Fact vs. Opinion

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Fact vs. Opinion

• An Interactive Exercise

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Directions

• Lets use what we learned yesterday and practice
  telling the difference between a fact and an
  opinion.
• Each slide contains a statement. Read the
  statement carefully, then click on either the
  fact or opinion button at the bottom of the
  slide.
• Use the back button to proceed to the next
  question and continue this same process for all
  questions.

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Question 1Abraham Lincoln was the greatest
president.
Fact
Opinion
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Question 2Marilyn Monroe was a movie actress.
Fact
Opinion
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Question 3Tiger Woods is the best golfer who
ever played the game.
Opinion
Fact
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Question 4Tiger Woods was the first African
American to win the Masters Golf Tournament.
Fact
Opinion
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Question 5Dale Earnhardt died in a NASCAR race
crash.
Fact
Opinion
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Question 6All Rap lyrics are offensive.
Fact
Opinion
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Question 7Charles Lindbergh was brave to
attempt to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Fact
Opinion
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Response 1 IncorrectAlthough Abraham Lincoln
was a president, whether or not he was the
greatest president is an opinion.
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Response 1 Correct! Although Abraham Lincoln
was a president, it is an opinion that he was the
greatest one.
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Response 2 Correct!Marilyn Monroe was in 29
movies. Since she acted in those movies, that
is a fact.
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Response 2 Incorrect! Marilyn Monroe was in
29 movies. This is a fact, not an opinion.
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Although Tiger Woods has won many golf titles,
whether he is the greatest golfer is an opinion.
It can be debated based on the amount of titles
he has won, but even this might not be the only
basis for evaluating him as the greatest.
Response 3 Incorrect
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Response 3 Correct! Although Tiger Woods
has won many golf titles, calling him the
greatest is an opinion. It is a topic open to
debate.
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Response 4 Correct! In the history of the
Masters Tournament, this is a fact. Tiger Woods
was the first African American to win the Masters.
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Response 4 Incorrect! Since no African
American had ever won the Masters before Tiger
Woods did, this is not an opinion, but a fact.
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Response 5 Incorrect! Dale Earnhardt died on
February 18, 2001 as a result of a crash during
the 2001 Daytona NASCAR race. This is a fact,
not an opinion.
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Response 5 Correct! Dale Earnhardt died on
February 18, 2001 as a result of a crash during
the 2001 Daytona NASCAR race. This is a fact.
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Response 6 Incorrect!Although Rap lyrics
often contain questionable language, whether they
are offensive or not is an opinion, not a fact.
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Response 6 Correct!

• Although Rap lyrics often contain bad or
  questionable language, whether this makes them
  offensive or not is an opinion.

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Response 7 Incorrect!

• Many people thought Lindberghs attempt to fly
  nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean was foolhardy
  rather than brave. Although he was successful,
  calling him brave is a value judgment and an
  opinion rather than a fact.

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Response 7 Correct!

• Many people thought Lindberghs idea was
  foolhardy rather than brave. Calling this a
  brave act may be considered a reasonable
  argument, but it is not a fact.

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Share with a Partner

• Turn and talk to the person next to you. Give
  them one fact and one opinion statement about
  yourself. See if they can determine the fact vs
  the opinion.

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Students Need More Sleep!!!!
Please help your sixth grade teachers convince
the Lunsford administration that middle school
students need more sleep and should be able to
come to school later. List 3 reasons why sixth
graders should start school at 900A.M. Please
be ready to share your reasons for the class
list.
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What is this list missing?

• In order to be persuasive, we need facts that
  back up our claim.

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FACTS!!!!

• Claim
• Factual Information
• A strong persuasive argument
• Persuasion should include facts to support your
  claim.

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Facts that students require more sleep.

• 60 of all middle school kids report extreme
  daytime sleepiness.
• Over 25 percent fall asleep in class at least
  once a week
• moodiness, depression, and even binge eatingare
  actually symptoms of chronic sleep deprivation.
• Students that are fully rested outperform Drowsy
  students by more than 15

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After the Facts
After the facts are added to our list, we now
have a strong argument!
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Practice Identifying facts and opinions in a
passage.

• Area 51
• Area 51 is a military facility approximately
  90 miles north of Las Vegas. At the center of the
  site there sits a large air base. Area 51 is also
  the site of a U.S. Government UFO cover-up. This
  is one of the strangest places that you can ever
  visit. "The government is hiding the remains of
  alien spacecraft there," says Sarah Mitchell, a
  long-time resident from the surrounding area.

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AREA 51 (continued)

• The possibility of aliens draws visitors
• to the area. There is even a book for visitors
  seeking information. Written by Glenn Campbell,
  it is titled Area 51 Viewers Guide. It is the
  best and most informative book available on Area
  51. More than 100,000 people purchased this book