Making persuasive speeches

In this lesson, students will examine a persuasive text structure and apply it to the empowerment of women and girls.

2hrs

Australia , New Zealand

Other , Fact sheet , Worksheet

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Overview

In this lesson, students will examine a persuasive text structure and apply it to the empowerment of women and girls. First, students will brainstorm problems that women and girls currently face and potential solutions to these problems. Then, students will be introduced to Monroe’s Motivational Sequence. Students will describe how a video utilises this sequence and explain the impacts. Then students will create their own texts, utilising this structure, about the empowerment of women and girls.

Learning intentions:

Students will...

  • understand some of the challenges that women and girls currently face
  • understand the five stages of Monroe’s Motivational Sequence

Success criteria:

Students can...

  • describe how a text’s structure and features impact an audience
  • apply Monroe’s Motivational Sequence to a text to explore how it fits and deviates from the structure
  • create their own persuasive text incorporating ideas from research and utilising the learned structure

Credits and acknowledgements:

Curriculum material and mapping has been developed and written by Cool.org.

Cool.org, GoodThing Productions and Regen Studios would like to acknowledge the generous contributions of Good Pitch Australia, Shark Island Institute, Documentary Australia Foundation, The Caledonia Foundation, and our philanthropic partners in the development of these teaching resources.

Watching the film

If your school or institution has a ClickView subscription, you can access 2040 on the ClickView platform.

If you do not have access to ClickView, you can purchase an educational licence to screen the film to your class and request a streaming link to share with your students. Please complete the Host a Screening form on our website and our team will be in touch to assist you.

The educational licence is for primary and secondary schools who wish to utilise the film as a learning tool or host on-site screenings for the school community.

Curriculum mapping

To view our Australian Curriculum alignment, click here.

To view our NZ Curriculum alignment, click here.

What you'll need

  • Lesson materials
  • Device capable of presenting a video to the class
  • Devices for research for students or student groups

Lesson materials

Fact sheet

Making persuasive speeches lesson plan

Worksheet

Student worksheet - Making persuasive speeches student worksheet

Other

Teacher content info - Making persuasive speeches

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