Women's rights across the ages: non-fiction reading and writing
Why this, why now
In this unit, pupils read a wide range of non-fiction texts from across history that are centered around the topic of women's rights. They first read a range of texts and identify key themes and techniques within them, before then planning, writing, re-drafting and delivering their own speech.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Ardaydu waa inay yaqaanaan aasaaska maadada.
- Ardaydu waa inay awoodaan inay raacaan tilmaamo fudud.
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Women's rights across the ages: non-fiction reading and writing
In this unit, pupils read a wide range of non-fiction texts from across history that are centered around the topic of women's rights. They first read a range of texts and identify key themes and techniques within them, before then planning, writing, re-drafting and delivering their own speech.
25 lessons- Exploring historical attitudes and perspectives in non-fiction texts
- Preparing and delivering a powerful speech
- Identifying and analysing a writer’s perspective
- Exploring historical perspectives of men
- Developing a viewpoint using structural features
- Varying sentences and using anecdotes to express a viewpoint
- Re-drafting a persuasive speech
- Planning an analytical response
- Reading and forming opinions on a 19th century text
- Considering alternative perspectives of war in non-fiction texts
- Comparing and evaluating non-fiction texts
- Identifying and exploring complex ideas in a text
- Exploring autobiographical texts
- Writing a speech: openings and closings
- Preparing to write a persuasive speech
- Comparing tone and language choices in non-fiction texts
- Exploring a non-fiction text with multiple perspectives
- Creating comparative analytical paragraphs
- Persuasive writing: using credible and effective rhetorical devices
- Creating layered language analysis
- Considering non-verbal features in presenting a speech
- Discussing historical and societal attitudes
- Understanding what makes a persuasive speech
- Comparing the presentation of perspectives in non-fiction texts
- Developing analytical responses