Graded assignment
persuasive speech
total score: of 100 points
during the next few lessons you will be planning, writing, and delivering a persuasive speech about an important issue.
to begin, save this document to your computer with your name at the end of the filename (e. g., ng_ela9-10_w_11_ga_alice_jones. docx). you will write your speech in this document and will continue to make revisions to it. you will submit this document to your teacher for grading.
refer to the persuasive speech assignment document and follow the steps to complete the assignment.
your teacher will score your assignment using the persuasive speech grading rubric. look at the rubric yourself so that you know how your assignment will be scored.
check with your teacher regarding the due date for your assignment, and for instructions on delivering your speech.

Read the excerpt from the land. in the late afternoon i did the same, but all the time i was on the stallion, i was aware that mitchell was watching me. he had appeared on the edge of the woods and had just stood there watching ghost wind and me as we went round and round the meadow. finally, on one of our turns past him, he said: "s'pose you thinkin' you a real somebody 'cause you can ride that stallion." i looked down at mitchell and stopped, knowing that despite our understanding, he was itching for a fight with me. now, i don't know what possessed me in that moment to say the next thing i did. maybe i was feeling guilty that because i was my daddy's son, i could ride ghost wind. maybe it was that, but it wasn't out of fear i said what i said. i no longer was afraid of mitchell. "you want to ride him? " i asked. mitchell took a step backward. it was obvious he hadn't expected me to say that. "you know i can't ride him," he said. "your white daddy'd kill me." "you want to ride him? " i asked again. mitchell looked at the stallion, then at me. "so, what if i do? " what intrinsic motivation does the author most likely intend the reader to infer from the passage? paul is motivated by his need to have mitchell praise his riding skills. mitchell is motivated by his need to have paul praise his riding skills. paul is motivated by jealousy and wishes he had free time like mitchell. mitchell is motivated by jealousy and wishes he could ride the horse.