Introduce a close-to-home issue that you plan to write a speech on and provide a detailed analysis of the rhetorical context of this speech. (This assignment is adapted from the Check Your Understanding activity on page 171 of Springboard)

Think of an issue close to home where you feel a change is warranted. This issue can be related to your school, community, city, state, or nation; so long as it is something that affects the teachings, priorities, experience, or beliefs of you and/or your family, it is close-to-home. Construct a plan for a speech that you would give to the appropriate audience to convey your strongest message. In your plan, be sure to include the following in detail:

• Your role as speaker in this piece (concerned citizen, student, immigrant, military child…)

• The occasion that informs your writing (all of the circumstances that prompted this piece - what has happened to lead to this speech being given. DO NOT think of the assignment as context, but the situation in your life and society)

• Your audience (who are you addressing? Why? Who is your direct and indirect audience?)

• Your purpose (what goals/change do you want to accomplish?)

• Your subject (the topic of your essay)

• Your tone (your attitude toward the issue, the audience, and your opposition. These will be different! Explain why these tones are present.) How will your diction convey that attitude?

TO BE CLEAR: You are NOT writing the speech itself. This is a multi-paragraph explanation of everything that surrounds the speech you will soon be developing.

Goals are to develop strategies for effective argumentation through speech and explore the importance of context in the content of the speech.

Exemplary Work will have no apparent grammatical or mechanical errors with thoughtfully use rhetorical appeals and elements to create a convincing text.