Energy

 

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/19086641.watch-incredibly-powerful-speech-8-year-old-girl-moving-teachers-tears/?fbclid=IwAR1L0wmc1vP8ASS1--g_5hoUCRVNY5XLq6jjzwNtFHE13BwihLS4lKC5sM0

Ummihani Hanif is an eight year old child in Year 4 in school in Blackburn, UK. Recently Ummihani’s class were asked to write a short speech with the title, “If I could change the world” and she chose to write a speech about equality which has now gone viral.

You can watch Ummihani’s speech in the link above. Listen not only to the words, but also to how Ummihani says them. This was part of an oracy project.

 In her speech Ummihani compares light bulbs to humans;

“We both are different colours, different shapes and different sizes.”

“We are both made in different places… some of us are clear and some are broken.”

She then goes on to say the most important part of the lightbulb isn’t its shape, but the energy running through it;

“In the same way there is a single energy running through each person on this planet. It does not matter what you look like. It does not matter what your race is. Gender – nationality – that’s just the bulb outside… inside is who you really are – energy.”

 “Energy is who we are and energy has no colour. Energy is not black or white. Energy is not Muslim, Christian or atheist. We are clever creative universal energies and if we understood that, we would finally know what wise men and women like Martin Luther King have been trying to tell us from the dawn of time. That we are one.”

-          Why do you think Ummihani begins her speech with the line, “If I could change the world..”

-          What do you notice about the way Ummihani delivers her poem, how does she use her voice?

-          How do you think she is trying to make the audience feel?

-          Why does she compare lightbulbs to humans?

-          “there is a single energy running through each person on this planet” is there? What does she mean?

-          “It does not matter what you look like. It does not matter what your race is. Gender – nationality – that’s just the bulb outside… inside is who you really are – energy.” What does she mean by this?

-          “We are clever creative universal energies” what does this mean?

-          Who was Martin Luther King and why do you think Ummihani mentions him?

-          What can we learn from Ummihani?

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