1. Bring 20 blank index cards for Unit 2 vocabulary next week!
February 12, 2015
Should Wild Animals Be Kept as Pets?
Homework:
Bring 20 blank index cards for Unit 2 vocabulary next week!
Have a nice long weekend! See you on Tuesday!
Objective
I can evaluate arguments and claims made in text and distinguish between logical arguments and faulty reasoning.
Warm Up:
We will first take the Unit 1 vocabulary quiz and then you will take the Scholastic Scope quiz. You can write your answers on both these quizzes. Just move your desks away from each other.

2. Argument support claim
the reasons or evidence that help to prove that claim. Support in an argument is usually for or against an issue.
claim
a writer's position on a problem or issue.

3. Turn to pg. 952 in your Lit book. Read the paragraph entitled
"Can We Ever Tame What's Wild?" and complete the the List It activity by making
a T-chart.
Animal
Advantages
Disadvantages

4. Persuasive Techniques

5. emotional appeals
messages that produce strong feelings, such as pity or fear

6. appeals to authority
references to people who are experts on the subject

7. loaded language
words with strongly positive or strongly negative connotations, or shades of meaning

8. Create a chart like this one in your notes
"Should Wild Animals Be Kept as Pets?"
Emotional appeals
Appeals to authority
Loaded language

9. A PREVIEW
Skim the essay's title and photographs. Based on these text features, what types of information do you expect to find in the essay?

10. B PREVIEW
Preview the article's subheadings. Why do you think they have been included in the essay?

11. C PERSUASIVE TECHNIQUES
Reread lines What emotional appeals are used in this section? Add this information to your chart. What strong feelings do these emotional appeals stir up?

12. D ANALYZE ARGUMENT
Identify the facts included in lines How do these facts strengthen the argument against keeping wild animals as pets?

13. E PERSUASIVE TECHNIQUES
Reread lines Record examples of the loaded language used in this section in your chart.