1. 12.12/ Tue/Wed
Objectives:
Recognize types and examples of logical fallacies.
Analyze a text rhetorically.
warm-up: Logical Fallacy matching! Woohoo!
activity 1: Singer Solution seminar
activity 2: Logical fallacy super fun extravaganza
close: Grad paper reminders
HW DUE: “The Singer Solution to World Poverty”
HW Tonight: “Love is a Fallacy” and Grad Paper
Upcoming:
12.18/12.19: grad paper due!
: Winter break
1.3/1.4: grammar 3
1.3/1.4: argumentation FRQ (formal)
: Midterms (argumentation test)
1.23/1.24: Begin diction/syntax/tone unit
1.23/1.24: Ch. 1 of Gatsby due

2. 12.12/12.13 warm-up: Logical fallacy ID fun!
I said this activity is fun; therefore you’ll enjoy it!
You’ll either have fun with this, or you’ll fail this class! (This is a two for one!)
Yeah! Who are you to threaten me with failing a class! After all, you failed Symbolic Logic in college, so you have no business lecturing me.
Wha’??? I have the right to free speech; therefore it’s right that I question your authority, chump!
Since you seem to think I’ll fail, you must think that the entire school system is a sham.
Hey! Why can’t you have fun with this? Everyone else is having fun!
I’ll have fun with this activity. And the next one. Soon I’ll be the best student in the entire school! I’ll be valedictorian just like Nick Syracuse!
Well, I had fun with this activity, and I passed my grad paper. I guess having fun caused me to pass my grad paper.
Post hoc
Equivocation
false dilemma
circular reasoning
straw man
slippery slope
non sequitur
bandwagon
tu quoque (appeal to hypocrisy)
C, F I B E H G A

3. Thank you for not eating me, Pete Singer.
By the way . . .
“[S]ince oysters don’t have central nervous systems, they’re unlikely to experience pain in a way resembling ours—unlike a pig or a herring or even a lobster. [ ] Even monkish ethicist Peter Singer sanctioned oyster eating [ ] before reversing his opinion. [ ] To justify the flip-flop, he wrote that ‘one cannot with any confidence say that these creatures do feel pain, so one can equally have little confidence in saying that they do not feel pain.’ This is unconvincing: We also can’t state with complete confidence that plants do, or do not, feel pain—yet so far Singer hasn’t made a stand against alfalfa abuse.”
--from “It’s Ok for Vegans to Eat Oysters” by Christopher Cox
Thank you for not eating me, Pete Singer.

4. 12.12/12.13 activity: Singer Solution seminar
Sit in small groups of 3-4.
Look through the seminar questions together and briefly discuss the text.
Write your names/levels of participation at the top of the handout.
If you plan on doing no or mixed participation, have paper with you.
Seminar will be 25 minutes (that’s a hard timeframe).
Spend 2-3 minutes afterward doing the reflection together.
Submit all stapled components to the front.

5. 12.12/12.13 activity: Singer Solution seminar
What mode does Singer begin his essay with? Is it effective? Does he come back to this mode?
Singer identifies himself as a “utilitarian philosopher” (5). What does he mean?
Why does Singer cite and quote from Unger’s book Living High and Letting Die?
Why does Singer focus most of his argument on helping children?
Singer begins using second person pronouns in paragraph 9. Why? When and why does he switch to first person?
Paragraph 13 appears to be fallacious. How so?
Why does Singer acknowledge that “[h]ypothetical examples can easily become farcical” (16)?
Singer claims that morality can’t be decided by “taking opinion polls” (17). How then is morality decided upon?
What counterarguments does Singer acknowledge in paragraph 19? How does he refute them?
“We are all in that situation” (final paragraph). What situation is that?
Who is Singer’s audience?
What is Singer trying to persuade his audience to do?
What is Singer’s tone?
What warrant (overall major premise) is Singer assuming throughout his essay? (There are probably only one or two.)

6. 12.12/12.13 activity: Logical fallacies ID time
It’s time for your monthly activity.
It’s a fallacies mix-’em-up! Hooray!
Find one partner, grab a worksheet and a computer, and get activity-ing.
One of the matching doesn’t have a corresponding fallacy. Bonus to anyone who can write-in the answer!

7. CLOSE and HW /12.13
CLOSE:
Some of you might be leaving early for Non-Denominational Winter Holiday Break Time.
If that is you, don’t forget your grad paper and grad paper portfolio is due by Friday. Let’s look at everything that should be in it.
HW:
“Love is a Fallacy” (all of the things that go along with it)
GRAD PAPER (everything housed in a plain, tan file folder):
Checklist (everything should be checked besides the final two spaces) (you need to sign it, too)
Grad paper rubric (print a new one if you’ve lost it)
Final grad paper (w/ electronic submission)
Topic approval form
Outline
First rough draft
Final rough draft
Any additional drafts and/or materials.