How would you handle the following situations? In your answers, refer to specific skills that you might use, and include words that you might say. Remember that a chairperson is a polite and tactful communicator.
a. Your social studies group is supposed to be discussing the causes of WW1. Selina is talking to a person in another group about yesterday's volleyball game.
b. Your group has been asked to analyse the ending of a story. Dan has a different view from everyone else and can't be persuaded to change his opinion.
c.Your science group has been assigned to do a presentation on pollution. After a half hour discussion, no agreement has been reached on what should be included in the presentation or what form it should take.
d. Your group is working on a series of questions related to a chapter in a novel. Andrew, one of the group members, has not read the chapter; as a result, he has no ideas to contribute.
e. Your student council has been asked to plan a Remembrance Day ceremony. Lisa has been sitting quietly, offering no suggestions or opinions.
f. Suppose that you are a member of the executive of your grad committee. you've been asked to organize a fund raising event. how would you establish a committee to assist you in planning a fundraising event for the grade 12 grad? give two or three specific ways that you would invite students to participate in your planning group and notify them of your first meeting?
g. As a chairperson, what important goals would you want to achieve at the first meeting of your graduation fundraising committee?
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