Part of the KS3 English curriculum.
KS3 English Year 8: Speeches That Changed the World is a step-by-step online learn guide for Key Stage 3 pupils in Years 7 to 9. It covers what makes a speech powerful? Spoken versus written rhetoric, emmeline Pankhurst, 'Freedom or Death': arguing for the vote, churchill, 1940: rhetoric in a time of crisis, martin Luther King Jr, 'I Have a Dream': anaphora and imagery, malala Yousafzai at the United Nations: a modern voice, writing a speech: crafting for the ear and delivering a speech: voice, pace and presence, then brings it all together with mixed retrieval and unit challenge.
There are 23 short steps of about 15 minutes (roughly 6 hours of learning), each made of bite-size explanations with key words, tables and examples, and every bite-size is followed by an activity you check straight away. Key terms include Rhetoric, Anaphora, Suffrage, Suffragist, Dunkirk, Operation Dynamo, Civil rights movement, Segregation, Ethos, Lived experience, Hook and Signpost.
