Eighth grade history students are taking part in recitations of historical speeches as part of a class assignment. Students may choose to recite these famous words for their class or for high school classes. They were given several different options including speeches made by General Robert E. Lee, civil rights activist Sojourner Truth, President Abraham Lincoln and abolitionist Frederick Douglass. The activity helps students with public speaking skills and also asks them to commit to memory and engage with the words of great men and women to better understand the conflicts from the historical era in which they lived.
History’s Everlasting Speeches
