Decay School Start Times Josh Baker Analysis
We should delay school start times
There has been a long request to delay school starting times for a period from students and even teachers. In the speech ‘We should delay school start times' provided by Josh Baker, a year 11 student, discusses the issue of school start times. In his speech, Baker contends that school starting times should be delayed in order for students to get their well-deserved rest and do better in their studies. He aims to persuade his teenage peers and teachers in his attempt to bring forth this issue.
Baker opens his speech by saying ‘Good morning, everyone', a simple yet polite greeting that allows him to move on to the issue at hand. The speaker adds more dramatic effect into his greeting by yawning loudly. This
enables Baker to support his argument of students not getting enough sleep. Baker moves on to asking, ‘Are you tired?', a question aimed at his audience, mainly his teenage peers. By observing his audience and himself the speaker states that ‘I wouldn't mind a nap right now, myself'. He questions his audience by asking ‘Are we just lazy teenagers?', Baker presents this question as a way of sarcastically mocking adults who relate tiredness with laziness. He uses science to back his argument up by saying that puberty slows down our ‘biological sleep rhythms', meaning that ‘we sleep naturally stay up late and sleep in more'. Baker deploys inclusive language in his speech to relate more with his teenage peers. He argues that teenagers need a total of ‘nine to ten hours of sleep every night'. Through this statement, the speaker is gaining the support from his audience. He states that sleep is important as ‘this is an important part of our life'. Baker positions his audience
There has been a long request to delay school starting times for a period from students and even teachers. In the speech ‘We should delay school start times' provided by Josh Baker, a year 11 student, discusses the issue of school start times. In his speech, Baker contends that school starting times should be delayed in order for students to get their well-deserved rest and do better in their studies. He aims to persuade his teenage peers and teachers in his attempt to bring forth this issue.
Baker opens his speech by saying ‘Good morning, everyone', a simple yet polite greeting that allows him to move on to the issue at hand. The speaker adds more dramatic effect into his greeting by yawning loudly. This
enables Baker to support his argument of students not getting enough sleep. Baker moves on to asking, ‘Are you tired?', a question aimed at his audience, mainly his teenage peers. By observing his audience and himself the speaker states that ‘I wouldn't mind a nap right now, myself'. He questions his audience by asking ‘Are we just lazy teenagers?', Baker presents this question as a way of sarcastically mocking adults who relate tiredness with laziness. He uses science to back his argument up by saying that puberty slows down our ‘biological sleep rhythms', meaning that ‘we sleep naturally stay up late and sleep in more'. Baker deploys inclusive language in his speech to relate more with his teenage peers. He argues that teenagers need a total of ‘nine to ten hours of sleep every night'. Through this statement, the speaker is gaining the support from his audience. He states that sleep is important as ‘this is an important part of our life'. Baker positions his audience