Prompt #1:
Role--High school teacher
Audience--School Board
Format-- A short speech
Topic--Cellphones

You are Mr. Supercilious, a very prim and proper old-school English teacher. You are dismayed that your high school is considering implementing a "bring your own device" (BYOD) initiative to your school. You want to convince the school board to vote the proposal down. Thus you write a short speech (a 6-9 sentence paragraph) using your strongest reasons and evidence to convince the school board.

Alright

Explanation:

Dear School Board,

As someone  who owns a phone there are many benefits to it like talking to people across the world sending and reciving mail in a snap of a finger. But in classroom where the top priority is to teach and educate the next generation I think that phones are a distraction due to the fact that a phone also contains games and other entertaining apps to keep students from doing their work. Cellphones also increase cyber bulling which is manly due to the fact that during high school you tend to care about what people say which can not only affect their grades but their mental health can also take a toll. School is not only a place for learning but is also a place where kids can socialize with each other and I think that cellphones will eliminate their need to talk to their classmates like when a group project is assigned instead of brain storming with each other all they need to do is take out their phones and get ideas off line which kills the creativity. Cheating also becomes a factor we have to take in mind because instead of passing notes like back in the day kids now just need to send a quick text about a question or go to the bathroom and send a text about a question and we wouldn't even know it affecting their ability to learn for themselves. In conclusion I see no reason why cellphones should be allowed into the classroom when it not only benefits the student in academic and social ways but it also allows us teachers to interact with our students but if they are always on their phones we as teachers would loose that privilege.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

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