Year 8‘How to make friends and influence people’: can rhetoric

change history?

To understand the context of key historic speeches, and discuss whether successful rhetoric can change

history.

Essential question: can rhetoric change history?

• Products:• Timeline of events• Poster summarising speech and its history• ASSESSMENT: discursive essay: can rhetoric

change history? (History and English)• NOVEL: ‘Animal Farm’ by George Orwell

Colonel Tim Collins• As Lieutenant Colonel

(Commanding Officer) of the 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment of the British Army, Collins gave a rousing eve-of-battle speech to his troops in Kuwait on Wednesday 19 March 2003, during the Iraq War.

• The speech was recorded in shorthand by a single journalist, Sarah Oliver.

Map work

• Colour and label the modern places in the Middle East

• Label who lives there, and their religion

• Egypt• Iran• Turkey• Iraq• Saudi Arabia• Yemen • Syria• Afghanistan • Israel• Jordan• Palestine• Lebanon• Oman• Kuwait• Qatar

• Judaism• (Jewish)

• Christianity• (Christian)

• Islamic• (Muslim)

Persia

• Outline of Persia on a modern map of the Middle East