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Warm UP (do you have your badge?)

Warm UP (do you have your badge?). Read the essay “The Lowest Animal” by Mark Twain and answer the following questions: How do you know this essay is a satirical essay? Show two points of evidence. What is the argument Twain is making? Do you agree? Why or why not. Agenda . WARM UP (20 MINS)

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Warm UP (do you have your badge?)

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  1. Warm UP (do you have your badge?) Read the essay “The Lowest Animal” by Mark Twain and answer the following questions: How do you know this essay is a satirical essay? Show two points of evidence. What is the argument Twain is making? Do you agree? Why or why not.

  2. Agenda • WARM UP (20 MINS) • Logical Fallacies Overview (50 mins) • Writing Your Own Fallacies (10 mins) • Overview of Speech Assignment (10 mins)

  3. Ad Ignorantiam • Claiming something is true because it can not be proven false

  4. Equivocation • Playing with language and intentionally being vague. • http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/72238/july-27-2006/better-know-a-district---district-of-columbia---eleanor-holmes-norton (2:45)

  5. Hasty Generalization • Making assumptions with too little information. • http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-january-28-2014/wage-against-the-machine

  6. Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc • Confusing a correlation with a causal connection • http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/422924/january-16-2013/pat-robertson-s-romance-advice

  7. Ad Hominem • Attacking/supporting the person rather than the argument • http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-october-1-2013/obamacare-begins

  8. Special Pleading • Using double standards to excuse an individual or group • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFHYiOfBRng

  9. False analogy • Assuming that because two things are alike in some respects they are alike in other respects • http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/422753/january-09-2013/gun-control-backlash

  10. False Dilemma • Assuming that only two absolute extremes exist • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-23kmhc3P8U

  11. Loaded Question • A question that is biased because it contains a built in assumption. • http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/216371/december-15-2008/great-president---or-greatest-president-

  12. Write your own satirical speech with logical fallacies • The US government should be allowed to use torture against political detainees • Evolution should not be taught in public schools • The drinking age should be lowered to 18 • Teachers should carry guns in schools • Reinstating racial segregation will prevent racists hate crimes. • Illegal Immigrants should not be allowed to stay in the United States

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