After gathering relevant evidence, forming an opinion, and creating an outline, it’s time to write a persuasive essay. Your purpose for writing this essay will be to defend your opinion. You will use your outline and the thesis statement to write the essay. You can use this essay as a reference while completing your own essay. Use the checklist below while writing your essay. You should be familiar with these checklist elements because they have been covered in this unit as well as other lessons throughout the course. Refer to this check list while writing the essay. After you have completed your essay, the next step is to make revisions. Learn more about revising essays. Next, proofread for grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors. You can refer to this source to learn more about proofreading. Submit the final draft of your essay below to your teacher.

Read this excerpt from i never had it made. "it's all that ought to count," he replied. "but it isn't. maybe one of these days it will be all that counts. that is one of the reasons i've got you here, robinson. if you're a good enough man, we can make this a start in the right direction. but let me tell you, it's going to take an awful lot of courage." he was back to the crossroads question that made me start to get angry minutes earlier. he asked it slowly and with great care. "have you got the guts to play the game no matter what happens? " "i think i can play the game, mr. rickey," i said. the next few minutes were tough. branch rickey had to make absolutely sure that i knew what i would face. beanballs would be thrown at me. i would be called the kind of names which would hurt and infuriate any man. i would be physically attacked. could i take all of this and control my temper, remain steadfastly loyal to our ultimate aim? which is the central idea of this excerpt?