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Read the following excerpt from Mateo’s speech to the school district on its snow day policy. When Mateo delivered the speech, he made sure to use many expressive hand gestures, a casual tone, and a varying pace.

“Our district’s current snow day policy was designed to balance the safety of students and teachers with the need to prevent disruptions to learning. However, the policy does not take into account the modern realities of the classroom. Our overly cautious policy calls for no more than five snow days per school year, with a preference for late-start over total cancellation. With online textbooks and lectures available to us, however, we can stay home without disrupting learning—so why maintain such strict limits?”
Which of the following statements BEST evaluates his delivery?

A.
A more casual tone was appropriate for the speech’s content and audience.
B.
A faster pace would have been more appropriate for the speech’s content and audience.
C.
The expressive hand gestures were appropriate for the speech’s content and audience.
D.
A professional tone would have been more appropriate for the speech’s content and audience.

User Samiya
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Answer:

the answer is D actually

Step-by-step explanation:

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Answer:

B. A faster pace would have been more appropriate for the speech’s content and audience.

Step-by-step explanation:

Mateo is speaking to the audience and refers to the audience as US indicating he is talking to fellow students about the injustice of the strict snow days.

Children are more likely to get bored listening to a talker with a professional tone or if the speaker is being more casual then the audience would think the speech is not important allowing the audience to miss the speech before it has even begun.

But by making the speech faster you are allowing the audience to begin to believe on their own about the injustice and it begins to work up their blood pressure.

Hitler was very good at getting the people to believe in what he wished because he made his speeches short and fast.

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