Performance Task "Inventor Martha Coston" focuses on Martha Coston's night signal invention. The author
claims that it was Coston's "desire to provide for her family and her determination to
succeed [that] made the Coston night signals a great success. Write an essay analyzing
how the author develops and supports the claim. Use evidence from the text to support
your response.
Your writing will be scored based on the development of ideas, organization of writing,
and language conventions of grammar, usage, and mechanics.
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1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

answer is b,

"the tracer looks harmless in flight, but the pilot’s bitten lips and white knuckles suggest how dangerous it can be."

it was correct.