1. Happy Monday!
Please have out your List & your Argument notes from last week

2. 30-15-10 List Meaning: Prefix Meaning De Opposite, away, from
Dis, Dif, Di
Apart, not
Epi
Upon, on top
Equi
Equal
Ex, E
Out, From, Forth
Examples:
Eject
Exhale
Exit
Prefix:
Ex, E
Class Examples:
Visual/Memory Clue

3. Meaning:
Meaning:
Examples:
Disperse
Different
Examples:
Detract
Defer
Demerit
Prefix: De
Prefix:
Dis, Dif, Di
Class Examples:
Class Examples:
Visual/Memory Clue
Visual/Memory Clue

4. Meaning:
Meaning:
Examples:
Equality
Equitable
Examples:
Epicenter
Prefix:
Epi
Prefix:
Equi
Class Examples:
Class Examples:
Visual/Memory Clue
Visual/Memory Clue

5. From Claim to Thesis: Getting More Specific
Closed Thesis Statement:
* Main ideas of the argument
* previews the major points
* Typically three pronger!
Open Thesis Statement:
* Main ideas of the argument
* does NOT list the points the intends to cover
* usually used for longer essays, lots of points to cover
Counterargument Thesis Statement:
* summary of the counterargument precedes the
writer’s opinion (uses although or but)
* Advantage: immediately addresses the counter & helps the
transition later

6. From Claim to Thesis: Getting More Specific
Closed Thesis Statement:
Step 1:
* Call off by 3’s
Step 2:
* 1’s = Closed
2’s = Open
3’s = Counter
Step 3:
* Read prompts, develop
your assigned type of
thesis statement; write
on the paper…
Open Thesis Statement:
Counterargument Thesis Statement:

7. Exit
Choose ONE of the following statements & turn into a: Claim of Value & Claim of Policy
1) Gun control
2) Legalizing marijuana
3) Welfare reform
4) Gay marriage

8. Please have out your 30-15-10 List
Happy Tuesday!
Please have out your List

9. The Rhetorical Triangle
Exigence:
an issue, problem, or situation that causes or prompts someone to write or speak.
Ethos
Speaker =
Rhetorical Context
Pathos: Audience
Subject = Logos

10. Fallacies of Relevance
Logical Fallacy:
Red Herring:
Ad Hominem:
Faulty Analogy:
Weaknesses in an argument; failure to make logical connections between the claim & evidence
Using evidence that is irrelevant to the claim…used as a measure of avoidance
Type of red herring where the character of the speaker is attacked (against the man)
Compares two things that are not comparable but have irrelevant or inconsequential similarities

11. Fallacies of Accuracy Straw Man: Either/Or Fallacy: A.K.A.
False Dilemma
Occurs when a speaker chooses a deliberately poor or oversimplified example in order to ridicule and refute an idea
Speaker presents two extreme options as the only possible choices

12. Fallacies of Insufficiency
Hasty Generalization:
Circular Reasoning:
When there is not enough evidence to support a conclusion
Repeating a claim as a way to provide evidence, resulting in no evidence at all

13. Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc:
More Common Fallacies
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc:
Appeal to False Authority:
Ad Populum
A.K.A.
Bandwagon appeal
Latin for “after which therefore because of which”
Incorrect to claim that something is always a
cause just because it happened earlier
Correlation does not imply causation
Someone who has no expertise on an issue is cited as an authority
Evidence boils down to “everybody’s doing it”…

14. Please have out your notes from yesterday…
Happy Wednesday!
Please have out your notes from yesterday…

15. Happy Wednesday! Identify the Fallacy… Logical Fallacy: Red Herring:
A. Incorrect to claim that something is always a
cause just because it happened earlier
B. Using evidence that is irrelevant to the
claim…used as a measure of avoidance
C. Type of red herring where the character of the speaker is attacked (against the man)
Logical Fallacy:
Red Herring:
Ad Hominem:
Faulty Analogy:
Straw Man:
False Dilemma
Hasty Generalization:
Circular Reasoning
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc:
Appeal to False Authority:
Bandwagon appeal

16. The Rhetorical Triangle
Exigence:
an issue, problem, or situation that causes or prompts someone to write or speak.
Ethos
Speaker =
Rhetorical Context
Pathos: Audience
Subject = Logos

17. Types of Evidence: First-Hand
Most common
Adds a human element
Appeal to pathos
Speaker must be knowledgeable
“inside” knowledge
Personal Experience:
Anecdotes:
Current Events:
Brief stories about other people
Observed or told about
Appeal to pathos
Observation about local, national, global events
Beware of bias…seek multiple perspectives

18. Types of Evidence: Second-Hand
Facts from research
Gives background & context
Helps establish ethos of writer
Pitfall: do not misrepresent the event…
Develops a point of comparison to a modern event/problem
Historical Information:
Expert Opinions:
Quantitative Evidence:
Expert = published research
Expert = job/experience gives specialized knowledge
Things that can be represented in numbers
Statistics, polls, surveys, census, etc.
Appeal to logos

19. Two Readings “Felons and the Right to Vote”- (NYT, 2004)
Read & Annotate for
A. Claims & Types
B. Evidence & Types
C. Thesis & Type
D. Any Fallacies? Types?
“Global Warming is Colorblind”- (Orion, 2007)
Read & Annotate for
A. Claims & Types
B. Evidence & Types
C. Thesis & Type
D. Any Fallacies? Types?

20. Happy Thursday… you have a quick quiz!
Take about three minutes & look over your notes on claims, thesis types, and fallacies…
When you are done with the quiz, you will have the remainder of the hour to work on your Glass Castle assignment.

21. Take about three minutes & look over your Prefixes for 4:2
Happy Friday…
Take about three minutes & look over your Prefixes for 4:2

22. “When Will We Learn?” – F. Zakaria
Read & Annotate
Develop questions about:
A. Claim
B. Evidence
C. Fallacies
D. Tone
E. Opinion based….open
ended

23. How can we change the status quo at PHHS?
Connect to main points of the article
Develop ideas about:
A. Things that you’d like
to change
B. Solutions
C. Resources needed
D. Open-ended