I am sprucing up my syllabus for this year. My textbook is....not fantastic. I'd love to start the semester with something current and interesting, etc.

My pick would be this: http://www.vulture.com/2014/05/read-amy-schumers-ms-gala-speech.html

But I'm a little worried that it wouldn't be appropriate for the first week of school, first semester freshman english. This is a commuter school so I'm likely to have some older students, or high school students. Still, I'd love something fresh and interesting and short to share with them.

But nothing is coming to me at the moment!