GWSC YEAR 12 ENGLISH

PRESENTING ARGUMENT 2020

SAC
TASK
For this Outcome, you are to:
1. Write a statement of intention explaining the reasons for your choices in the planning process of
your presentation;
2. Deliver a 5 minute oral presentation of your point of view on an issue chosen from the
selection below.

This outcome is out of 40 marks and contributes to your final Unit 4 score.

Presenting Argument SAC Details

Date & Time:
• Statement of Intention - Week 10 - 1 period written in class
• Oral Presentations - Week 11
Developmental work
• Outline (proforma) to be submitted to Learning task in Week 2
2020 ORAL PRESENTATION TOPICS
Below are the topics you can choose to present on. You have also been given links to articles that have
opposing views on the issue to springboard your research process. It is important that you conduct your
own extensive research of the issue to gain a thorough understanding of the issue.

1. Should social media companies be held legally accountable for the content they allow to
spread on their platform due to the consequences which affect Australians?
a. Muslim Group Calls Out Facebook's Failure To Combat Hate After Christchurch
b. Fires misinformation being spread through social media
c. Facebook sued by Australian information watchdog over Cambridge Analytica-linked data
breach
2. Should we change the way the men and women’s AFL competitions are currently labelled?
a. Should AFL be rebranded AFLM to reflect equal status with AFLW?
b. AFL 2020: AFLM name change, Jeff Kennett Twitter, Steve Hocking comments, AFL
women's, AFLW
c. AFL clarifies ‘AFLM’ position after Steve Hocking said league was ‘all ears’ to potential
competition name change in the future
3. Should the Federal Government discourage people from living in bushfire prone areas?
a. Bushfire rebuild: to rise from the ashes – or not?
b. Bushfires: We must rethink before we rebuild
4. Should people switch to a vegan diet in place of eating meat?
a. Is going vegan the healthier way to eat?
b. Vegan emails neighbours to stop cooking meat
5. Should the Federal Government take over the funding of the Australian Australian
Associated Press (AAP) to prevent its closure?
a. Closing down AAP will rob Australians of valuable news
b. Vale AAP - Media Watch - Media Watch - Media Watch
c. Australian Associated Press Newswire to close in June
6. Should Australia ban horse and/or greyhound racing?
a. It's time the ACT banned horse racing to stop the cruelty
b. Greyhound death revives calls for reform
7. Should Australia change the lyrics of the national anthem to acknowledge Indigenous
Australia?
a. Our national anthem needs some new lyrics
b. Alan Jones backs Cathy Freeman’s call to change the national anthem
8. Should Australia change its current deportation law for New Zealand citizens who are
long-term Australian residents but who have committed a crime?
a. Jacinda Ardern lashes Scott Morrison for 'testing' friendship over deportations to New
Zealand
b. Jacinda Ardern Calls Out Australia for Deporting 'Your Problems'
 2020 GWSC Oral Presentation Outline (proforma)
Year 12 English
Presenting Argument
The purpose of this outline is to get you to get you thinking about the issue you have selected and begin
some initial planning.

This outline is to be submitted to the relevant learning task week 2 term 2. You should make a copy of
this document and once you have completed it and saved it on your computer, you must submit it to the
learning task.

NOTE: this is the outline of your presentation and is not to be confused with your statement of intention
which will be handed in at the time of the SAC.

For this oral presentation, you will need to speak in a persuasive way on a chosen issue.

Name Prakrit Dayal

Topic/Issue 1. Topic 7- Should Australia change the lyrics of the national anthem
Choose from list to acknowledge Indigenous Australia?
provided

Contention 1. Australian SHOULD change the lyrics of the national anthem to

In response to your acknowledge Indigenous Australia?
chosen issue, what
is the main point of
your speech?

Persona (It is not Indeginous Australian( specific person undecided)

compulsory to
adopt a persona)
To further persuade
your audience,
have you chosen to
adopt a different
identity? (e.g.
yourself, student,
mother, politician,
CEO of _____)

Intended Australian general public, Indeginous rights activists

Audience
To whom will your
speech be
delivered and why
them?

Arguments Argument 1
What different
arguments are you What is is to be an Australian?
going to present to Outline values, multiculturalism, acceptance+ establish authority as a
support your Indeginous Australian + say most Australian people are Indeginous , white
contention? Australia
You are only Argument 2
brainstorming your Exaggerate how this isn't how the treatment of Indeginous
arguments here, Isn't Australian+ examples
not sequencing Stolen generation , etc
them.

Argument 3
Establish call to action
Why the anthem should be changed, rhetorical Q, end with an attack

Counterargument and Rebuttal

• What is an opposing argument presented against your opinion?
• What are you going to say to rebut this opinion?
Opposing argument- money/nationalism
We are all truly tourists living on the Indeginous land
What's more important? Money, or Australian values

Persuasive Techn Expert opinion

iques Appeal to patriotism
Provide at least Appeal to fairness/equality
three different
persuasive
techniques you will
use to persuade
your audience.

Research 1. https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/our-
List and hyperlink
three sources national-anthem-needs-some-new-lyrics-
(articles, videos
etc) that you have 20200220-p542t4.html
used to construct
the arguments to
your piece. 2. http://www.workingwithindigenousaustralians.info/content/History

_2_60,000_years.html

3. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-07/australian-anthem-

rewritten-citizens-constitutional-recognition/11487540

4.

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