Prompt
Read the excerpt from Sonia Sotomayor’s opening statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Then write 1–2 well-constructed paragraphs that:

identify the speaker, audience, and subject of the speech.
explain how the speaker, audience, and subject influence one another.
describe the speaker’s persona and explain its rhetorical purpose.
Be sure to provide evidence from the speech to support your analysis.

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For full credit, be sure that your response does all of the following.

Sufficiently addresses all parts of the prompt and incorporates your learning from the lesson (from 0 to 60 points)
Provides supporting evidence from the text or resource as requested in the prompt (from 0 to 20 points)
Uses correct grammar and mechanics (from 0 to 20 points)
Please note that point values are wide-ranging and approximate, as prompt specifications vary from lesson to lesson.

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