Speech to Parents (Late because i was sick)

The Gettysburg Address and Convincing Your Parents to Let You...

1. Let's read the Gettysburg Address aloud and discover why this is such an effective but short speech.
2. HW: Choose a topic to convince your parents of and write a very short speech that can be delivered in 1 min. Write 3 versions of the speech using each mode of persuasion.

Convincing my Parents to let me play games mid-week (Late because i was sick)

Logos: 

Today mum/dad i have chosen to speak to about a rather controversial matter between us. You state that i shouldn't be allowed to play games mid-week because i start to create habits of 'doing games first and homework later'... thus resulting in lower results. But, wasn't it the case that the GDM told me that he has been hearing very good things about me? as well as my Year master? Yes this happened and this is fact: not made up accusations that you yourselves create. To furthermore illustrate my point i can show you a excel spreadsheet that my English teacher regularly updates showing results and in completions. You will clearly see that the only homework missing is this speech that i am currently delivering to you, and in actual fact the homework that i have completed shows the complete opposite to what you would expect, i have been getting high marks. Additionally i want to tell you an obvious fact - I've been playing games whilst doing homework and assignments and completed all these task before they were due.

So mum/dad i want you to look clearly at the facts and see that i have in fact still been showing dedication towards my school work with the presence of games. Hopefully i have shown that i deserve to be able to continue to play games mid-week.

Ethos and Pathos:

I have prepared this statement to convince you that i should be able to play games mid-week. Games are an accessory to life that lets me pass the time when i have finished my homework and have nothing better to do. Yet you deny me access to an alternative to watching TV, you know that i already read each night voluntarily: so therefore i am not wasting my time playing games were i could be doing something more wholesome. But consider this, when you were a child what did you do? Perhaps you lived nearby to your friends: Which i do not so i don't have this luxury. Or maybe you both did what dad did to pass the time, catching insects, or coincidently playing and creating board games - the primitive ancestor to video games. Whatever it might be imagine if your parents told you that you could no longer do that and you were restricted to a certain activity. You would be feeling the same way as i do and trying to convince your parents that you should be able to. 

Now i hope that you understand just how silly this denial is, think about, all i will do is watch TV in the afternoons: the same old crap that I've seen over and over and over again. But...i could instead invest my time in a different sort of device that i will actually appreciate, since i am 81st out of a few hundred thousand people at a certain game this time is not going to waste, and instead of wasting my time and learning nothing really represents on dad's phrase related to my shows 'Idiot box'. Please reflect on your own experiences as a child and think how bad it would have been to lose one of the most interesting things to do mid-week.