{"id":22132,"date":"2017-03-08T17:56:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T21:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/?p=22132"},"modified":"2017-03-08T17:56:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T21:56:31","slug":"year-5-write-their-own-i-have-a-dream-speeches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/school-news\/year-5-write-their-own-i-have-a-dream-speeches\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 5 write their own &#8216;I Have a Dream&#8217; Speeches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/207471866\" width=\"200\" height=\"120\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As part of our topic on \u2018Space and Segregation\u2019 we have been studying in detail the famous \u2018I have a dream \u2018 speech by Martin Luther King Junior. After identifying all the techniques he used so well to make such a powerful and emotive speech, we decided to write our own speeches.\u00a0 Year 5 were encouraged to think of any issue at all that they felt really strongly about or wanted to change on a global or personal scale. The range of issues is both interesting and thought-provoking. The children then drafted and re-drafted their speeches in their best handwriting, ready for our classroom wall &#8211; please feel welcome to come in and read them. They then had to memorise their speech (as much as they could) before being filmed performing it. We hope you are inspired by their persuasive and compelling reasoning and formal, emotive language!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/207456021\" width=\"200\" height=\"120\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our topic on \u2018Space and Segregation\u2019 we have been studying in detail the famous \u2018I have a dream \u2018 speech by Martin Luther King Junior. After identifying all the techniques he used so well to make such a powerful and emotive speech, we decided to write our own speeches.\u00a0 Year 5 were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,17],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22132"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22132"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22135,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22132\/revisions\/22135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}