Year 8
Pankhurst: context and an introduction to rhetoric for gender specific injustice
Year 8
Pankhurst: context and an introduction to rhetoric for gender specific injustice
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- 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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6 Questions
Q1.
What is injustice?
If something is right but unfair, morally
If something is right, either morally or legally
If something is unfair but right, legally
Q2.
Sojourner Truth opens her speech with:
A powerful word
A tricolon
An exclamatory sentence
Q3.
Truth uses a tricolon to demonstrate that she is:
More intelligent than a man
More outspoken than a man
Stronger than a man
Q4.
Truth's anecdote of her enslaved children is:
credible
illogical
logical
Q5.
The final exclamatory sentence prompts the audience to:
Boo
Clap
Listen
Q6.
It was difficult for women to speak out because they had:
Less problems
Less time
Less words
6 Questions
Q1.
Truth suffered injustice because:
She spoke about injustice
She was born in the 1800s
Q2.
Suffragettes and Suffragists campaigned for women's right to:
exercise
speak
work
Q3.
Two key leaders of the Suffragettes movement were:
Harriet Tubman
Sojourner Truth
Q4.
The suffragettes took a violent approach to protest, by (select three answers):
Kidnapping members of parliament
Starting fires
Q5.
What was the suffragettes' motto?
Please and thank you
Words not deeds
Words not speech
Q6.
The rhetorical language Pankhurst used was:
feminine
magical
masculine