Read this prompt.
What is the purpose of this presentation?
Create a presentation to convince the Hanover County
School Board members that the county should add a fall
break to next year's school schedule, creating a week-long
respite in October
to persuade the audience to add a vacation to a
proposed calendar
to persuade the audience to sponsor a festival for
school children
to inform the audience about school day requirements
for a county
to inform the audience about upcoming events in the
school calendar

Read the excerpt from frederick douglass’s speech “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ”go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through south america, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, america reigns without a rival.what is one way that douglass achieves his purpose of persuading the reader to see his point of view? by relating as many facts and statistics to the reader as possibleby using familiar and casual language to make the reader feel comfortableby using gentle language to evoke a sense of calm and tranquilityby repeating the word “you” to directly relate to the reader

Pretend that your local school board is considering cutting the study of world literature from the school curriculum. keeping in mind what you have learned about persuasive writing, state whether you believe this is a good idea, and then briefly describe one argument you would make to support your belief.

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