Lesson Plan for Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
MATERIALS NEEDED
1. Digital clock
2. Dry erase markers
3. Textbooks
4. Overheads for group activity
ON THE BOARD
Today:
· Continue press conference on sources
· Mini-lesson on Works Cited
· Discussion of logical fallacies
Friday
· Read S&S 3b & 3k on introductions & conclusions
· Bring draft of your introduction to class for peer review
OBJECTIVES OF THE LESSON
By the end of this class, students will learn:
1. How to put together their Works Cited page
2. How to avoid logical fallacies
3. How to choose sources discriminately.
CLASS ACTIVITIES
Routine Matters (2 minutes)
1. Call roll
2. Extra credit for voting… “I voted” stickers.
The Lesson
Preview the lesson: Today, we will begin a discussion of logical fallacies an how to avoid using them in our arguments. We will also finish up with the scholarly source press conference that we started on Monday.
Activity One: Continue with press conference on sources (15 minutes)
1. Get back into groups and keep talking about your sources, like we did on Monday…
2. Give 10 minutes of working time
3. For the next 5 minutes: Each group talks about what they discussed in their groups
Questions:
a. What kinds of sources did you have?
b. What suggestions did you make to each other to diversify your research?
4. Point of this activity is to examine the information we’re coming up with and to consider if it is good or bad information: if it’s good, it will help your paper immensely. If it’s bad, it will show and bring the quality of your paper down.
Activity Three: Works Cited mini-lesson (10 minutes)
1. Now that we’ve looked at our individual sources, let’s look at how to incorporate them into a Works Cited page.
a. Who knows what a Works Cited page looks like?
b. Why do we have one?
2. Write example of Works Cited page on white board
3. Questions?
Activity One: Logical fallacies discussion (23 minutes)
1. Please take out your S&S and turn to page 144…
2. What do we know about logical fallacies?
a. Flaws in reasoning that lead to illogical statements…attempts to manipulate readers by appealing to emotions instead of their intellects.
3. What are the different types of logical fallacies?
a. Hasty generalization: draws conclusions from inadequate evidence.
b. What are different kinds of hasty generalizations?
1. stereotyping and sexism
c. False analogy: draws a comparison in which the differences outweigh the similarities or the similarities are irrelevant.
4. Continue with all examples from Simon & Schuster: read them out loud and give the examples…
Closure for the Lesson
Review main ideas
1. Today, we learned about how to pick good scholarly sources, and we learned how to put those into a good Works Cite page for our RBAA.
Concluding the class
1. Reminder about homework due
2. Praise students for their good work, etc.
