1. Year 8 ‘How to make friends and influence people’: can rhetoric change history? To understand the context of key historic speeches, and discuss whether successful rhetoric can change history.

2. Essential question: can rhetoric change history? Products: Timeline of events Poster summarising speech and its history ASSESSMENT: discursive essay: can rhetoric change history? (History and English) NOVEL: ‘Animal Farm’ by George Orwell

3. Colonel Tim Collins As Lieutenant Colonel (Commanding Officer) of the 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment of the British Army, Collins gave a rousing eve-of-battle speech to his troops in Kuwait on Wednesday 19 March 2003, during the Iraq War. The speech was recorded in shorthand by a single journalist, Sarah Oliver.

4. Map work Colour and label the modern places in the Middle East Label who lives there, and their religion

5. Egypt Iran Turkey Iraq Saudi Arabia Yemen Syria Afghanistan Israel Jordan Palestine Lebanon Oman Kuwait Qatar Judaism (Jewish) Christianity (Christian) Islamic (Muslim)

6. Persia Outline of Persia on a modern map of the Middle East