Year 8
Using rhetoric to write a letter to your younger self
Year 8
Using rhetoric to write a letter to your younger self
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- In this lesson, we will use rhetoric to allow us to write our own 'a letter to myself'. We will do this by drawing from our experience of the rhetoric form so far. We will consider how to structure a response that would persuade our younger self to take our good advice and think about why people might write letters to themselves in times of difficulty.
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6 Questions
Q1.
Transformation means:
a lack of change
a little more change
a small change
Q2.
To put events in chronological order means to:
Put them in order of importance
Put them in the order starting with most recent
Put them in the order they matter to the individual
Q3.
'Just when you think you’ve done it, the four of you will be shot out of a cannon into the unknown.' This phrase uses a:
anaphora
rhetorical question
simile
Q4.
Michelle Obama uses emotive language to show that each event was:
similar
simple
superfluous
Q5.
Rhetoric is used to give advice through the use of:
incidents
indicatives
initiatives
Q6.
Michelle Obama gives herself this advice to show herself:
what she has forgotten
what she should do
what she should say
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