Aristotle’s method of persuasion
Learn about language methods of persuasion, identify these methods and apply this knowledge.
This unit engages the works of Aristotle and President Ronald Regan to learn of the tools used by effective public speakers to connect with their audience. 8 sessions, recommended for Year 10 students of History and English.
Contents Included:
| Subject Area: | English and History |
| Year level: | This unit is relevant to aspects of: English Year 10 History Year 10 |
| Contents Included: | 3 to 4 double lessons of work Teacher lesson plan 2 teacher worksheets 6 student worksheets Transcript of ‘Tear Down this Wall’ speech |
| English curriculum markers: | Language: AC9E10LA01 Understand how language can have inclusive and exclusive social effects, and can empower or disempower people. AC9E10LA02 Understand that language used to evaluate, implicitly or explicitly reveals an individual’s values. AC9E10LA03 Analyse text structures and language features and evaluate their effectiveness in achieving their purpose. AC9E10LA05 Analyse and evaluate the effectiveness of particular sentence structures to express and craft ideas. Literacy: AC9E10LY03 Analyse and evaluate how language features are used to implicitly or explicitly represent values, beliefs and attitudes. AC9E10LY04 Analyse and evaluate how authors organise ideas in texts to achieve a purpose AC9E10LY05 Integrate comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to analyse and interpret complex and abstract ideas. AC9E10LY02 Listen to spoken texts and explain the purposes and effects of text structures and language features, and use interaction skills to discuss and present an opinion about these texts. AC9E10LY07 Plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations by experimenting with rhetorical devices, and the organisation and development of ideas, to engage audiences for different purposes in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical. |
| History curriculum markers: | Knowledge and understanding: AC9HH10K16 Causes and effects of the significant events and developments of the major global influences on Australia in the post-World War II period. AC9HH10K19 The effects of global influences on Australia’s changing identity as a nation and its international relationships. Skills: AC9HH10S03 Identify the origin and content of sources, and explain the purpose and context of primary and secondary sources. AC9HH10S08 Create descriptions, explanations and historical arguments, using historical knowledge, concepts and terms that incorporate and acknowledge evidence from sources. |
| Learning intentions: | To learn about Aristotle’s method of persuasion, be able to identify these methods in a given text and apply this knowledge. To understand how effective public speakers use their body language and voice to connect with their audience. To be able to identify and analyse the language devices used in Ronald Reagan’s speech. To understand and be able to contextualise Ronald Reagan’s Address at the Brandenburg Gate as well as grasp its significance for Germany, Western nations and the world. Extension tasks provided will also allow students to deepen their historical knowledge of this time period as well as experiment with rhetorical devices in their own creative work. |
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