Prepare a 5- to 10-minute speech that identifies a theme in Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Four Freedoms speech and relates that theme to (1) your own life and (2) issues that are relevant today. Present your speech to the class, using an outline to guide you. The current issues that you choose to discuss might be related to politics, education, the media, or anything else of national or international importance as long as you make a clear link between the issues and a theme in Roosevelt's speech. Any experience from your personal life is also acceptable as long as you show how it relates to a theme from the Four Freedoms speech. In other words, your job is to connect ideas from the past to ideas in the present.
Your speech must make specific references to what Roosevelt says in the Four Freedoms speech, whether you decide to quote him or simply summarize his words. You must use examples from current events to demonstrate how the themes you've identified are still relevant today, and you must present examples from your personal life to show how the themes are relevant to you. These examples will appear underneath topics or subtopics in your outline: