For the final exercise of this unit, your task is to write your first fully formed speech on a subject that is important to you. If you like, you can use the material you have already researched when you learned to research in a previous unit. You can also choose a new subject if you like, but you must be prepared to research it thoroughly in order to build up a strong argument. Then, using the various techniques we have discussed here, your task is not just to argue your case logically but also to present it using the subtle emotional power that comes from literary techniques. In the next unit, we’ll learn all about how to actually deliver this speech. It can be as long as you like, but it should be at least 700 words.

Read the passage below and answer the question. the old man was known for his probity. he was considered incorruptible. using context clues, how would you define the meaning of the word probity in the passage? curiosity drunkenness integrity corruptibility

When narrators can be trusted to tell the story the way it really happened, they are considered a. unreliable first-person narrators b. reliable first-person narrator

Read the excerpt from loom and spindle. but in a short time the prejudice against factory labor wore away, and the lowell mills became filled with blooming and energetic new england women. . they soon began to associate with those who formed the community in which they had come to live, and were invited to their houses. they went to the same church, and sometimes married into some of the best families. or if they returned to their secluded homes again, instead of being looked down upon as "factory girls" by the squire's or the lawyer's family, they were more often welcomed as coming from the metropolis, bringing new fashions, new books, and new ideas with them. what inference can be drawn about the time period of the excerpt? a. the changing workforce transformed society’s rules. b. factories improved local economies with new products. c. women with factory experience found other jobs easily. d. married women preferred factory work to homemaking.