1. g Your goal is to promote equality and opportunities for involvement in
the Xavier School mentoring program.
r You are an advocate for the empowerment of a developmental
disability group.
a Your audience will be high school students who are ignorant of the
issues at hand.
EDSOR has commissioned for an online campaign to help
s assimilate people with disabilities into the mainstream of
society.
Your advocacy shall be presented through a persuasive speech and a
p Keynote that highlights the facts about your chosen developmental
disorder, shares experiences and strengths of the people with the
condition, and proposes motivations for relating with each other.
2. Your success in this task will be determined by how effectively you gather
s and present pertinent information that would be useful for your purpose while
keeping your advocacy appealing to your audience. Content - 30%, Delivery/
Voice (as an advocate) - 30%, Diction - 20%, Presentation - 20%.
“There is no more
important element in the
technique of rhetoric than the
continual employment of the
best possible word. Whatever part
of speech it is it must in each case
absolutely express the full
meaning of the speaker. It will
leave no room for
alternatives”
-Winston Churchill