Today we’re going to look at different types of logical fallacies

Logical Thinking and Argument

Then you will apply your knowledge by writing a paragraph arguing for or against one of the following positions:

• Hunger Games style tournaments should be held each year in St. Thomas.
• Twilight represents the pinnacle of literary achievement.
• Cats are better than dogs.
• Vegetarians are morally superior to the rest of the population.

Include at least 3 examples of faulty logic and be prepared to identify them.

Your questions for the persuasive essay are due today along with your analysis notes.

Then you will work on your outline for the persuasive essay. This is due Monday.

Persuasive Essay Outline Name

We are blogging in room 215 today. Don’t forget to comment on at least two blog posts after you’ve posted yours. Also please remember to return your reader’s journals to the folder so they can be marked.

First literature circle meeting for book 2.

Silent reading to start the class.

Then we’ll move on to the analysis notes and questions for the persuasive essay. See yesterday and Friday’s post for more information.

Good morning! Today we’ll start with some reading time (remember your first lit circle meeting for this book is Wednesday.)

Then we’ll move on to the persuasive essay.

We’ll begin today with a note on the persuasive essay, then we’ll do a pre-reading exercise by responding to the following poem by Walt Whitman:

When I heard the learn’d astronomer,

When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,

When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide and measure them,

When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,

How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,

Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time.

Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

Take a few moments and consider the degree to which you agree or disagree with the sentiment expressed in this poem and why. Jot down a few ideas and then we’ll share ideas in a four corners discussion.

Next you will read the essay “Science and Beauty” by Isaac Asimov and complete some analysis notes and discussion questions.

Please hand these in tomorrow.

Happy almost Halloween!

Today you need to submit your narrative essay outlines and read your lit circle novels.

Today we carve our class pumpkin!

We’ll get in some reading time for your novels and then we’ll take up the questions for the essay jigsaw style.

Your outline for your narrative essay is due tomorrow.

Today we will take up the essay analysis notes you worked on yesterday and then complete the questions for the essay as a class.

Next, you will complete an outline for a narrative essay that you could write. The completed outline is due Friday. Personal Narrative Essay Outline Name

We’re continuing with the narrative essay but we’ll start with 20 minutes of silent reading.