Mid-Unit Quiz

Part 1: Read and Analyze one of the two speeches on the following pages

A) Choose one of the speeches to read and analyze.

B) Complete a Big 5 document based on your analysis.

a) Emphasis should be placed on Style, Tone and Mood.
b) Use the persuasive tools posters and wheel of emotion to help in your
analysis.

Part 2: Create an original persuasive work

A) Use the speech as inspiration to create an advertisement or poem.

B) Your advertisement or poem can either support the main idea of the speech, or
work against it; either way, there should be evidence that the speech inspired
your work.

a) If writing a poem, utilize figurative language terms you learned in this unit
(see your Key Terms document). Identify those terms in your work.

b) When creating an advertisement, utilize persuasive tools we have studied

in this unit (see posters). Identify those tools in your work.
i) This advertisement can be completed by hand, using Canva, or as a
video.

Assessment Criteria:
This quiz is being assessed on

Criteria A: Analyzing (Part 1), and

Criteria C: Producing Text (Part 2).

Submission:
Upload the following to Managebac:
1) Your copy of this document (for your Part 1 analysis)
2) Your original poem or advertisement
Option A) Greta Thunberg's UN climate speech
Teenage activist denounces 'empty words' and lack of concrete solutions
SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

My message is that we'll be watching you. This is all wrong. I shouldn't be up here. I
should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young
people for hope. How dare you!

You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I'm one
of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are
collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is
money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!

For more than 30 years, the science has been crystal clear. How dare you continue to
look away and come here saying that you're doing enough, when the politics and
solutions needed are still nowhere in sight.

You say you hear us and that you understand the urgency. But no matter how sad and
angry I am, I do not want to believe that. Because if you really understood the situation
and still kept on failing to act, then you would be evil. And that I refuse to believe.

The popular idea of cutting our emissions in half in 10 years only gives us a 50% chance
of staying below 1.5 degrees [Celsius], and the risk of setting off irreversible chain
reactions beyond human control.

Fifty percent may be acceptable to you. But those numbers do not include tipping
points, most feedback loops, additional warming hidden by toxic air pollution or the
aspects of equity and climate justice. They also rely on my generation sucking hundreds
of billions of tons of your CO2 out of the air with technologies that barely exist.

So a 50% risk is simply not acceptable to us -- we who have to live with the
consequences.
To have a 67% chance of staying below a 1.5 degrees global temperature rise -- the best
odds given by the [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] -- the world had 420
gigatons of CO2 left to emit back on Jan. 1, 2018. Today that figure is already down to
less than 350 gigatons.

How dare you pretend that this can be solved with just "business as usual" and some
technical solutions? With today's emissions levels, that remaining CO2 budget will be
entirely gone within less than eight and a half years.

There will not be any solutions or plans presented in line with these figures here today,
because these numbers are too uncomfortable. And you are still not mature enough to
tell it like it is.

You are failing us. But the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The
eyes of all future generations are upon you. And if you choose to fail us, I say: We will
never forgive you.

We will not let you get away with this. Right here, right now is where we draw the line.
The world is waking up. And change is coming, whether you like it or not.

Thank you.
Option B) Yeonmi Park: One Young World Summit 2014
Speech
I have to do this because this is not me speaking, this is the people who wanted to tell
the world what they want to say.

North Korea is an unimaginable country, there is only one channel on TV, there is no
internet, we aren’t free to sing, say, wear or think what we want. North Korea is the only
country in the world that executed people for making unauthorised international phone
calls. North Korean’s are being terrorised today. When I was growing up in North Korea
I never saw anything about love stories between men and women. No books, no songs,
no press, no movies about love stories. There is no Romeo and Juliet. Every story was
propaganda to promote the Kim dictators.

I was born in 1993 and I was abducted at birth even before I knew the words freedom or
human rights. North Koreans are desperately seeking and dying for freedom at this
moment. When I was 9 years old I saw my friend’s mother publicly executed. Her crime
– watching a Hollywood movie. Expressing doubt about the greatness of the regime can
get three generations of a family imprisoned or executed. When I was four years old, I
was warned by my mother not to even whisper, the birds and mice couldn’t hear me. I
admit it: I thought the North Korean dictator could read my mind.

My father died in China after we escaped North Korea and I had to bury him, at 3am in
secret. I was 14 years old. I couldn’t even cry. I was afraid to be sent back to North
Korea. The day I escaped North Korea, I saw my mother raped. The rapist was a Chinese
broker. He targeted me. I was 13 years old. There is a saying in North Korea: “Women
are weak, but mothers are strong.” My mother allowed herself to be raped in order to
protect me.

North Korean refugees, about 300,000, are vulnerable in China. 70% of North Korean
women teenage girls are being victimised, sometimes sold for as little as $200. We
walked across the Gobi desert, following a compass, when that stopped working we
followed stars to freedom. I felt only the stars were with us. Mongolia was our freedom
moment. Death or dignity. Armed with knives, we were prepared to kill ourselves if we
were going to be sent back to North Korea. We wanted to live as humans.

People often ask me: How can we help North Koreans? There are many ways, but I
would like to mention three, for now.

One – educate yourself so you can raise awareness about the human rights crisis in
North Korea.

Two – help and support North Korean refugees who are trying to escape to freedom.

Three – petition China to stop repatriation. We have to shed light on the darkest place in
the world.

It isn’t just North Korean human rights, it’s our rights that the North Korean dictators
have violated for seven decades. We need governments around the world to put more
pressure on China to stop repatriation. In particular, Chinese delegates of One Young
World can play a part by speaking out. North Korea is indescribable. No humans
deserve to be oppressed just because of their birthplace. We need to focus less on the
regime and more on the people who are being forgotten. One Young World, we are the
ones who will make them visible. Fellow delegates, please join me as we make this a
global movement to free North Koreans. When I was crossing the Gobi desert, scared of
dying, I thought nobody in this world cared. It seemed that only the stars were with me.

But you have listened to my story. You have cared, thank you very much.
 Big 5 Analysis
Context: Who is speaking? Where are they speaking? Who are they speaking to?

Gretta Thunberg made a very strong speech in Italy at the UN with the purpose of
telling adults to make a change in the environment before it is too late.

Main idea What is their main point? What do they want her audience to know, think, feel,
understand or do?

Her point was to accuse the older generations of failing the younger ones and
stealing their childhood with their empty phrases and to raise awareness in the
society that they are running out of time and if they don’t start doing something about
it the new generations will pay the price of the actual adults. She is asking to have
some empathy and think about the terrible world and the complications that young
people are being left in charge of and all because adults don’t want to do nothing for
it.

Tone How would you describe their tone? What words and phrases make you think this?
What does this say about their attitude towards the subject matter?

I think that her tone is despair, sadness and madness. For example in this quote, “My
message is that we’ll be watching you. This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I
should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us
young people for hope. How dare you!”It is clear that she is mad and disappointed
about the older generations that aren’t taking action and just making excuses
because they don’t think that it is important to take care of the planet.
Mood What would the atmosphere in the room be like for the audience?

I imagine that if I was there I could feel a heavy and tense atmosphere because the
tone of the speech is aggressive and strong because she is brave and that makes
her powerful and that makes the atmosphere tense.

Style What persuasive tools are they successfully using to influence the audience?

The harmony of pathos, ethos, and logos in Greta Thunberg's speech is one of their
most engaging features. She employs pathos to arouse the audience's emotions,
ethos to impart her principles, and logos to convey the unavoidable truths that
prompted her to launch the school strike for climate change movement.