Activity In this activity, you’ll write a persuasive speech. Choose one of the following topics for your speech:

Convince your city government to build a hospital for veterans in your town.
Convince the city government to restore the veterans’ memorial in your town.
Persuade your principal to host a Veterans Day ceremony in your school.
Check with your teacher if you’d prefer to choose a different topic.

If you’d like, use the Notebook tool () to draft or revise your answers.

Part A
Write an introduction paragraph for your speech.

Part B
Write the first body paragraph of your speech.

Part C
Write the second body paragraph of your speech.

Part D
Write the third body paragraph of your speech.

Part E
Write the conclusion paragraph of your speech.

Part F
What is the tone of your speech? What words and phrases did you use to achieve this tone?

Part G
Rate the quality of the organization of your speech. Use words such as strong or needs improvement. Do you need to add additional information? What is your strongest area?

Part H
Now that you’ve finished writing, it’s time to review and revise your work. When editing your speech, use this editing checklist as a guide. To record your revisions, copy three sentences in their original form, followed by their revised versions.

Self-Evaluation
How did you do? Rate your work on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 as the highest score. Then write a brief evaluation of your work below. Note what you learned and what challenged you.

Read the following excerpts that illustrate darl's and cash's points of view from william faulkner's as i lay dying : from darl: read the following excerpts that illustrate darl's and cash's points of view from william faulkner's  as i lay dying: from darl: tull's wagon stands beside the spring, hitched to the rail, the reins wrapped about the seat stanchion. in the wagon bed are two chairs. jewel stops at the spring and takes the gourd from the willow branch and drinks. i pass him and mount the path, beginning to hear cash's saw.when i reach the top he has quit sawing. standing in a litter of chips, he is fitting two of the boards together. between the shadow spaces they are yellow as gold, like soft gold, bearing on their flanks in smooth undulations the marks of the adze blade: a good carpenter, cash is. he holds the two planks on the trestle, fitted along the edges in a quarter of the finished box. he kneels and squints along the edge of them, then he lowers them and takes up the adze. a good carpenter. addie bundren could not want a better one, better box to lie in. it will give her confidence and comfort. i go on to the house, followed by the          chuck.          chuck.          chuck.of the adze.from cash: i made it on the bevel.there is more surface for the nails to grip.there is twice the gripping-surface to each seam.the water will have to seep into it on a slant. water moves easiest up and down or straight across.in a house people are upright two thirds of the time. so the seams and joints are made up-and-down. because the stress is up-and-down.in a bed where people lie down all the time, the joints and seams are made sideways, because the stress is sideways.except.a body is not square like a crosstie.animal magnetism.the animal magnetism of a dead body makes the stress come slanting, so the seams and joints of a coffin are made on a bevel.compare how the two narrators tell the story of addie bundren's impending death. is either narrator reliable? explain what the reader learns about each narrator. be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer.

When i walked through arlington cemetery, i had a sense of reverence—a respect for the courage, dedication, and sacrifice of the souls buried here. using context clues, what is the meaning of reverence in the passage?

Thomas paine's common sense convicted colonists to