Wednesday's lesson

Persuasive techniques

 Remember to include these in your speech and practise them when you rehearse

In your script

In your delivery

·         Rhetorical questions ·         Language choices ·         Quotations ·         Emotive language (language to appeal to our emotions) ·         Colloquial language to connect with the audience ·         Use of personal pronouns (you and we) ·         Appeal to other senses (power point) ·         Appeal to reason and ability to think ·         Statistics ·         Underline words for emphasis

·         Sound confident ·         Hand gestures ·         Projecting your voice ·         Eye contact ·         Emphasis on particular words ·         Speed (slow down!) ·         Expression ·         Using your power point refer to it! ·         Pause ·         Body language ·         Facial expression ·         Sound like you want to persuade the audience

Homework for Wednesday and Thursday

This is pre-planning for your persuasive oral. On Friday, I will discuss the answers to these questions with each of you individually. Email your answers to me before Friday's lesson please.

1. Which aspect or aspects of the representation of women in your fairy tale are you going to compare with the representation you find in your popular texts?

2. What are the two popular texts you have chosen?

3. What is the representation of women in your first popular text?

4. What is the representation of women in your second popular text?

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Questions

Year 10 English

Term 1 – Representations of women –

Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Episode 22 Season 7 ‘Chosen’

In analyzing the representation of women in a text, you should consider the following questions.

1.     What do/ does she look like? Pay particular attention to the question of whether she is considered beautiful/ physically attractive? Is she young?

2.     What qualities are valued in women in the text?

 

3.     What aspects of the text challenge the traditional representation you identified in your fairy tale?

 

4.     How is the message presented to us? Consider the positioning techniques discussed at the beginning of the term.(Character(Buffy in particular), costume, camera angles, dialogue etc)

 

5.     How are men presented in this text? (Consider power, hero, villain etc)

 

6.     Who has power in this text? Why do they have power?

     7.     Consequences: Who is rewarded? How? Who is punished? How?

     8.   How are women represented in this episode?