Knowledge Organiser Year 9 Voices Against Conflict Overview

Knowledge Organiser: Year 9 – Voices Against Conflict Overview: This unit focuses on key conflicts that have taken place over a period of time and are still conflicts that we are facing in society today. During the unit, you will look at texts that show these conflicts from both an older, historical period and some texts that have been published more recently and are more recent. You will be able to analyse the language used by the writers of the texts, and evaluate how far you think we have made progress over the years. Week 2 and 3: It Shouldn’t Matter If You’re Black or Week 1: DIRT and Literary Terminology Week 4 and 5: Genders Unite: There are ‘Men’ in White. ‘Women’ During this week, you will be completing -Racism: where someone treats another person differently DIRT on your assessment from the previous -Emancipation: to free from restraint, control, or the because their skin colour is not the same as theirs. unit and reflecting on your work. You can power of another especially to free from bondage. Discrimination: the unjust or prejudicial treatment of use this as a solid foundation ready for -Repression: the action of subduing someone or different categories of people, especially on the grounds this new unit of work. something by force. of race, age, sex, or disability. -Suffrage: the right to vote in political elections. -Prejudice: preconceived opinion that is not based on -Adjective: A describing word. -Enfranchisement: to be granted the vote or the state reason or actual experience. of having the vote. -Abolition: the action of abolishing (putting an end to) -Verb: A doing word. a system, practice, or institution. • 1867 - The London Society for Women’s Suffrage -The Middle Passage: The stage of the triangular trade forms. -Noun: A person, place or object. in which millions of Africans were forcibly transported • 1918 - Women over 30 are granted the right to vote to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade. in Britain. Ten years later, this was changed to -Adverb: A word that describes how the verb women over the age of 21. is done. • 1619 – first kidnapped slaves were brought • 1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain’s first from Africa to USA. female Prime Minister. -Simile: This is where you make a comparison • 1955 – Rosa Parks refused her seat to a • 1985 - The Equal Pay (Amendment) Act allows women using the words, ‘like’ or ‘as’. ‘Her hair white person on the bus. to be paid the same as men for work of equal value. was as golden as the sun. ’ • 1968 – Martin Luther King killed, five years after his -Metaphor: This is where you make a comparison without using the words, ‘like’ or ‘as’. ‘Her hair was a golden sun. ’ • • famous ‘I Have A Dream’ speech. 2009 – Barack Obama becomes the first African-American President. • In 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, an anti-slavery novel which tells the story of Tom, a slave captured and beaten by his owner. In 1853, Solomon Northup (with David Wilson) wrote the tale of his kidnap and subsequent life as a slave on a plantation. As the suffragette movement grew, many of the women wrote diary entries or letters which helps us to piece together what happened. We can read the journey that they went on to fight for gender equality. • A hundred years later, women are still fighting for equality. Many famous women such as Emma Watson and Kamala Harris use their stage to argue that we need gender equality in society. • When we look at a text, including a diary entry or speech, we should consider what language choices might be interesting to us when we analyse. We want to think about connotations of these words. This means we consider what the deeper meanings are. • For example, when we see the word ‘crown’ we might associate this word with power, -Personification: Giving human characteristics, features of actions to something non-human or inanimate. • -Tripling (or tricolon): three parallel phrases or words, which come in quick succession without interruption. • In 2020, George Floyd was held down by police officers who choked him to death. This sparked worldwide protests and #Black. Lives. Matter became a huge force in the fight for racial equality. • When looking at a text, fiction or non-fiction, we need to think about the writer’s craft. What methods has the writer used to make their point? These methods might include particular adjectives or metaphors or -Alliteration: This is where several words start with the same letter, like, ‘Sizzling sausages spat in the pan’. -Onomatopoeia: This is where a word reflects the sound it makes, like, ‘bang’, ‘hiss’ and ‘smacked’.

Knowledge Organiser: Year 9 – Voices Against Conflict Week 6 and 7: Urgency for a Climate Emergency -Industrial Revolution: The Industrial Revolution was a period of major development and innovation that took place during the late 1700 s and early 1800 s. It was the transition to new manufacturing processes. -Climate Emergency: a situation in which urgent action is required to reduce or halt climate change and avoid potentially irreversible environmental damage resulting from it. -Smog: fog or haze intensified by smoke or other atmospheric pollutants. -Logos: Offering logic, reason and proof. -Pathos: Bringing out emotions, usually pity of sadness, in your audience. -Ethos: Building your own credibility so the audience trust you. • 1852 – The Great Smog of London went on for five days. A thick layer of air pollution, mostly caused by coal fires, had covered London and caused the deaths of thousands of residents. • 1972 – The first international environmental summit took place in Sweden. • 2015 – The Paris agreement recognises that climate change represents an urgent and potentially irreversible threat to humanity and must be challenged. • 2018 – Greta Thunberg starts protesting by sitting outside the Swedish parliament every Friday. She was 15. • • • As smogs became more common in London, there were several texts written about them. In the opening of the fictional novel Bleak House, Charles Dickens wrote about a huge fog hovering over London. There were also nonfiction accounts where people wrote letters or journal entries describing the climate in London. Flora Tristan’s account is just one of many which describes the heavy smog. A climate emergency has been declared across the world. Protests have taken place with Greta Thunberg becoming a famous figure and groups such as Extinction Rebellion forming. Is climate change being taken seriously enough? When looking at modern speeches, consider what Week 8 and 9: Religion and Culture: How does it create conflict? Week 11 and 12: Does Class Still Exist? -Ethnicity: belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition. -Persecution: hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of race or political or religious beliefs. -Anti-Semitism: hostility, prejudice or discrimination towards Jews. -Speaker: the voice in a poem. -Stanza: A group of lines in a poem. -Enjambment: Where a complete sentence runs on over more than one line of poetry. -Proletariat: The working class who must sell their labour to financially survive. -Bourgeoisie: The middle class who typically own most of society’s wealth. -Capitalism: An economic system where the country’s trade and profit is privately owned by the wealthy few. -Child labour: the employment of children in an industry or business, especially when illegal or considered exploitative. -Rural: An area or region outside of town or in the 1834 – countryside. A new law established the Victorian • • 1095 -1291 (and beyond but smaller) – The Crusades. Christian Europe tried to take control of the Holy Land in the Middle East and reduce the spread of Islam. 1588 - The Spanish Armada set sail from Spain, to overthrow the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I and restore Catholic rule over England. 1933 – Hitler rose to power; Jews were made second class citizens and then there was a mass extermination of Jews. This then led to World War Two from 1939 -1945. 2001 – In Osama Bin Laden’s letter, he claimed that the 9/11 World Trade Centre terrorist attack was a direct consequence for the persecution of Muslims around the world. workhouse system. 1900 - There were over two million servants in Britain at the turn of the century (80% of the population). 1948 - The NHS and welfare state were set up to take care of people when they were vulnerable and sick. 2018 – A study found that 30% of children in Britain are being born into poverty. • Anne Frank’s famous work The Diary of a Young Girl reveals what it is like to be persecuted during the Nazi regime and gave a voice to the devastating impact that religious and cultural conflict can have. There are many Victorian texts that show the extent of the class divide. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens and North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell are two examples. They show hard life was for the lower classes. • Different perspectives and ideas can also be presented in poetry and you should consider how poems present their viewpoint. You should also try to engage with some specific poetry terminology (see above). Imtiaz Dharker’s ‘The Right. Week Word’ of language Check when During 10 explores you will the sit power your Application it comes to religion and culture. and apply what you have learnt during this unit. It’s important to evaluate in English and you can do this throughout this unit. Do you think we still have a class divide today? Is Grenfell Tower an example of this? What impact has Covid-19 had on families in different classes? • Reflect on all of the conflicts that you have studied. Have we made progress? Are the voices against conflict powerful enough for change? Do we see mutual • •