At the 2020 Academy Awards, Joaquin Phoenix won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Joker. His speech was not the usual list of people he thanked, but the personal ethics he lives by.
Directions:
Listen to Joaquin Phoenix’s Academy Award 2020 Acceptance Speech and identify your ethics and daily choices. (If you don’t have a way to listen to it, there is a copy of his speech you can read. It’s after the direction page.) You Tube Video: mmJiqQ&start_radio=1&t=12
Imagine you are on that stage, now is your time to let the world hear what your ethics are; and how these ethics affect your daily choice.
Write your acceptance speech addressing your ethics for the world to hear. Connect your ethics to the choices you make daily.
Share your speech with someone in your household. Post your speech to Google Classroom. You can post the written/typed version OR consider reading and performing your speech on your favorite social media platform and give us a link to that video.
*Hint: Loom.com is free for students and you can use that to share short videos with us for your assignments. *
Materials: Paper, pen, pencil, cellphone, computer, tablet
Class code: 32uvfu4
Log into Google Classroom to complete your assignment.