Persuasive Speech - Tone

This resource teaches pupils how to write a persuasive speech that captures a specific tone. The resource is steered towards the Writing section of the AQA language papers. Lesson uses extracts from speeches by Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator.

Lesson includes:
* Date/Title/Learning Objective
* Do now activity - exploration of two different speeches with different tones.
* Explanation and definition of tone
* Watching The Final Speech from The Great Dictator with thinking questions.
* Language analysis of speech - exploring how language creates tone.
* Brainstorming activity to recall persuasive techniques for speech writing.
* Planning sheet for main task
* Main task: Writing a speech. Task includes discussion points and success criteria
* ADDITIONAL RESOURCE - guided reading extract from The Final Speech with thinking questions and glossary.