It’s time for … … Opinion Panels!

Setting: TV Show (The Rebuttal Source?) It hires low-budget talent to argue important issues, quickly (5 minutes) Teams take turns arguing and refuting the last argument Use your assigned fallacy at least once Use at least one syllogism Use no other fallacies. Reason with verbal citations, cause-effect, generalization, analogy The best team or teams get hired to star on their show

The show hires you, a young hopeful upstart multi-media personality You want to look smart You haven’t had much time to prepare You have to apply your fallacy You’re team will be yanked if you don’t do well quickly—better than your peers

Reasons: Prepare for rants Consider audience Practice rebuttals! Imagine creative ways to persuade Apply debate skills to conversational setting Focus on voice instead of body language Get a better idea of what’s going on in the world that people argue about!

The Show: Topics and Panels and Judges Each group presents their topics Judges previous group and next group Give points for good points Score the debate, share total score and 1- sentence reason

The Scoring: Give a score of 0-5 for each team (other than yours) Improve your team’s score with these: Awesome syllogisms and assigned fallacies Great rebuttals Completely acknowledge other side Refute totally and leave nothing out Bring up a new pro or con Begin and end with power Impressive voice improvements and obvious effort Volume changes Pitch changes Pauses Creative, entertaining speaking that helps us learn Using your assigned fallacy and no others Hurt your score by … … missing part of the rebuttal … going off topic … using humor to distract … failing to intro or conclude … not showing professionalism … not respecting the other team … forgetting to use your fallacy … using other fallacies

Rubric ____/55 ___ Acknowledges the other side (+) ___Counters with a complete refutation (doesn’t forget to address something the other side said) (+) ___ Bring up a new pro/con (+) ___ Begin and end with confidence and power/enthusiasm (+) ___ Stays on topic (+) ___ Changes volume (+) ___ Changes pitch (+) ___ Dramatic pauses/pacing (+) ___ Stays in character (+) ___Awesome syllogism (+) ___Uses verbal citation (+) ___ takes advantage of assigned fallacy (+) ___ Uses humor to distract (--) ___ Misses part of the rebuttal (--) ___Unprofessional (--) ___ Loses sight of the character or audience (--) ___ No intro/conclusion (--) ___ Off topic (--) ___ Is disrespectful to the other team (--) One sentence explaining the score:

Opinion Panels. Please sit with your group. What should we speak about?

Opinion Panels. Please sit with your group Opinion Panels. Please sit with your group. Keep planning a tremendous, informative, engaging (and maybe just a little bit heated) discussion.

Your task, meet with team Name your show Create your characters (not real) Pick your show’s topics Decide on each person’s response to the topics Create a logical plan for taking turns refuting Help one another apply the assigned fallacy --fill out your fallacy note card(s)

Your Task, Note Card. Turn in after panel. first side: topic, main point, assigned fallacy back side: explanation of how your fallacy will work (make sure we don’t get confused with similar ones)

___ Acknowledges the other side (+) __ Counters with a complete refutation (doesn’t forget to address something the other side said) (+) ___ Bring up a new pro/con (+) ___ Begin and end with confidence and power/enthusiasm (+) ___ Stays on topic (+) ___ Changes volume (+) ___ Changes pitch (+) ___ Dramatic pauses/pacing (+) ___ Stays in character (+) ___ Uses verbal citation (+) ___ takes advantage of assigned fallacy (+) ___ Uses humor to distract (- -) ___ Misses part of the rebuttal (--) ___Unprofessional (--) ___ Loses sight of the character or audience (--) ___ No intro/conclusion (--) ___ Off topic (--) ___ Is disrespectful to the other team (--) One sentence explaining the score:

___ Acknowledges the other side (+) __ Counters with a complete refutation (doesn’t forget to address something the other side said) (+) ___ Bring up a new pro/con (+) ___ Begin and end with confidence and power/enthusiasm (+) ___ Stays on topic (+) ___ Changes volume (+) ___ Changes pitch (+) ___ Dramatic pauses/pacing (+) ___ Stays in character (+) ___ Uses verbal citation (+) ___ takes advantage of assigned fallacy (+) ___ Uses humor to distract (--) ___ Misses part of the rebuttal (--) ___Unprofessional (--) ___ Loses sight of the character or audience (--) ___ No intro/conclusion (--) ___ Off topic (--) ___ Is disrespectful to the other team (--) One sentence explaining the score:

___ Acknowledges the other side (+) __ Counters with a complete refutation (doesn’t forget to address something the other side said) (+) ___ Bring up a new pro/con (+) ___ Begin and end with confidence and power/enthusiasm (+) ___ Stays on topic (+) ___ Changes volume (+) ___ Changes pitch (+) ___ Dramatic pauses/pacing (+) ___ Stays in character (+) ___ Uses verbal citation (+) ___ takes advantage of assigned fallacy (+) ___ Uses humor to distract (--) ___ Misses part of the rebuttal (--) ___Unprofessional (--) ___ Loses sight of the character or audience (--) ___ No intro/conclusion (--) ___ Off topic (--) ___ Is disrespectful to the other team (--) One sentence explaining the score:

___ Acknowledges the other side (+) __ Counters with a complete refutation (doesn’t forget to address something the other side said) (+) ___ Bring up a new pro/con (+) ___ Begin and end with confidence and power/enthusiasm (+) ___ Stays on topic (+) ___ Changes volume (+) ___ Changes pitch (+) ___ Dramatic pauses/pacing (+) ___ Stays in character (+) ___ Uses verbal citation (+) ___ takes advantage of assigned fallacy (+) ___ Uses humor to distract (--) ___ Misses part of the rebuttal (--) ___Unprofessional (--) ___ Loses sight of the character or audience (--) ___ No intro/conclusion (--) ___ Off topic (--) ___ Is disrespectful to the other team (--) One sentence explaining the score:

___ Acknowledges the other side (+) __ Counters with a complete refutation (doesn’t forget to address something the other side said) (+) ___ Bring up a new pro/con (+) ___ Begin and end with confidence and power/enthusiasm (+) ___ Stays on topic (+) ___ Changes volume (+) ___ Changes pitch (+) ___ Dramatic pauses/pacing (+) ___ Stays in character (+) ___ Uses verbal citation (+) ___ takes advantage of assigned fallacy (+) ___ Uses humor to distract (--) ___ Misses part of the rebuttal (--) ___Unprofessional (--) ___ Loses sight of the character or audience (--) ___ No intro/conclusion (--) ___ Off topic (--) ___ Is disrespectful to the other team (--) One sentence explaining the score:

___ Acknowledges the other side (+) __ Counters with a complete refutation (doesn’t forget to address something the other side said) (+) ___ Bring up a new pro/con (+) ___ Begin and end with confidence and power/enthusiasm (+) ___ Stays on topic (+) ___ Changes volume (+) ___ Changes pitch (+) ___ Dramatic pauses/pacing (+) ___ Stays in character (+) ___ Uses verbal citation (+) ___ takes advantage of assigned fallacy (+) ___ Uses humor to distract (--) ___ Misses part of the rebuttal (--) ___Unprofessional (--) ___ Loses sight of the character or audience (--) ___ No intro/conclusion (--) ___ Off topic (--) ___ Is disrespectful to the other team (--) One sentence explaining the score:

___ Acknowledges the other side (+) __ Counters with a complete refutation (doesn’t forget to address something the other side said) (+) ___ Bring up a new pro/con (+) ___ Begin and end with confidence and power/enthusiasm (+) ___ Stays on topic (+) ___ Changes volume (+) ___ Changes pitch (+) ___ Dramatic pauses/pacing (+) ___ Stays in character (+) ___ Uses verbal citation (+) ___ takes advantage of assigned fallacy (+) ___ Uses humor to distract (--) ___ Misses part of the rebuttal (--) ___Unprofessional (--) ___ Loses sight of the character or audience (--) ___ No intro/conclusion (--) ___ Off topic (--) ___ Is disrespectful to the other team (--) One sentence explaining the score:

___ Acknowledges the other side (+) __ Counters with a complete refutation (doesn’t forget to address something the other side said) (+) ___ Bring up a new pro/con (+) ___ Begin and end with confidence and power/enthusiasm (+) ___ Stays on topic (+) ___ Changes volume (+) ___ Changes pitch (+) ___ Dramatic pauses/pacing (+) ___ Stays in character (+) ___ Uses verbal citation (+) ___ takes advantage of assigned fallacy (+) ___ Uses humor to distract (--) ___ Misses part of the rebuttal (--) ___Unprofessional (--) ___ Loses sight of the character or audience (--) ___ No intro/conclusion (--) ___ Off topic (--) ___ Is disrespectful to the other team (--) One sentence explaining the score: