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It’s Logical. What Does Logic involve on the EoC ?. Making inferences and drawing conclusions in a text. Choosing a logical word to complete an analogy Analyzing cause/effect relationships in a text. Differentiating between the implied and evidence of a given argument.
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What Does Logic involve on the EoC? • Making inferences and drawing conclusions in a text. • Choosing a logical word to complete an analogy • Analyzing cause/effect relationships in a text. • Differentiating between the implied and evidence of a given argument. • 5. Identifying a statement that reveals the author’s biases, stereotypes, assumptions, or values in a writing sample. • 6. Identifying the false premise in a text. • 7. Identify the main claims, evidence, or conclusion of a given argument. • 8. Select a rebuttal statement that best refutes a writer’s viewpoint. • 9. Distinguish the strongest or weakest point of a given argument.
Performance Indicator: 3003.5.7 Differentiate between theimplied and stated evidence of a given argument.
Performance Indicator: 3003.5.12 Select an additional sentence to add to an argument within a persuasive text.
Performance Indicator: 3003.5.13 Select a rebuttal statementthat best refutes the writer’s viewpoint.
KEY TERMS • Argument: A conclusion together with the premises that support it. • Premise: A reason offered as support for another claim. • Conclusion: A claim that is supported by a premise. • Valid: An argument whose premises genuinely support its conclusion. • Unsound: An argument that has at least one false premise. • Fallacy: An argument that relies upon faulty reasoning.
Monty Python’s Witch Trial • http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=77486
Breakdown of the Argument • 1. All witches are things that can burn. • 2. All things that can burn are made of wood. • 3. Therefore, all witches are made of wood. (from 1 & 2) • 4. All things that are made of wood are things that can float. • 5. All things that weigh as much as a duck are things that can float. • 6. So all things that weigh as much as a duck are things that are made of wood. (from 4 & 5) • 7. Therefore, all witches are things that weigh as much as a duck. (from 3 & 6) • 8. This thing is a thing that weighs as much as a duck. • 9. Therefore, this thing is a witch. (from 7 & 8)
Examples • Example 1: Whichever basketball team scores the most points will win the game. Virginia scored more points than UNC. Therefore, Virginia won the game. • In Example 1, the first two sentences are premises and the third is the conclusion. The argument is valid, for the two premises provide genuine support for the conclusion.
Performance Indicator: 3003.5.10 Identify a false premise in text
Performance Indicator: 3003.5.2 Choose a logical word to complete an analogy
Performance Indicator: 3003.5.14 Distinguish the strongest or weakest point of a given argument.
Performance Indicator: 3003.5.12 Select an additional sentence to add to an argument within a persuasive text.
Performance Indicator: 3003.5.1 Make inferences and drawconclusions based on evidence in text.
LET’S PRACTICE INFERRING • Read this paragraph from a memoir and then answer the questions that follow. • I quickly packed my suitcase. I tossed in a change of clothes, a • toothbrush, and a hairbrush. Glancing at my watch, I zipped the suitcase • and walked to the front door. After I shut the window blinds, I pulled a heavy • coat from the closet. • 1. Based on information in the passage, what is a reasonable inference to • make about the narrator’s plans? • ___________________________________________________________ • 2. Write down any words in the passage that helped you make this inference. • 3. Which inference is supported by specific information in the passage? • The narrator has new luggage. • The narrator is going to take a short trip. • The narrator likes being outdoors in winter. • The narrator is going to the airport.
Cause AND effect • Causes and effects deal with reasons and results. • CAUSE- I left my lights on in the mall parking lot. • Effects- My battery ran down. I had to find someone with jumper cables. I was late to my doctor’s appointment. • Cause- I watched T.V. instead of studying for my history exam. • Effects- I failed my history test. My nine week’s grade went down 1 letter. My G.P.A. suffered. I didn’t get that scholarship to U.T. because that 1 “C” pulled my overall G.P.A. down too low for the minimum needed to qualify for it.