Monday, April 13, 2015

1. Person of the Year speech.

Person of the Year Persuasive Speech

REQUIREMENTS

1. Choose a person who you feel deserves to be the person of the year for 2014. This person needs to have had an impact on the world in some way.

2. You will create for this assignment:

- an outline

- a powerpoint 

- MLA (Modern Language Association) citations

- speech

3. You must use at least two of the most important means of persuading an audience:

-Ethos

-Pathos

-Logos

4. You will decide how best to incorporate your speech and powerpoint together to make the most effective impression. You may arrange for a partner to control the slides during your speech.

Time’s Person of the Year, 2010

The door opened, and a distinguished-looking gray-haired man burst in--it’s the only way to describe his entrance--trailed by a couple of deputies. He was both the oldest person in the room by 20 years and the only one wearing a suit. He was in the building, he explained with the delighted air of a man about to secure the ironclad bragging rights forever, and he just had to stop in and introduce himself to Zuckerberg: Robert Mueller, director of the FBI, pleased to meet you. They shook hands and chatted about nothing for a couple of minutes, and then Mueller left. There was a giddy silence while everybody just looked at one another as if to say, “What the hell just happened?” It was a fair question.

What just happened? In less than seven years, Zuckerberg wired together a twelfth of humanity into a single network, thereby creating a social entity almost twice as large as the US. If Facebook were a country it would be the third largest behind only China and India. Facebook has merged with the social fabric of American life, and not just American but human life: nearly half of all Americans have a Facebook account, but 70% of Facebook users live outside the US. It’s a permanent fact of our global social reality. We have entered the Facebook age, and Mark Zuckerberg is the man who brought us here.

MLA Citation

Grossman, Lev. Person of the Year 2010.  Time Mag., 15 Dec 2010. Web 22 Feb  2012.

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2036683_2037183_

2037185,00.html

Powerpoint Requirements
1. First slide has Person of the Year and the person's name.
2. Second slide has pictures of the person.
3. Third slide has background information about the person.

4. Fourth slide has pertinent information making your case for his/her being Person of the Year.
5. Fifth slide has all the sources written in proper format.


Speech Requirements 
1. Subject of the speech is the person who, in your opinion, impacted the world the most in the past year.
2. Included is any information about that person that would be helpful in proving your case and swaying the audience that your choice as Person of the Year is the correct one.
3. An argument will be made by you why that person should be chosen as Person of the Year.
4. Your presentation must be between two and five minutes long.
5. Although not required, an interesting anecdote such as the one about Mark Zuckerberg and Robert Mueller above can be helpful.


Timeline
1. Outline due on Wednesday, April 15. (daily grade)
2. First two slides of  powerpoint due on Thursday, April 16.(daily grade)

3. Third and fourth slides due on Friday, April 17. (daily grade)
4. Presentations due on Monday, April 20.
5. Presentations given on Monday, April 20, and Tuesday, April 21.


Outline Example (Yours may be different)
I.    Introduction
II.   Person
       A. Background
       B. Qualifications
       C. Accomplishments
       D. Impact
III.  Conclusion

Grading

There will be three daily grades as listed above.

There will be one more daily grade for the oral part of the presentation.

There will be a test grade for the powerpoint. Each slide will be 20 points.