Year 9 Homework Booklet Spring 2
Name: Cara Morrison________________________________________
Teacher: Miss Woodhouse____________________________________
Week 1: Choose your topic for your speech
Healthcare in the
US
Week 2: Persuasive Techniques and more rhetorical devices
Task 1: Match the definitions to the correct example
78% of people in the borough
admitted to being scared to
Alliteration walk home alone after dark.
The sports centre changing
rooms are dirty, damp and
Authoritative Sources disgusting.
It is time for you to do
Emotive Language something about this
David Cameron has declared
that "The education of our
children is the most important
issue facing our county
Exaggeration today"
Do you feel morally able to
Flattery sit back and do nothing?
Mobile phones are cool,
convenient and necessary
in today's society.
Opinion
I know as,an intelligent and
caring man, you will make
Personal Pronouns the right decision
Smoking is worse for your
health than any other
Repetition addiction.
It is time to think. It is time
Rhetorical Questions to act. It is time to change.
The unimaginable horrors of
the war have sapped the
happiness away from these
Statistics innocent children
The food in your restaurant
is, without doubt, the worst I
Superlatives have ever come across.
The new gym will be the
biggest and best for many
Three (Rule of) miles around.
Task 2:
Introducing more rhetorical devices.
Here are some new persuasive devices to add to your toolkit. The device is in blue and the example is in red. Underneath each one, write your own
example. In task 3, you will write a short piece persuading your teachers that homework should be abolished. Try to think of sentences you could use in
that.
Anadiplosis – words end one clause or sentence and begin the next:
Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. (Yoda, Star Wars.)
Happyness leads to [Link] leads to [Link] leads to sadness>Sandness leads to suffering
Epiplexis – successive questions used to express indignation or shock.
If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not seek revenge? (Shylock,
The Merchant of Venice)
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Hypophora – a rhetorical question followed immediately by its answer:
There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights ‘when will you be satisfied?’ We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of
unspeakable horrors of police brutality. (Martin Luther King)
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Epistrophe: the same words end a number of different sentences:
It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation: Yes, we can. It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they
blazed a trail towards freedom through the darkest of nights: Yes, we can. It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers
who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness: Yes, we can. (Barak Obama)
Week 3: HeForShe Speech by Emma Watson
Today we are launching a campaign called “HeForShe.”
I am reaching out to you because I need your help. We want to end gender inequality—and to do that we need everyone to be involved.
This is the first campaign of its kind at the UN: we want to try and galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for gender equality. And we
don’t just want to talk about it, but make sure it is tangible.
I was appointed six months ago and the more I have spoken about feminism the more I have realized that fighting for women’s rights has too often become
synonymous with man-hating. If there is one thing I know for certain, it is that this has to stop.
For the record, feminism by definition is: “The belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the theory of the political,
economic and social equality of the sexes.”
I started questioning gender-based assumptions when at eight I was confused at being called “bossy,” because I wanted to direct the plays we would put on
for our parents—but the boys were not.
When at 14 I started being sexualized by certain elements of the press.
When at 15 my girlfriends started dropping out of their sports teams because they didn’t want to appear “muscly.”
When at 18 my male friends were unable to express their feelings.
I decided I was a feminist and this seemed uncomplicated to me. But my recent research has shown me that feminism has become an unpopular word.
Apparently I am among the ranks of women whose expressions are seen as too strong, too aggressive, isolating, anti-men and, unattractive.
Why is the word such an uncomfortable one?
I am from Britain and think it is right that as a woman I am paid the same as my male counterparts. I think it is right that I should be able to make decisions
about my own body. I think it is right that women be involved on my behalf in the policies and decision-making of my country. I think it is right that socially I
am afforded the same respect as men. But sadly I can say that there is no one country in the world where all women can expect to receive these rights.
No country in the world can yet say they have achieved gender equality.
These rights I consider to be human rights but I am one of the lucky ones. My life is a sheer privilege because my parents didn’t love me less because I was
born a daughter. My school did not limit me because I was a girl. My mentors didn’t assume I would go less far because I might give birth to a child one day.
These influencers were the gender equality ambassadors that made me who I am today. They may not know it, but they are the inadvertent feminists who
are changing the world today. And we need more of those.
And if you still hate the word—it is not the word that is important but the idea and the ambition behind it. Because not all women have been afforded the
same rights that I have. In fact, statistically, very few have been.
In 1995, Hilary Clinton made a famous speech in Beijing about women’s rights. Sadly many of the things she wanted to change are still a reality today.
But what stood out for me the most was that only 30 per cent of her audience were male. How can we affect change in the world when only half of it is
invited or feel welcome to participate in the conversation?
Men—I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. Gender equality is your issue too.
Because to date, I’ve seen my father’s role as a parent being valued less by society despite my needing his presence as a child as much as my mother’s.
I’ve seen young men suffering from mental illness unable to ask for help for fear it would make them look less “macho”—in fact in the UK suicide is the
biggest killer of men between 20-49 years of age; eclipsing road accidents, cancer and coronary heart disease. I’ve seen men made fragile and insecure by a
distorted sense of what constitutes male success. Men don’t have the benefits of equality either.
We don’t often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes but I can see that that they are and that when they are free, things will change for
women as a natural consequence.
If men don’t have to be aggressive in order to be accepted women won’t feel compelled to be submissive. If men don’t have to control, women won’t have
to be controlled.
Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong… It is time that we all perceive gender on a
spectrum not as two opposing sets of ideals.
If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by what we are—we can all be freer and this is what HeForShe is about. It’s
about freedom.
I want men to take up this mantle. So their daughters, sisters and mothers can be free from prejudice but also so that their sons have permission to be
vulnerable and human too—reclaim those parts of themselves they abandoned and in doing so be a more true and complete version of themselves.
You might be thinking who is this Harry Potter girl? And what is she doing up on stage at the UN. It’s a good question and trust me, I have been asking
myself the same thing. I don’t know if I am qualified to be here. All I know is that I care about this problem. And I want to make it better.
And having seen what I’ve seen—and given the chance—I feel it is my duty to say something. English Statesman Edmund Burke said: “All that is needed for
the forces of evil to triumph is for enough good men and women to do nothing.”
In my nervousness for this speech and in my moments of doubt I’ve told myself firmly—if not me, who, if not now, when. If you have similar doubts when
opportunities are presented to you I hope those words might be helpful.
Because the reality is that if we do nothing it will take 75 years, or for me to be nearly a hundred before women can expect to be paid the same as men for
the same work. 15.5 million girls will be married in the next 16 years as children. And at current rates it won’t be until 2086 before all rural African girls will
be able to receive a secondary education.
If you believe in equality, you might be one of those inadvertent feminists I spoke of earlier.
And for this I applaud you.
We are struggling for a uniting word but the good news is we have a uniting movement. It is called HeForShe. I am inviting you to step forward, to be seen
to speak up, to be the "he" for "she". And to ask yourself if not me, who? If not now, when?
Thank you.
Task 2: Answer the following questions
1) Vocab:
Find the meaning of the following words:
1. Galvanise: ______________________
2. Tangible: ________________________
3. Sexualised: _______________________
4. Counterparts: _____________________
5. Ambassadors: _______________________
6. Inadvertent: ________________________
7. “macho”: ___________________________
8. Eclipsing: ___________________________
9. Distorted: ___________________________
10. Stereotypes: _________________________
2) Questions:
[Link] group is Emma Watson reaching out to in her speech?
2. What struggles do young girls often face that young boys do not?
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3. How does Emma Watson describe growing up as a girl?
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4. Why should men care about feminism?
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5. Why does Emma Watson believe gender equality should be pursued now?
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3) Vocab:
1. Compelled: ________________________________________
2. Submissive: ______________________________________
3. Spectrum: ________________________________________
Week 4 – Logos, ethos and pathos
Task 1: What are logos, ethos pathos
ASPAREFOREST techniques are used to persuade the reader of your point of view. However. Aristotle, an Ancient Greek philosopher, felt that there were
three things people needed to do in order to sound persuasive and win an argument. There’s a name for this – logos, ethos and pathos.
Logos, ethos and pathos have been around since Ancient Greece. Aristotle, the Greek philosopher who came up with these ideas, thought that your
argument would be weak unless it included all three elements.
Draw a line from the term to it meaning.
Logos is…. Persuading your reader that you are the good guy –
that you are credible and trustworthy
Pathos is…. Presenting your reader with a logical argument, and
facts to support it.
Ethos is…
Persuading your reader by appealing to their emotions
Look back to the ‘He for She’ speech. Find one sentence that is an example of logos, one
that is an example of ethos and on that is an example of pathos and write it in the boxes below. Underneath each one, explain why it is effective
Logos: Ethos Pathos
In this box, write down the Identify a sentence that proves the speaker Identify a sentence that appeals
points the speaker makes about knows what she is talking about – she has to the reader’s emotions
feminism and the facts she uses a lot of knowledge about the subject
to back this up. Write them as
bullet points
Quote: Quote:
Effect: Effect
EVALUATION TASK:
Which do you think is most powerful and why? Ethos, pathos or logos?
Week 5: Preparing for my speech
Speech Planning Frame
Title/theme:
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Section/topic/ point to make Counterargument Evidence Techniques
to use
(statistic, expert
opinion,
anecdote...)
1: I know you might say...
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2: I appreciate that...
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3: I see your point: I recognise
that...
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Techniques checklist:
Expert opinions statistics rule of three superlative case study emotive language
Antithesis opinion as fact rhetorical question anecdote exaggeration repetition
Week 6: Writing my Speech
Greet the
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audience and ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
introduce your
topic.
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audience and ....................................................................................................................................................................
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