Time Magazine Person of the Year 1927-2014
Person of the Year Persuasive Speech
REQUIREMENTS
1. Choose a person who you feel deserves to be the person of the year for 2015. 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.
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.
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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.
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. (There are many sites online to help you with this. You may use sites on the internet that do these automatically, if you are able. Also, there is a poster on the wall with helpful instructions.)
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.
6. Remember that this is a persuasive speech. Use appropriate rhetoric in your speech.
Timeline
1. Name of your choice for Person of the Year turned in at the first of class Tuesday, March 22. (daily grade)
2. Outline due on Wednesday, March 23. (daily grade)
3. First two slides of powerpoint due on Thursday, March 24. (daily grade)
5. Fifth slide has all the sources written in proper format. (There are many sites online to help you with this. You may use sites on the internet that do these automatically, if you are able. Also, there is a poster on the wall with helpful instructions.)
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.
6. Remember that this is a persuasive speech. Use appropriate rhetoric in your speech.
Timeline
1. Name of your choice for Person of the Year turned in at the first of class Tuesday, March 22. (daily grade)
2. Outline due on Wednesday, March 23. (daily grade)
3. First two slides of powerpoint due on Thursday, March 24. (daily grade)
4. Third and fourth slides due on Monday, March 28. (daily grade)
5. Powerpoints due on Tuesday, March 29. (test grade)
6. Presentations given on Tuesday, March 29, and if necessary, Wednesday, March 30
Outline Example (Yours may be different.)
I. Introduction
II. Person
A. Background
B. Qualifications
C. Accomplishments
D. Impact
III. Conclusion
5. Powerpoints due on Tuesday, March 29. (test grade)
6. Presentations given on Tuesday, March 29, and if necessary, Wednesday, March 30
Outline Example (Yours may be different.)
I. Introduction
II. Person
A. Background
B. Qualifications
C. Accomplishments
D. Impact
III. Conclusion
Grading
There will be four 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 15 points. The other 25 will be for the overall thoroughness and success in persuading me that your candidate is a good choice.
Take this speech seriously. I do not want you to make a ridiculous choice for your person of the year. For example, Channing Tatum, Kim Kardashian, Taylor Swift, and Justin Bieber may be interesting (or not), but they certainly did not make the biggest impact on the world in the last year. However, you may make a case for some celebrities whose films really did change things, or who did important things other than just make music or movies or such. The same goes for athletes. Like Jesse Owens and Jackie Robinson, some athletes rise above mere sports to make a huge impact on the world. Your father or grandmother may be a wonderful person, but again, I have to point out that since this assignment is not who impacted your own little world, neither is a really good candidate. If, on the other hand, your grandmother is Hillary Clinton, you might be able to make a good case. Whoever you choose, it may not be enough to simply make an impact... ask yourself if your choice made the biggest impact in 2015. Just because your favorite singer raises money for charity does not make that individual person of the year.
We have discussed the fact that someone who did terrible things could be person of the year. You may choose such a person for your person of the year. However, do not glorify that person and what he/she did. For example, El Chapo may have done a few good things that do not even come close to making up for the bad. Do not make him seem a hero.
The question would be brought up whether someone who is dead could qualify. Yes, if you can make the case that the person still made the biggest impact on the world in the last year. Another question is whether or not a group of people can be persons of the year. Again, yes. However, there will be no "Animals of the Year" or "Inanimate Object of the Year" or "Bacteria of the Year", etc. It must be a person or group of people, living or dead,
Finally, your opinion does count, but you cannot discount or ignore others' opinions. Communicating is more than just telling what you think. You must consider your audience, and in this case, the audience is me.
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