The Power of Persuasion (Speech)
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ACTIVIST CAMPAIGN
Guiding Question:
What might be the most effective tools/norms of engagement to support human development?
Task for Evaluation:
It's time to put your new-found persuasive skills into practice. Write and deliver a persuasive speech that is
approximately 3-5 minutes in length. In designing and delivering your speech you are expected to use your
knowledge of ethos, logos, and pathos, and employ other effective strategies of persuasion. Once you are finished
writing your persuasive speech, you will record yourself delivering your speech! (Audio or Video files will be
accepted)
Context for Learning and Assessment:
Engagement in international diplomacy, particularly in the United Nations, recognizes a variety of interventions
and responses including international structures, NGOs, and citizen action. The student will consider the
implications of these options for the betterment of the individual and the pursuit of the common good.
Overall Expectations Demonstrated:
1.3, 1.4
2.1, 2,2
3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Phases of Participation:
1.
Framing the Issue -
i)
Students will, identify a global and national issue and engage in the discovery process assuming an individual
position based on discrete perspectives/experiences (e.g., government representative, social advocacy,
lobbyists, NGO representative);
2.
Identifying/Implementing Interventions -
ii) Students will evaluate various modes of intervention and determine the most appropriate actions -
governmental and nongovernmental - needed to address the cause and bring about change.
3.
Advocating -
iii) Students will create and orally deliver an impassioned speech that uses persuasive rhetoric and other well
established persuasive strategies to persuade others and delivers a clear call to action.
The student...
Knowledge
...accurately and appropriately describes facts, ideas, and concepts particular to the issue and
demonstrates a comprehensive, convincing response appropriate to perspective/experience.
Thinking
...represents the perspective/experience of their role in developing and supporting a critical
and creative intervention for the given issue.
Application
...generates and describes an effective call to action by employing a variety of techniques,
methods, and technologies.
Communication
...effectively and cogently presents findings persuasively with the effective rhetoric appeal
and use of specific rhetorical devices.
IDC 4UI
Planning your Persuasive Speech
Issue
‘Should Bottled Water Be Banned?’
Perspective
I think that plastic bottles
should
be banned in communities where clean drinking water
is accessible, but only if the use of bottled sugary drinks can also be banned.
Argument
-
Pollution caused by bottled water continues to be one of the largest preventable
contributors to global warming.
-
Bottled water does not have health benefits, compared to tap water.
-
Bottled water typically isn't recycled, leading to more pollution
-
When the option of bottled water is removed, the majority resort to buying other
sugary drinks, rather than drinking tap water.
-
The removal of bottled water not followed with the subsequent removal of
bottled sugary drinks does not solve the fundamental issue at hand.
-
Ban single use plastic bottles, however exempt those who do not have access to
clean drinking water from this bab
Call to
Action
As stewards of the planet, it is important for us to stand back and analyze the effects that
our actions have on our planet. In doing so we should also strive to inform ourselves as
much as we can about how our actions can affect us, our planet, and others around us.
Evidence:
Supporting Evidence
➔
In 2013, Canadians purchased
2.4 billion liters
of bottled water, which equals about
68
liters per person
.
➔
Studies estimate there are now 15–51 trillion pieces of plastic in the world's
oceans — from the equator to the poles, from Arctic ice sheets to the sea floor.
Not one square mile of surface ocean anywhere on earth is free of plastic
pollution.
➔
The fossil fuel industry plans to
increase plastic production
by 40 percent over
the next decade.
➔
Michael C. Bellas, Chairman and CEO of the Beverage Marketing Corporation, says
“Imagine a person cutting 161 hot dogs, 126 chocolate doughnuts or 87 cheeseburgers
from their diet last year. That’s the kind of difference we’re talking about when we
quantify the number of calories saved due to this widespread shift to bottled water.”
[
25
]
➔
In Aug. 2017, the National Park Service discontinued its policy that encouraged
national parks to ban sales of plastic water bottles stating that, “The ban removed the
healthiest beverage choice… while still allowing sales of bottled sweetened drinks.”
[
28
]
➔
The International Bottled Water Association noted, “research shows that if bottled water
isn’t available, 63 percent of people will choose soda or another sugared drink – not tap
water.” [
27
]
➔
Water supplied to many First Nations reserves is often contaminated, hard to access, or
at risk due to faulty treatment systems (Galway, 2016; Human Rights Watch, 2016).
➔
73 per cent of First Nations’ water systems are at high or medium risk of
contamination.
A single drinking water advisory can mean as many at 5,000 people lack access to safe, clean
drinking water.
Stylistic devices (check those you will use):
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Allusion
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Alliteration
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Analogy
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Anaphora
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Anecdote
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Closing by return
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Connotation
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Colloquialism
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Definition
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Expert opinion
●
Fragment
●
Humor
●
Hyperbole
●
Hypothetical scenario
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Imagery
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Illustrative example
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Irony
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Metaphor
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Parallel sentences
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Personification
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Quotation
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Understatement
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Repetition
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Rhetorical question
*For further description/identification, please see:
http://literary-devices.com/
Appeal Created in the Speech:
Logos
Establish credibility and trustworthiness by citing credible sources, and establishing a common
ground.
Ex. As proven by x, bottled water is one of the leading contributors to pollution.
Ethos
Speak with an authoritative voice, and wear appropriate clothing
Pathos
Admit personal wrongdoings (using bottled water), and talk about the parties negatively affected
by bottled water use.
Other Persuasive Strategies & how they will be used:
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Illustrative
example
Illustrate the amount of plastic bottles currently in our oceans
Ex. “There are 2,000,000 olympic sized swimming pools worth of plastic in our ocean”.
Personification
Address the earth and oceans with human traits to elicit compassion.
Juxtaposition
Compare and contrast the individual use of reusable water to the positive effects it could have
on a global scale.
Final Checklist:
Checklist Items
My speech has a distinct voice.
My speech effectively establishes the gravity of the issue being discussed
My speech has a clear call-to-action.
My speech contains ethos, logos, and pathos.
My speech contains rhetorical devices.
Throughout my delivery, I intently used volume, emphasis, pace, and pauses to engage my audience
I conscientiously decide on the mannerisms and/or props that might accompany my speech
My speech is 3-5 minutes in length.
Works Cited
Andrea Thompson. (2009). The Energy Footprint of Bottled Water. Retrieved from
livescience.com website:
https://www.livescience.com/3406-energy-footprint-bottled-water.html
Associated Press. (2020).
Tens of thousands of metric tons of highly radioactive spent nuclear
fuel sit in large concrete-steel silos, or dry casks, in many countries, awaiting permanent
disposal in a geological repository. These casks are at the Vermont Yankee Nuclear
Power Station in Vernon.
Center for Biological Diversity. (2018). Ocean Plastics Pollution. Retrieved from
www.biologicaldiversity.org website:
https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/ocean_plastics/#:~:text=Plastics%20pollut
ion%20has%20a%20direct
Client Earth. (2018). Fossil fuel and plastic: what’s the link? – We ask our lawyers. Retrieved
February 25, 2022, from www.clientearth.org website:
https://www.clientearth.org/latest/latest-updates/opinions/fossil-fuel-and-plastic-what-s-th
e-link-we-ask-our-lawyers/#:~:text=Tatiana%3A%20%22Most%20plastic%20is%20mad
e
Recycling Council of Ontario. (2015). Plastic. Retrieved February 25, 2022, from Recycling
Council of Ontario website:
https://rco.on.ca/plasticwaste/#:~:text=Canadian%20Facts%20and%20Stats&text=More
%20than%201%20billion%20plastic
The Guardian. (2019, October 1). How worried should we be about microplastics? Retrieved
February 25, 2022, from the Guardian website:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/02/how-worried-should-we-be-about
-microplastics#:~:text=So%20microplastics%20are%20between%20one
World Bank Blogs. (2021). 6 reasons to blame plastic pollution for climate change. Retrieved
February 25, 2022, from blogs.worldbank.org website:
https://blogs.worldbank.org/endpovertyinsouthasia/6-reasons-blame-plastic-pollution-cli
mate-change#:~:text=In%20fact%2C%20the%20plastic%20industry
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