What are the signals that tell me the difference between fact and opinion?

1. What are the signals that tell me the difference between fact and opinion? Bias and Tone

2. Hockey may be the fastest sport of all. Statements with these JUDGMENT words CANNOT be proven. Is this fact or opinion? How do you know? Bias and Tone

3. She wisely ignored the group of girls who were running their mouths. We know this ISN’T a fact because… These are called EMOTION words. Bias and Tone

4. With a partner, share as many judgment/emotion words as you can. Bias and Tone

5. Dover is the capital of Delaware. Seaford is the best high school in Delaware. Fish are perfect pets for small children to have. Bias and Tone

6. What are we learning? What are the signals that tell me the difference between fact and opinion? Bias and Tone

7. _____1. Washington, D.C. is the Capital City of the United States. • _____2. Walt Disney World is a family friendly theme park. • _____ 3. Whales are superior to dolphins. • _____ 4. Whales are mammals. • _____ 5. John Adams was the second president of the USA. • _____ 6. Stephen King is talented. • _____ 7. Abraham Lincoln was the best president we ever had. • _____ 8. Britney Spears sings better than Madonna. • _____ 9. Michael Jordan is the greatest player of all time. • _____ 10. Will Smith starred in the movie Men in Black. • _____ 11. There are glaciers in Alaska. • _____ 12. The Frenchman, La Salle, explored the Mississippi. • _____ 13. Every time you wash your car it always ends up raining. • _____ 14. There is no life on Pluto. • _____ 15. Cats are not as friendly as dogs. Bias and Tone

8. What are we learning? What are the signals that tell me the difference between fact and opinion? Bias and Tone

9. The Image of Congress • Congress’s lousy image is not new. In the nineteenth century Mark Twain remarked, “there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.” Today the public at best sees Congress as slow, chaotic and unresponsive to national needs. At worse Congress is a place of plotting, partisan rivalry and scandal. Part of this image is because Congress is doing what the framers intended—slowing down this process. The press has perpetuated this negative image by finding the misdeeds of a few members easier to report than complicated legislation. As the respected reporter, David Broder said, “Scandals in Congress even of a petty nature are easier to sell to most editors than stories of larger consequences.” • Curiously most congressmen may not care about the image of their institution; indeed they may even worsen it. There’s an accepted tradition of members running for Congress by running against Congress. By pandering to the public’s negative views of Congress, members can present themselves as lonely fighters against a corrupt legislature. The result is that people dislike Congress but reelect their own congressmen, over and over. Bias and Tone

10. Congress’s lousy image is not new At worse, Congress is a place of plotting, partisan rivalry and scandal. Today the public at best sees Congress as slow, chaos. Mark Twain said, “There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.” His remarks were: The implied main idea of this essay portrays Congress as having a negative image. Bias and Tone

11. USE what we have learned: List a FACT about what you learned today. List an OPINION WITH A SIGNAL WORD about what you learned today. Support that opinion with three details. Bias and Tone

12. How does a writer’s tone affect my understanding of the reading? Bias and Tone

13. You’d better watch your TONE, young lady! TONE expresses the author’s attitude about a subject. Bias and Tone

14. Ask the person to your left to define tone.Add to or clarify their definition with an example. Bias and Tone

15. What is the tone? Love is pink. It smells like roses. It tastes like kisses. It looks like him. It sounds like phone calls. It feels like hugs. Love is cuddling closely all night. Love is black. It smells like dirt. It tastes like vomit. It looks like death. It sounds like screaming. It feels like cold wind. Love is getting into a car crash. What helps you identify the TONE? Bias and Tone

16. What are we learning? What types of clues help us identify the tone? Bias and Tone

17. Pick a card….any card.. Using the TONE listed on your card, write a short description of going to lunch. What helps you identify the tone? How does the tone affect the writing? Bias and Tone

18. Tone Tag Get with a partner You must describe the photo with the tone given Bias and Tone

19. Hate Bias and Tone

20. Hate

21. Nostalgia Bias and Tone

22. Nostalgia Bias and Tone

23. Courageous Bias and Tone

24. Courageous Bias and Tone

25. Loneliness Bias and Tone

26. Loneliness Bias and Tone

27. Anxiety Bias and Tone

28. Anxiety Bias and Tone

29. Sadness Bias and Tone

30. Sadness Bias and Tone

31. Reflect on what we are learning How does a writer’s tone affect my understanding of a reading? Or…. How does they way the writer feels show up in the reading? Bias and Tone

32. What questions can I ask to determine if a reading is biased? Bias and Tone

33. Fewer than 1,000 show up at protest. More than 900 people attend protest. How many people came? What makes these two statements different? Bias and Tone

34. Bias • using words that might imply a positive or negative judgment • leaving out or including certain things • Images • Making OPINIONS sound like FACTS • Word choice and TONE Bias and Tone

35. Different types of bias Race Gender Location Preference Bias and Tone

36. Gender bias against women • Women as second class • nurturing mothers/caregivers • dutiful daughters • sexual/passionate women • mad/bad women Bias and Tone

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39. Think-Pair-Share • Do the women in the stories represent obstacles or prizes? How? • Would this story normally be read as supporting or challenging the oppression of women? • How would changing the gender of the main character impact the story? Bias and Tone

40. What are we learning? How can I tell if a story is biased? Bias and Tone

41. Sam Hughes article Read the article about Sam Hughes and come up with a list of words that describe him. Bias and Tone

42. You’re the boss and you HATE Humphrey! Choose which vocabulary words your reporter should use Choose a headline Explain your choices Bias and Tone

43. You’re the boss and you LOVE Humphrey! Choose which vocabulary words your reporter should use Choose a headline Explain your choices Bias and Tone

44. OTTAWA (UBI) Conservative M.P./warhorse and liquor baron/distillery executive Sam Humphreydenounced/denied today that reports/allegations implicating/involving him in undercover/subversive drug/dope retailing/peddling were true/had any basis in fact. Bias and Tone

45. Addressing a (dinner/blowout) for (colleagues hangers-on) at a (swank/exclusive) Ottawa restaurant, Humphrey angrily (denied/calmly refuted) (swarms of rumors/numerous reports) that he and a (gang/group of cronies/acquaintances) had (sneaked/smuggled) into (the nation's capital/Ottawa) (lethal doses/dangerous amounts) of (diluted/adulterated) ambrosia (under cover of dark/at night.) Bias and Tone

46. "Such talk is all lies," (snarled/said) Humphrey, (hunched over/seated)with a (tumbler of booze/an after-dinner cocktail.) Bias and Tone

47. (Rumour-mongers/sources) around Parliament Hill (suggest/hint) tonight Humphrey's alleged (crime/scrape) is the subject of (Cabinet investigation/talk). Meantime, Bay Street (analysts/mandarins) (note/point to the fact) that Humphrey stock has (plummeted/fallen) (in the last two days/suddenly) (in the face of/as a result of) (a wave of panic/selling.) Bias and Tone

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49. What questions can I ask to determine if a reading is biased? Bias and Tone