GCSE English Language: Rhetoric & Persuasion Workbook

GCSE English Language: Rhetoric & Persuasion Workbook is a five-mission activity book that teaches persuasive language through real, public-domain speeches printed on the page for close reading. Students analyse Mark Antony’s funeral oration from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, the closing lines of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, and the abolitionist voices of Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth, learning to name and explain the devices that persuade: ethos, pathos and logos, direct address, the rhetorical question, the tricolon (rule of three), repetition, metaphor, irony and antithesis. Close-reading questions are auto-marked on screen, while open tasks ask students to write their own persuasive paragraph and plan a short speech, building the writing the GCSE English Language exam rewards. Mapped to the DfE subject content and Assessment Objectives for reading and for writing to persuade. The whole book can be printed with a full answer key. Includes teacher, parent and student notes and is fully SEND-friendly with high-contrast and large-text modes.