A New Direction is an award-winning London-focused organisation that works to enhance the capacity and agency of children and young people across the capital to own their creativity, shape culture, and achieve their creative potential.
The organisation has a fantastic website which is an online resource for all kinds of project, events, ideas and activities, including this one which is part of their ‘Teaching for Creativity’ series.
History is shaped by individuals in particular times and places, tolerating uncertainty, daring to be different, sticking with difficulty and speaking up for making change. In these three learning sequences, pupils will explore key historic figures through their speeches that shaped and are shaping history: Martin Luther King, Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, Mary Prince, and Malala Yousafzai.
These learning sequences use the approaches of an actor to inhabit the life of a character. In exploring these figures and the powerful speeches they made, participants will be fuelled to explore their own sense of justice, what they feel strongly about, and what speech they will create for themselves.