Today we are going to discuss the importance of understanding the difference between opinion and evidence, especially when it comes to pursuading others to agree with us. The activity you are then going to do will involve working as a group (no choice!). You are going to count off into groups of four. We are then going to go over to the room next door where I will provide each group with an envelope. Your group will choose someone to be the dealer. That person will deal out the slips of paper in the envelope (upside down). Each person, one by one, will then turn over one of their strips. They will read it out loud and the person on their left has to determine if it is fact or opinion. The group will then either agree or disagree. You must have group consensus before writing "evidence" or "opinion" on the back of it.
Repeat this action until all of the strips have been labelled.
Once this is done, you are then going to group them separately as "evidence" and "opinion". I will then hand out the next part of the assignment which will be to pick a side on an issue and use the bast material you have to support it. One of you will be the "speaker" who will present your argument once your group has glued it onto a piece of chart paper (disgarding what you don't want or can't use). You will then present it to the class.
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