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Year 8

Rhetoric: Injustice: Pankhurst & Sojourner Truth

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    In this lesson, we will consider how rhetoric can be used to highlight injustice in society. We will study the abolitionist Sojourner Truth's iconic speech where she spoke out against the treatment of African American people enslaved across the USA in the nineteenth century. We will explore how Truth used a particular structure to position her argument for change.
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    In this lesson, we will continue to explore the way in which abolitionist Sojourner Truth used rhetorical devices to frame her argument. Building upon our knowledge of logos, we will consider how Truth used particular language to emphasise the injustices she identified to the audience.
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    In this lesson, we will learn about Emmeline Pankhurst, an iconic suffragette who used rhetorical language to highlight the injustices faced by women in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. We will explore the language that Emmeline Pankhurst used to create a large feminist following, and ultimately to drive social change that changed the world forever.
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    in this lesson, we will study Pankhurst's use of structure to put across a convincing, confident argument. We will use her as inspiration for our own powerful, Pankhurst-esque speeches around gender injustice.
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