1. PSD will be banning all secondary student cell phone use during the school day in the ’16 – ’17 school year.

3. Argumentative Thinking/Writing:

4. Learning Target #1 - 2/16/16:
Students will learn the five most common argumentative logical fallacies (thinking mistakes) to avoid in their argumentative essay.

5. Mistakes in thinking that weaken an argument.
Logical Fallacies
Mistakes in thinking that weaken an argument.

6. Straw Man
Ad Hominem
Black and White
Authority
No True Scotsman

9. Other Logical Fallacies

10. Learning Target #2 - 2/16/16:
Students will compose their argumentative body paragraphs featuring correctly-cited evidence from the podcast and/or personal research and include a warrant (explanation).

11. The Writing Process Drafting Revising Publishing / Sharing
Prewriting / Gathering of Ideas
Outlining / Organizing
Drafting
The Writing Process
Publishing / Sharing
Editing / Proofreading
Revising

12. Function of the Body Paragraphs:
Further and deeply explore the topic mentioned in the topic sentence
Provide a contextual lead-in to the cited evidence and a warrant or explanation of how the evidence proves the point (claim, counter, reply)

13. Body Paragraphs Tutorial

14. Body Paragraph Checklist:
Topic Sentence with Transition
Lead-in capturing the context for the cited evidence
Directly or indirectly quoted material from Serial or Research as evidence (paraphrases still cited!)
Correct MLA citation : (Koenig 11) episode #
A Warrant or explanation of the evidence’s significance.

15. The initial and glaring evidence that Adnan Syed murdered Hae Min Lee is the thorough narrative of the events of January 13th from Jay Wilds naming Adnan as the killer – a story that directly aligns to the cell phone records made and received by Adnan’s cell phone.

16. Sample Serial Citation
Topic Sentence W/Transition
Lead-In W/Context
On the night of the 13th after Jay and Adnan allegedly bury Hae’s body in Leakin Park, Jay and his friend Jen discard his shovels and clothes in a dumpster behind the Westview Mall (Koenig 4). This action of Jay’s is very incriminating because it obviously shows how much involvement he had in the murder and disposal of Hae Min Lee. Why would someone who claims his innocence in a murder be compelled to destroy the evidence? …(More Warrant Info. Needed)

17. Homework for Next Class…
Complete all of your body paragraphs for next class (3,6,9) – in preparation to compose your conclusion on Friday!