THE BOTTOMLINE: Argumentative Speaking | A Peformance Task

 This task is inspired from Boy Abunda's show THE BOTTOMLINE. This task shall showcase the students skills in argumentative speech as they represent significant personalities in the Philippines to talk about how globalization has affected the PHILIPPINES in terms of the following: 

• ECONOMY
• HEALTH AND WELLNESS
• EDUCATION
• ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY
• POPULATION

The class will have varied roles, though experts may propose that students have one role to support the performance standards. I believe that students should see the bigger picture by letting them see their task is part of a whole and that each of them contribute to it regardless their roles. 

Here are the groups involved:

SHOW MASTERS

The show masters will be where the talk show host shall belong. Other than that here are the expected preparations the group shall be busy with.

• Aesthetics
• Technical
• Direction

Here's the template you could use for brainstorming and planning. Giving a template ensures that the students produce and actual output thus gets an in depth understanding of the task.

Click here to download the template. TEMPLATE HERE

GUESTS

This group comprises of the speakers who shall be considered experts in their designated fields. The speakers shall spend time with research, reading and drafting their speech. The speaker has to make sure he or she is able to speak guided by the following:

• Claim
• Supporting Opinions
• Discussion
• Facts

Use this matrix to draft and make an outline of your speech. This is to ensure that your talk is organized.

Click here to download the template. TEMPLATE

AUDIENCE

This group comprises of students whose task is to pay attention to the discussion the show may have covered. They will have to raise:

• questions
• reactions
• suggestions

This template shows that the audience too needs critical thinking throughout the show. They need to pay attention to the speakers in order to raise questions, reactions or suggestions.

NOTE: This one here is done prior to the activity.

NOTE: This one is to be accomplished during the activity.

Click here to download the template. TEMPLATE

ADVOCACY FRAMEWORK: Performance Task

 Let us first begin with what advocacy is. ADVOCACY is the giving or getting of support to support someone's rights, ideals and the like. By doing an ADVOCACY FRAMEWORK as a performance task for my students, Miss Ara and I agreed that it is a presentation of how the students extend their world in the classroom into the real world and craft a plan on how to be able to support, aid or make concrete master plan to augment the existing problems of the society.

In this task, we do not ask students to assume they are professionals, hence we make them think of prospect professionals or personalities who can help them make their advocacy happen. 

So here's the TEMPLATE.

ADVOCACY STRATEGY TEMPLATE

BACKGROUND

Brief and situational analysis. This part requires you to research about existing problems in your immediate society and the possible solutions that could be done to it. This is where your advocate comes in.

• What is the problem? 
• Present a data presentation like bar, line graph and the like to show significant result of a study conducted with relevance to the problem you have chosen. Take this one for an example.

• Why advocate on the issue? 

AIM

Long-term goal that the group wants to contribute towards

• Basically, what you are planning is not a one time solution. Imagine this plan to be running on schedule because once your plan is simply for the now, then it is not an advocacy at all. The goal is to ensure your plan goes on even when you are not there anymore to manage it. Because it is long term, it could be passed on and designated to the next in line.

OBJECTIVES

Specific Measurable Attainable Realistic Time-bound objectives 

• Do these contribute to the realization of your aim?

Hence, before you craft your objectives, it is always wise to that you have understood the aim of your project. So, go ahead and review it, then you can already start writing your objectives. Make sure your objectives are DOABLE.

TARGETS

Identify your target audience or in this case the group of people you want to help. Then think of effective prospects, meaning people who influences these type of people. Someone who might be able to make changes in the way the think or the way they live their lives.

• Who has the power to  make the necessary changes? 
• Who influences those people?

ALLIES/PARTNERS

Who can work with you to build momentum and support? 

• Now that you have already thought of influencers, it is time to think bigger. You would be needing established groups or personalities to work with you in order to promote your project, if not catapult it to success. Remember that you are but students, so you need big people, big companies, big names; if not big then at least someone or something established.

ACTIVITIES & OUTPUT

Now layout your plans in attaining your objectives. What sort of activities have you prepared and what expected output do you visualize your stakeholders shall have in each activity. Stakeholders would refer to the group of people you are trying to help; the one who will benefit your advocacy. Use a suitable graphic organizer for this one.

• Craft your policies
• Advocacy promotions
• Engagement of key stakeholders

Also present in a web diagram how your team plan on mobilizing your advocacy. Here's an example: 

This diagram is TOO WORDY, so when you make yours limit to a word or short phrases per box or circle.

KEY MESSAGES

• What is your message to your stakeholders? 
• What do you want them to learn in all this?

TIMELINE

Present a chronological arrangement of how your activities shall reach the attainment of your goal.

This sample timeline shows that the advocacy is short-term now you must be able to think of something long-term. Something that does NOT happen in a span of one week and it is done.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

What roles and responsibilities does each member of the team carry. Yes, the team. Use a suitable graphic organizer for this one.

BUDGET

It goes without saying that any advocacy without funding will be a struggle. Since you already have identified your benefactors in this project, it is wise to present a clear budget schedule for the project like transportation, food and other relevant expenses. 

• You must also bear in mind that budget goes with the span of time the project will run. Be it weekly, monthly, annually, quarterly, biannually or biennially.
• Expenses and time should be considered altogether.

TYPES OF TABLES | GRAPHICS FOR EXPOSITORY TEXTS

  Tables are used to represent data in the simplest manner which makes it a very convenient tool to understand information. 👀

 

Here are the components that should make up your table when you shall be tasked to make one.

🔆🔆 Title 

          ➖Provides a brief description of the contents 

              of the table.

          ➖Should be concise and must contain key 

              elements like categories, groups,  

              classifications, etc.

          ➖Should not be more than two lines.

          

🔆🔆 Table Number

          ➖Should be numbered so that they can easily 

              be referred to.

🔆🔆 Column Labels

          ➖The key to understanding the data is 

              through the specific column label.

🔆🔆 Table Body

          ➖The actual data found in the table.

Here are the types of tables:

📢Textual tables

A table number may not be necessary for a textual table.

📢Numerical tables

References:

Graphing Resources. LabWrite Resources. https://projects.ncsu.edu/labwrite/res/gh/gh-tables.html 

Types of Tables. BrainKart.com.  https://www.brainkart.com/article/Types-of-Tables_35065/ 

Statistical Tests on Tables. Displayr. https://docs.displayr.com/wiki/Statistical_Tests_on_Tables

  Originally published in

September 11, 2021

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How to ANSWER an ARROWWORD PUZZLE

An arrowword puzzle is not typical here in the Philippines; however it's about time to use another variety of crossword puzzle. This type is believed to have originated from Scandinavia as it is also called the Scandinavian crossword.

Here's a sample puzzle I made.

FEATURES

• ARROWS

These would signify where you should begin to answer.

• X

This may not be present in all arrowwords but this is one technique used to mean that you have to stop writing letters.

• SOLUTION

You may or may not see this in the arrowword you are answering right now but in case you see this then this only means the words you form in these sections are essential to the completion of a quote or to answer a question.

In this example, you'd see the quote to complete at the topmost portion of the puzzle.

Then somewhere in your puzzle you'd see the word SOLUTION. These are numbered in the order they would complete the quote or answer a certain question.

• GRIDS

Each empty box or grid requires only one letter. Depending on the creator, clues like given letters could be found.

So to answer the question: HOW TO ANSWER THIS?

• Start anywhere especially to the clues you are most confident. Remember, one box, one letter.
• Make sure to write where the ARROWS point to.
• If there are quotes you need to complete then you could find them in highlighted boxes. You could answer this immediately if the quote is familiar to you.
• If you see X, it means stop writing.
• If you bump into another clue, it also means stop writing ( I know, it's a no-brainer, but just in case.)
• Lastly review your answers.