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 * SPEECH!**



Speeches are one of the most powerful ways of communicating messages to an audience and involve a lot of skill in terms of performing, creating, and researching. Speeches have been an extremely resourceful tool for influential people throughout history and have proven to be one of the most potent ways in which they gain influence and popularity. One example of this is the way in which Adolf Hitler is renowned (well known) for his ability to speak to the public in a certain way, utilising language to his advantage, he persuaded his audience to agree with his ideas and philosophies. This is an extreme example of how the use of Speeches can be powerful in a negative way, although influential people such as Martin Luther King Jr. have been extremely successful inn their ability to present a speech to the public that showcases a certain agenda and value, the purpose of giving a speech is to put fourth your own understanding and perspective on an issue, usually speeches are meant to persuade, lure, entire or inform their audience.

** ACTIVITY ** Using the outline that is below you are to write a Speech directed to the United Nations about the treatment of Prisoners of War, detailing Khalid's experience in the text: Guantanamo Boy, you are focussing on the idea of Human Rights and the treatment of Prisoners of War, make detailed reference to the text and Khalid's experience. It should be at least 1 A4 page in length. Once you have written the speech, you are to record your speech, I will make a page for you to upload your files onto on this wiki in the upcoming week! Good luck :)

I Have created an **outline** of what a Speech should look like when you organise and collate your thoughts, Click below to access this document: (I have saved this as a PDF file, so you should have no issues with formatting anymore).

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Here is a link to the influential speech by [|Martin Luther King Jr] Here's some food for thought!
 * What was his Agenda?
 * How did he express his agenda/ point of view?
 * What did he want to achieve with his audience?
 * Was it effective, why or why not?
 * What did the commentator at the end say about his reference to the Bible?
 * Why would this have been an effective tool to win over his audience?

ADOLF HITLER We will be looking at the context surrounding Adolf Hitler in much more detail later in the course, although here is the link of a video that incorporates [|a translated version of some of Hitlers most famous presidential speeches]to the German people, when you are watching the video, consider the concept of POWER. Power is an idea we visit in the study of both of our texts: Guantanamo Boy and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Here's some food for thought!
 * How did he use emotion to capture his audience (The German Nation)
 * How does the way he present himself show Power and Status?
 * What ideas is he talking about and trying to lure his audience into believing?