Logical Fallacies

You should do this because I said so!

Step one: go to my website and then to your course page

Step two: find the LOGICAL FALLACIES item toward the bottom. Print it.

Step three: find resources on logical fallacies to help you with this task. Start with your book, Everything's An Argument (ch 19) and then take to the internet. Try this or this. Google this, people, Google this. Here's yet another site that deals with logical fallacies. There are many others. Go find them!

Step four:  Read the directions.

Step five:Work your way through the examples. There are about 20 of them; you needn't do all of them, but do at least 10. Write on the sheet (in the margins) or on another sheet of paper. The goal is to sniff out and name the logical fallacies present in the arguments provided. It will require full attention and focus. Shut out everything else and let your brain work. Is the argument logical? Do the premises lead to the conclusion? When you think you've detected the fallacy and correctly named it, make sure you will remember tomorrow why you thought it was that one. If you cannot figure out what to name it, at least explain how the argument works (or doesn't). Explain the problem.

BLA meeting #1 tomorrow. Make sure you review the handout about this practice and that everyone knows what to do for tomorrow and is ready to fully participate. 


Literacy Narrative re-writes are due on Friday. 

Holy Pathos, Batman!

These are just a few of many advertisements, campaigns, and PSAs that primarily use pathos (emotional appeals) to make their arguments. Or at least to make you take notice of their arguments. Feel free to link/embed any other similarly emotionally-charged videos that you find on your blog.

Some are powerful and effective, others are way over-the-top and basically rely on emotional warfare to make their point. Please be warned of the content if you are sensitive to any of these topics. The animated anti-bullying video is especially sensitive as it involves the hard issue of suicide as related to bullying.


Anti-bullying

Anti-bullying animation/poem

Mom Prison

Pfizer "More Than Drugs"

Kids see, kids do


Sad Monkeys Environmental Ad

Seatbelt

Epic CRJ Fail

Sorry folks, I forgot to collect your CRJs today. Well, 1st block, this mostly applies to you. It was mid-passing time when I realized this fatal mistake. I explained my realization to block 2. In an effort to be fair, I decided to collect them tomorrow instead of collecting some from one class today and some from the other class tomorrow. I hope you understand. Hey, I cut all y'all some serious slack on the blogging front.

Here's how this will go down:

Tomorrow, you will skip into class with a smile plastered onto your bright-and-shining face because you love AP Lang/Comp already, and you will produce, with a flourish, your glimmering specimen of a CRJ before I forget. Again.

Notice, I said CRJ. As in, just one. You wrote a CRJ for Didion and one for Orwell. Two of them. I just want one and you may choose which one to give me. It will be a for-points thing, but I know you're still getting the hang of it.

Capisce? Bene. That's in Italian BTW, and BTW means "by-the-way" in teenage/texting slang.

Do you want to drop my class yet? Ha. Too bad.