D6 – Bellringer Reminder: get your essay out! Let’s take one last look and see if you can find any persuasive writing contests that we might participate in as a class (or perhaps just you!). We’ll be choosing one and then writing for it! After finding at least 3, continue taking a closer look at the following issues, and working on your paper: Gun Control Should More Gun Control Laws Be Enacted? Marijuana: Medical versus Recreational Should Marijuana Be legalized, or perhaps a Medical Option? Social Media Are Social Networking Sites Good for Our Society?

Writing an Argument, Part III Clipart source: flaticon.com D6 of Speech & Debate Writing an Argument, Part III Clipart source: flaticon.com

D6 – Research Paper Feedback Get together at a table, with 2 other students (Mr. Wright will join in as needed). Now, at each group, take your paper, and hand to the person to the left. Take 5 minutes to read it, and make sure that each person has a different colored pen to write comments on the paper itself and / or the feedback sheet with it. As you read, give feedback on the feedback sheet / or their printed assignment. Be nice about it, but don’t be afraid to be honest as well. We’ll do this 2, and then you’ll have your paper back. Then, spend the next 10 minutes discussing what you liked about each others’ papers, and what you might do to make them better.

Final 5: Logical Fallacy of the Day: The Broken Window Fallacy VID The Broken window fallacy (also known as Glazier's fallacy) is a logical fallacy which assumes that destruction and the eventual recovery from it yields a net benefit to society. Someone employing the fallacy claims that destruction is an opportunity to recover and establish a state which is better than the one which came before it.