These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.
Switch to our new teaching resources now - designed by teachers and leading subject experts, and tested in classrooms.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- In this lesson, we will look Lennie James' use of rhetoric with advice and warning. We will learn how Lennie James writes with a particular style to appeal to his audience in a unique and personal approach within his open letter.
Content guidance
- Contains conflict or violence.
Supervision
Adult supervision suggested
Licence
This content is made available by Oak National Academy Limited and its partners and licensed under Oak’s terms & conditions (Collection 1), except where otherwise stated.
Loading...
6 Questions
Q1.
A short, interesting story to encourage pathos is called :
an antidote
anaphora
epiphora
Q2.
Chronological means:
a record of events in order of importance
a record of events in the order they matter
a record of events working from most recent
Q3.
Michelle Obama uses this to give herself advice:
collective nouns
imperative language
rhetorical question
Q4.
Imperatives are:
a rhetorical question
a way of evoking emotion
a way of stopping emotion
Q5.
Tenacious means to be:
To be bossy and ambitious
To be hardworking and satisfied
To be outspoken and opinionated
Q6.
Obama writes this letter to:
React with anger at how her life has changed
Regret events that have happened in the past
5 Questions
Q1.
‘Don’t throw your life away: be better than that.’ This is an example of (select two answers):
alliteration
simile
Q2.
'We should be ashamed. I am’ This is an example of (select two answers):
direct address
epiphora
Q3.
An open letter is (select two answers):
formal
usually found in a diary
Q4.
The main purpose of James' open letter is to (select two answers):
Give instructions for knife crime
Give rules for those involved in knife crime
Q5.
At the start of the open letter, it is really important to James to build:
logos
reputation
the idea he is an expert