Emergency Plan Two

In case of school emergency closing, this is your second English assignment to be completed. Please respond back once you have finished.

Name:
Mrs. Woolley
Writing assignment #2- emergency lesson plans


High School Definition Prompt

1. Perseverance is a steady effort to maintain a course of action, purpose, or belief, often in spite of difficulty. Write a speech for a school assembly about the meaning of perseverance as it applies to personal success. You may use the following information as well as your own experiences, observations, and/or readings. The writing assignment should be at least one page or longer. Explain some of the quotes below and what they mean to you personally.

*Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. Source: Lance Armstrong

*I would go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before. Source: Jacob A. Riis

*Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. Remember no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost. Sometime, somewhere, somehow we shall find that which we seek. Source: Helen Keller

*It’s not that I’m so smart; it’s just that I stay with problems longer. Source: Albert Einstein

*If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. Source: Michael Jordan

*The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall. Source: Nelson Mandela.



As you write your speech, remember to:
• Focus on the meaning of perseverance as it applies to personal success.
• Consider the purpose, audience and context of your speech.
• Organize your ideas logically and effectively.
• Include specific details that clearly develop your speech.
• Edit your speech for standard grammar and language usage.