Pack contains: lesson plan, worksheet, analysis vocab sheet (speeches not included, can be found easily online)

Lesson focus: Speech analysis, fact-checking and internet safety.

Students study a selection of speeches and learn to analyse, fact-check and assess the speeches made by politicians in order to assess the quality of the speech and whether the speech and speaker should be trusted. The pack looks at how students can protect themselves from falling for bad actors.

Focus on JD Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference and speeches made by Churchill, Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr, Kennedy, and Greta Thunberg, etc.

Activities include: warm up game, discussions on powerful speeches and elements of speeches. Understanding ethos, pathos, and logos, as well as metaphor, simile, hyperbole, etc. Students analyse real world speeches. Writing project – write a speech about something they are passionate about using the elements they have studied in class. read commentary and fact-checking websites for JD Vances speech.