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Tibbles. August 23. Pseudoargument #2. Student A: “Don’t take Mrs. Ankiel’s class, she grades way too hard.” Student B: “How do you know?” Student A: “I received a bad grade on my report card last year.”.
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Tibbles August 23
Pseudoargument #2 • Student A: “Don’t take Mrs. Ankiel’s class, she grades way too hard.” • Student B: “How do you know?” • Student A: “I received a bad grade on my report card last year.”
SAT scores and ACT scores have high success predicting college success (i.e. graduation). • Person’s Response: “But I know someone who had a low ACT score and still graduated from college!”
Hasty Generalization- an inference drawn without sufficient evidence. • Tricks to catching a hasty generalization: • - When people say ALL or imply something happens with an entire population. • - People are making claims based on a limited number of examples. • You must have sufficient evidence: Generally one needs statistics created and interpreted correctly.
Hasty Generalization- an inference drawn without sufficient evidence. • Defeating hasty generalizations: • Emphasize the trend. • Show examples of the trend being true.
Smith, who is from England, decides to attend graduate school at Ohio State University. He has never been to the US before. The day after he arrives, he is walking back from an orientation session and sees two white (albino) squirrels chasing each other around a tree. In his next letter home, he tells his family that American squirrels are white.
Write Round-Robin • We need one piece of paper per group. • Everyone needs a writing utensil. • No need to talk during this exercise! • I will provide a prompt • Write on one line an answer to the prompt. • Pass the paper to the next person • Read the previous responses. • Repeat
Prompt: • What are some characteristics of good writing?
Topic Sentences • States the position of the writer. • Some types: • Position • Compound • However
Forensics • Fundraiser • Want me to re-teach claim/warrant/grounds/assumptions?
English III • Prompt: • Imagine that you have the opportunity to travel back through time. At what point in history would you like to stop and why?
English III and IV • Objective: TSWBAT identify the anaphora technique and use the anaphora technique.
Anaphora • Anaphora (an-NAF-ruh): Figure of repetition that occurs when the first word or set of words in one sentence, clause, or phrase is/are repeated at or very near the beginning of successive sentences, clauses, or phrases; repetition of the initial word(s) over successive phrases or clauses.
Examples • "We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community." • -- Barbara Jordan, 1976 Democratic Convention Keynote Address
Sir Walter Raleigh. Good food. Good cheer. Good times. • Slogan of Sir Walter Raleigh Restaurant in Maryland.
Examples • Hillary Clinton in 1996 DNC Convention • Robert Kennedy Announcing MLK Death • FDR Pearl Harbor Speech
Prompt • Using all the steps of a good paragraph: • Topic sentence (claim) • Reasons/Details/Facts (warrant) • E’s (grounds) • Summary sentence • Write an argument to the school board supporting bringing local restaurants to the school for lunch. • Use at least one anaphora. • Identify the parts of the paragraph and the anaphora.
