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Read this excerpt from a speech.Cherry Valley High School Chess Club was founded in 1988 as an after-school enrichment opportunity. The club has since won countless local tournaments and ten state chess titles. More than a dozen graduates of CVHS and its chess club are currently ranked as chess masters - and these masters have a plan. As an effort to bolster future club enrollment and chess knowledge, CVHS chess alumni are forming the Chess Prep Club. The Prep Club will offer tutoring sessions, structured play, and mock tournaments for students ages 10-14. Budding chess enthusiasts should seize the opportunity to learn from these greats of the game.

Read the lines from Langston Hughes's poem "I, Too, Sing America."Tomorrow,I’ll be at the tableWhen company comes.

Read this passage from "The American Dream."Through our scientific genius we have made of this world a neighborhood; now through our moral and spiritual development we must make of It a brotherhood. In a real sense, we must all learn to live together as brothers, or we will all perish together as fools. We must come to see that no individual can live alone: no nation can live alone. We must all live together; we must all be concerned about each other.

Read this passage from "The American Dream."Now may I suggest some of the things we must do if we are to make the American dream a reality. First I think all of us must develop a world perspective if we are to survive.

Which statement best explains why comparing Lincoln to a ship captain is an appropriate comparison?

Consider this speech assignment.

This photo was taken during the Great Depression.

Read the paragraph.Climate change resulting from greenhouse gases is a serious issue that demands immediate action. Throughout the world, we can already see the significant effects of climate change on people and natural habitats.

In "The American Dream" the speaker’s argument that Americans must come together as equals is supported by

Read this line from "O Captain! My Captain!".The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;

What transition would show you that the author is comparing two things?

Which line from "Long Haul" describes people of the sixties fighting for civil rights?

Read this passage from "The American Dream."America is essentially a dream, a dream as yet unfulfilled. It is a dream of a land where men of all races, of all nationalities and of all creeds can live together as brothers. The substance of the dream is expressed in these sublime words, words lifted to cosmic proportions: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness." This is the dream.

Read these excerpts.Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address."It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion – that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from this earth.Whitman’s "O Captain! My Captain!".My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won;Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!But I, with mournful tread,Walk the deck my Captain lies,Fallen cold and dead.