Friday Period 5: NAPLAN and Crafting a Speech

 In a blog post of your own craft a speech convincing the class to attend and cheer at the upcoming CAS Swimming Carnival.
     a. make sure you have a clear beginning, middle and end
     b. make sure you utilise at least 3 of the techniques we have been discussing
     c. highlight which mode of reasoning your are using (logos, ethos, or pathos)
     d. include one relevant quote in your speech (see MLK's 'I have a dream')
 Be prepared to deliver your speech in the first class of next week.


Pathos


You stand on the blocks before a 50m pool staring down to the end of the pool, to your goal, to where you will represent your school. You have woken up early every morning before school committing yourself to this very moment, not for yourself but for everyone else, weeks and months gone into training. Then comes the day where you stand on the block and all that could be heard was silence, not one person cheering after all the effort and days gone into training for your school only to be denied the appreciation that you have come here to represent your school and that your school does not care about your effort and commitment you have shown.


Wouldn't you feel demoralized at the fact that your school could not and will not appreciate your efforts and commitment to represent you? Would you swim harder and faster to win the CAS swimming carnival for the people cheering you on, cheering you to victory? These men of Knox have worked willingly to give us, our school the greatest chance of success but his will only get us half way there, we must hold up our end of the bargain we must cheer them on to get us all the way to the CAS cup, to success, to victory.


These men "cannot walk alone, and as" they "walk we must take a pledge and that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back" in those words by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. we must walk ahead of our fellow comrades cheering the Knox name, we must lay the path for our swimmers, so that our competitors will fear our name, "we cannot turn back" and they "cannot walk alone" so we shall walk with them to victory. So they cannot do this alone and we must help them win for us by cheering, shouting and yelling your lungs out for our own benefit but out of respect for the men who had worked trained every early morning to give us a chance of success at CAS swimming. We are Knox and we will win!! For us the swimmers and the men that have gone before us. Because this is our hour, our hour for success, for honor for our school and for the men who will swim for us.