Crafting a public speech
Essential English · Year 12 · Creating texts for a public audience · 4.º Período

Crafting a public speech

Students study the rhetoric of effective public speeches and draft their own. They focus on engaging an audience and structuring an argument.

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Students study the rhetoric of effective public speeches and draft their own. They focus on engaging an audience and structuring an argument.

Key Questions

  1. What rhetorical devices make a speech memorable?
  2. How do we structure a speech for maximum impact?
  3. How does delivery affect the reception of a message?

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