To construct and deliver an oral presentation on a topic, issue, idea, conflict, situation that is thought-provoking/controversial this year.
*You must present at least 2 different perspectives/interpretations/viewpoints on this topic, issue, idea, conflict or situation.
The topic I might do could be: Depression; that emotions are a mess, and we need to learn how to fix them; kids should be taught how their brains work from primary to year 10, just so that they know why they think the things that they do.

Depression perspectives, what is it like to experience depression first-hand. And what it is like for people who are watching it happen. It should provoke thoughts in the listener to look at their own mental state, and just check that they aren’t depressed. The reason being, it is easy to make a mistake their.

Emotions are a mess perspectives, the most easy to identify emotions, and what they are actually like; the reason why we feel them; and what it means if you can’t feel them. The reason because EMOTIONS ARE A MESS AND I WANT TO HELP PEOPLE NOT SUFFER ANY MORE FROM THESE EMOTIONS.

Convincing people about how their brains work, from the perspective of the kid whose brain doesn’t work, but hasn’t noticed and so is suffering without even noticing it(It can happen, trust me here, okay), and for the people whose brains are perfectly fine but who should be taught so that they can help others in a more effective way. The reason being that this would of been so useful for me a few years ago, might of saved myself a lot of problems.  

These 3 topics are all pretty good in their own way, and they all have multiple perspectives, and all that. But which would be best? Depression is the one I am least interested in, so ignore that. And the other two could be combined, by having it so that I teach everyone how easy it is to stuff up the concept of emotions, and lead it to getting everyone to try and add in a class that teaches us how they work. 

Speech:
Introduction(My topic, who I am, a question like, “Who here has a perfect grasp on their emotions?” If all are yes, then “Then you are all very lucky”, and if all are no, “To be expected, emotions are a mess”, or mix, “So a few of you are lucky, and a few need help understanding their emotions, no surprize there”.)

Explain backstory behind point(Talk about a guy I know who got really confused when it came to emotions, but never sought help for reason unknown, and who still dislikes how confused they got(You, talk about yourself))

First point about how emotions actually work(Well, like happiness is a nice feeling, angriness is a maddening feeling, stuff you will have to interview others to figure out. Disclaimer “I don’t know for sure, but from my limited research, this is what these emotions feel like.”) 

Second point(“And how do we make sure no one gets confused about what emotions are like anymore? Simple! Let’s make an extra class that starts in year 7, and goes to year 10 that tells us how brains work.” Then try to convince everyone that this is a great idea, and isn’t just going to waste kids time. Trust me, we waste enough of it already, we can spare a bit.)

Conclusion(Wrap up your point about how confusing emotions are, introduce some places people can go to when they do suffer from mental problems, not that we went, but you know they exist, and, yeah, wait for the applause! I hope)