10/29/15 Do Now: -Take out your Crucible books and Post-it notes. Homework: -Extension essay due by 11/13 Content Objective: Students will gain an understanding of The Crucible and logical fallacies. Language Objective: Language Objective: Students will read The Crucible as class and use Post-It notes to record their understanding and logical fallacies.

Name the fallacy!!!

Monday: McCarthyism and Allegory Tuesday: Intro Logical Fallacies Wednesday: Review Quiz and Homework Thursday: Start Act III Friday: Something Scary Look Ahead:

Complete one of the following assignments. Your written response will be evaluated based on the overall insight and quality of the response you produce. Keep in mind that this assignment is not required though all are invited to participate in this assignment that is designed to extend your knowledge and understanding of the texts we are studying. See Mr. Brill or Mrs. Cetinski before beginning your work. (100 points) Due Date: on or before Friday, November 13 th on Turnitin.com Note: Any assignment submitted past the deadline will not be accepted, so do not wait until the last moment to upload or to set up a TurnItIn account. Literary Analysis Essay: Based on our reading of The Crucible, write a literary analysis paper of at least two pages (Times New Roman, double spaced, 12 point) about of the following topics. Possible Topics for your Literary Analysis SOCIAL DRAMA PERSONAL TRAGEDY HYSTERIA SUPERSTITION GREED AND VENGEANCE AUTHORITY THEOCRACY JUSTICE EXAMINING THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF A WORK OF LITERATURE: The Crucible was written by Arthur Miller at a time of political unrest in America. A then little-known senator, Joe McCarthy, from Wisconsin claimed that there were large numbers of Communists, spies, and sympathizers inside the United States federal government and elsewhere. Miller believed that the public outcry that soon ensued paralleled the witch hunts that took place in Salem Massachusetts in The publication of this play ultimately led to Miller himself being blacklisted in his own artistic community. Research the events that took place at the time of this “Red Scare” and write a paper of at least two pages (Times New Roman, double spaced, 12 point) that shows how the events of the McCarthy Era parallels the conflict and plot of Miller’s play.

Emotional: Appeal to Fear Appeal to Pity Appeal to Popularity Ethical: Poisoning the Well Strawman Logical Fallacies: Faulty Cause-Effect False Dilemma Red Herring Begging the Question Faulty Analogy Slippery Slope Hasty Generalization List of Fallacies:

is an occurrence of bad or incorrect reasoning. Logical fallacies are the foundation of flawed arguments. Logical Fallacy:

Logical Fallacies… Flaws in an argument Often subtle Learning to recognize these will: – Strengthen your own arguments – Help you critique other’s arguments

Emotional Fallacies: (Pathos) unfairly appeal to the audience’s emotions. Ethical Fallacies: (Ethos) unfairly advances the writer’s/speaker’s authority or character Logical Fallacies: (Logos) depend upon faulty logic. Types of Fallacies:

Emotional Fallacies Fallacy:Definition/Explanation:Example: Appeal to Fear Attempts to frighten people into agreeing with the arguer by threatening them or predicting unrealistically dire consequences. If you support the president’s health care plan, you will lose your health care plan. Appeal to Pity Attempts to win support for an argument or idea by exploiting his or her opponent's feelings of pity or guilt. I was so sick last night that I couldn’t do the homework. Can I do it tonight instead? Appeal to PopularityEncourages the audience to agree with the writer/speaker because everyone else is doing it. You need an iPhone 6 if you want to fit in and be cool.

Ethical Fallacies Fallacy: Definition/Explanati on: Example: Poisoning the Well Attacks the person directly rather than examining the logic of the argument. We cannot believe the Secretary of the Treasury’s claims because he was fired from his job. StrawmanExaggerates a characteristic of a person or group of people and then uses the exaggeration to dismiss an argument. Students want it all: no work and high grades. We should not take their evaluations seriously.

Logical Fallacies Fallacy:Definition/Explanation:Example: Faulty Cause-Effect Confuses a sequential relationship with a causal one and assumes that event A caused event B because A occurred first. Throughout the 20 th century, women rallied for increased equality and independence, but equality came with a price: increased domestic violence and sexual harassment. False Dilemma (Either/or reasoning) Offers only two choices when more exist. Very rarely do only two choices exist. When someone limits intellectual possibilities, we should be suspicious and try to imagine alternatives. You are either with us or against us. Red Herring Attempts to shift away from the original focus of the argument. I might have wrecked the car, but you didn’t clean out the garage yesterday. Begging the Question (Circular reasoning) Attempts to prove a claim by using an alternate wording of the claim itself. Reincarnation is possible because I know I had previous lives. Faulty Analogy Makes a comparison between two things that are ultimately more unlike than alike. The differences between the things make the comparison noneffective or unfair, or the comparison misrepresents one or both of the things involved. A golf caddie and a football coach are a lot alike. Both are there to give advice to the players. Slippery Slope Assumes that a certain way of thinking or acting will necessarily continue or extend in that direction (like a domino effect). Such an argument suggests that once we begin down a path, we will inevitably slip all the way down. This exaggerates the effects of a particular action or idea. If the Supreme Court allows the police to set up road blocks, it will soon grant law enforcement fill license to inspect anyone at any time. Hasty GeneralizationDraws a conclusion about a group of people, events, or things based on insufficient examples (this often is the logical flaw behind racist, sexist, or bigoted statements) The best wine comes from California.