"He for She" Speech by Emma Watson, Complete Teaching Pack

Preparing for Women's History Month? Looking to incorporate some rich, unique activities for both boys and girls during Women's History month in your English class - or anytime of year?!?! With this low prep, highly engaging nonfiction speech lesson, you'll be set to have students analyze a modern text effectively and enthusiastically with little prep required.

Student Experience: This resource anchored with Emma Watson's Speech to the UN "He for She" is the perfect ready-to-go unit to practice comprehension of nonfiction texts and research in a modern context. Students learn that it’s not just a woman’s battle to fight for equal rights for women and equality in gender roles. As Emma Watson points out in her speech, it takes a community to make change and we must stand united. The questions with the speech are designed to have students truly dig into and respond thoughtfully and critically. After the speech analysis, students will launch in a short research and media project that asks them to investigate a progressive-minded man who had stepped to affect change for women.

Included:

• formal lesson plan
• link to text and audio of text
• standards-based
• answers
• graphic organizer for rhetorical style analysis
• Twidder summaries
• short research project with topic and rubric
• PDF format and ready-made-for-digital Google format

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