TED Talk Assignment Purposes: To communicate your ideas to a public audience; to make connections between academic argumentation and oral exchange, appreciating how one can inform the other; to practice public speaking in a supportive setting Assignment: Write, memorize, and perform a five to seven-minute TED Talk (no longer) that: teaches the audience something they need to know or: changes the audiences mind/thinking or: changes the audiences behavior about a topic or concept related to one of our course of study this semester Topic of Choice: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Specifically with controversy of Israel breaking international law