 Fallacies 101 Activity 3.13  Test – Lesson 48  OBJECTIVES  Identify fallacious logic, appeals, and rhetoric in sample texts.

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 Fallacy: a mistaken belief or a false or misleading statement based on unsound evidence

 I had been doing pretty poorly this season. Then my girlfriend gave me this neon laces for my spikes and I won my next three races. Those laces must be good luck...if I keep on wearing them I can't help but win!  Joan is scratched by a cat while visiting her friend. Two days later she comes down with a fever. Joan concludes that the cat's scratch must be the cause of her illness. A Banana In Your Ear

 Luke didn't want to eat his sheep's brains with chopped liver and brussel sprouts, but his father told him to think about the poor, starving children in a third world country who weren't fortunate enough to have any food at all.

 Harold, Call me! Harold, Call me!

 Don't Wake Up in a Roadside Ditch! Don't Wake Up in a Roadside Ditch!

 Go back to the selections in Unit Three.  Find examples of these fallacies in any of the following selections:  Page 192 “Facebook Photos Sting…”  Page 197 “Abolish High School Football”  Page 202 “Facing Consequences at Eden Prairie High”  Page 214 “Why I Hate Cell Phones”  Be prepared to share your examples with the class.

 Monday (periods 2 and 6); Tuesday (periods 1, 3, 4, and 7)  Modifiers  Definitions of bias, slanters, and fallacies  Examples of bias, slanters, and fallacies  Read an editorial and determine the claim, evidence, bias, slanter, fallacy