President Barak Obama in a "National Address to America's Schoolchildren" at Wakefield High School opens with a warm welcome and acknowledgments of his broad audience. To gain the attention of his audience he plays on the pathos of his attentive audience by telling a story of his own childhood education. President Obama points out he got up at 4:30 in the morning, so his mother could teach him extra to stay up with an American Education.
Then following Monroe's Motivated Sequence, he explains to the students the responsibility they have for their own education and the need for each of them to not drop out of school. President gives a lengthy list of a wide variety of occupation and how they