Some more inspiration: Graduation Speeches from before

https://www.vox.com/a/greatest-graduation-speeches?utm_source=nextdraft

The Blind Side II

Answer the following questions in your notebook;

• What is the movie about?
• What do we know about Big Mike?

Work with words here:

The Blind Side 2
https://quizlet.com/287046165/the-blind-side-part-2-flash-cards/

The Blind Side 1

Today you are going to start to watch a movie called The Blind Side. It is about the story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an all American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.

Work with words here ; https://quizlet.com/286012009/the-blind-side-part-1-flash-cards/?new 

Yearbook Project, Spring 2020

“We’re in this together”

During the last weeks of year nine, you are going to create a yearbook for the class which will hopefully be a nice memory for you to look back into. When you are finished, we will put your texts together in a booklet and everyone will get a copy of it. You can also choose to make a graduation speech for your class. Then the script of your speech will be your yearbook contribution.

We are going to watch and discuss different clips about the future and you will also get to write a letter to your future self if you have time. 

The text you write for the yearbook and your speech will be assessed (see rubric) the letter will not.

For your yearbook contribution, you can choose to either write a hand-written letter (keep in mind that your classmates and your teachers should be able to read it…) or type on your Chromebook. Your text should be about a page and a half long and a first draft should be handed in by Tuesday, May 19. Here are some tips on what you can include in your contribution to the yearbook:

a.                            Your best memories of your school year

b.                            A time you laughed, or cried.

c.                             A piece of advice to your classmates for the future

d.                            Something you hope you never forget about this time in your life

e.                            Something you feel proud of having done

f.                              Something you would like to do all over again

g.                            Write about an imaginary class reunion year 2039

h.                            A letter from yourself in the future to your classmates

i.                              What you want to do in the future
j.                Your högstadiet survival guide for the future year 7's 

If you choose to write a graduation speech, you will present it to your class during week 22 (Tuesday, May 26, and Thursday, May 28) and your speech should be between two and three minutes long. Here are some tips on what you can include in your speech:

• A thank you to your classmates and teachers
• Something you remember from your years at Vallås.
• Advice for the future

You will get more tips during our lessons and we will also watch a few examples of graduation speeches.

Here are some examples of Yearbook texts from students that graduated from year nine a few years ago. 

The Pursuit of Happyness: Discussion

Movie Summary: Based on a true story about a man named Christopher Gardner. Gardner has invested heavily in a device known as a "Bone Density scanner". He feels like he has made these devices. However, they do not sell as they are marginally better than the current technology at a much higher price. As Gardner tries to figure out how to sell them, his wife leaves him, he loses his house, his bank account, and credit cards. Forced to live out in the streets with his son, Gardner is now desperate to find a steady job; he takes on a job as a stockbroker, but before he can receive pay, he needs to go through 6 months of training, and to sell his devices.

Movie Discussion Questions

Pursuit of Happyness

·       Did you like this film? Why/why not?

·       What is happiness?

·       Chris wants a better life for him and his son. What do you think he sees as happiness for his son? Do you think he makes the right decisions to achieve this?

·       Do you think that people have an inalienable right (i.e. a right that should not be taken away from them) to happiness? Why/why not?

·       “And it was at that time that I thought about Thomas Jefferson writing that Declaration of Independence. Him saying that we have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I thought about how he knew to put the 'pursuit' in there, like no one can actually have happiness. We can only pursue it.”(Chris)

·       Do you think anyone can achieve happiness? Why/why not? Is pursuing happiness better than achieving happiness or not? Why?

·       Do you believe that you can always get what you want if you try hard enough?

·       How do you feel about Chris’s goals in life? To what extent do you identify with them in your own life?

·       What things do you think we should pursue in life? Is happiness one of those things? Why/why not?