poor People's Campaign.

King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and Congressional Gold Medal in 2004.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a U.S. federal holiday in 1986. Hundreds of streets in the U.S. and beyond have been renamed in his honor.

Now I invite the participants.

Dear spectators! We invite you to vote for your favourite speakers! You have special cards for it. Each of you can choose only one favourite participant!

Адрес публикации: https://www.prodlenka.org/metodicheskie-razrabotki/377345-scenarij-konkursa-oratorskogo-iskusstva-i-hav