The first half of your assignment is to turn your argumentative research essay from Lesson 2 into a speech. The second half of the assignment is to provide a works-
cited page that lists all your sources. You will also need to go back over the
parenthetical citations in your essay so that sources match up with the entries on
your works-cited page.
To prepare your speech, you must boil down your essay into an outline. Your outline
can appear on sheets of paper, note cards, or some other medium. You'll then
present your information out loud to your classmates, using visual aids to help them
understand your argument and get them interested. The visual aids can be the same
ones that appeared in your essay, or you can use new ones.
Your speech should include the following elements:
• An introduction that grabs the audience's attention
• An outline that makes the information from the Lesson 2 essay easy for you to
remember when giving your speech
• Visual aids, such as graphs and charts, that make the speech clearer and more
engaging
• A works-cited page that lists the sources from your essay and follows MLA
guidelines
Revised parenthetical citations that match up with your works-cited page

Read the excerpt from the war of the worlds.beyond the pit stood the little wedge of people with the white flag at its apex, arrested by these phenomena, a little knot of small vertical black shapes upon the black ground. as the green smoke arose, their faces flashed out pallid green, and faded again as it vanished. then slowly the hissing passed into a humming, into a long, loud, droning noise. slowly a humped shape rose out of the pit, and the ghost of a beam of light seemed to flicker out from it.forthwith flashes of actual flame, a bright glare leaping from one to another, sprang from the scattered group of men. it was as if some invisible jet impinged upon them and flashed into white flame. it was as if each man were suddenly and momentarily turned to fire.then, by the light of their own destruction, i saw them staggering and falling, and their supporters turning to run.which options accurately describe how the author develops the plot in the excerpt? (select all that apply.)the war of the worldsthe narrator does not react at first as he watches the men with the flag and hears the sounds in the pit. his inaction decreases the tension in the plot because the narrator is simply standing by.the narrator does not react at first as he watches the men with the flag and hears the sounds in the pit. his inaction keeps the tension steadily increasing as the narrator comes to realize the men are being killed.the narrator is distracted by his own observations of the men with the white flag and the humming sound, so he doesn't react as quickly as he should when the men are killed, thus extending the tension in the plot.the narrator is attentive to the men with the white flag and the humming sound, so he immediately understands what has happened when the men are killed, increasing the tension in the plot.