Weeks+10-12+Argument+and+Persuasion+101

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"The purpose of the systematic study of argument is to perfect natural technique and then practice it until the right arguments for each situation spring to mind spontaneously. The way to do this is not to learn some grand theory, any more than the athlete needs to understand the physiology in order to jump or run. The best way is to analyze the argumentative practice of others, to understand it, and then adapt it to your own circumstances." Nancy Mason Bradbury

**Required Reading:** All Things Argument  [|How to Write a Strong Argument Pyramid]   [|Cause and Effect]   [|How to Write a Rhetorical Analysis]   [|Differences Between Literary Analysis (Criticism) and Rhetorical Analysis]   Examples of Rhetorical Analyses Argument Excercises Definition Francis Bacon "[|Of Studies] " Class "Of __________" Imitations [|Anna Quindlen “Homeless]” (definition and description) [|Peter Singer "The Poverty Solution"] [|Jo Parker "What is Poverty?"] [|Jacob Riis How the Other Half Lives]: The Problem of the Children
 * [|Becky Blanton The Year I was Homeless] TED Talk Blanton describes her experience as a homeless woman
 * Montgomery [|"The Island of Plenty"]
 * TED talk [|Escaping Poverty]
 * [|Han Rosling on Poverty] This link offers new insight on poverty through child survival and other statistics.
 * [|TED - Opinions on Africa and Poverty] - This is a link about how writing can effect opinions on poverty and Africa.
 * TED [|Power of the mobile phone to end poverty]
 * [|Kiva.org - A Microloaning Site]

[|Elie Weisel "The Perils of Indifference" Speech with audio] H[|illary Clinton "Remarks to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women" text and video] [|Sojourner Truth Ain't I a Woman Speech]
 * TED talk Sheryl Wu Dunn [|Our Century's Greatest Injustice]
 * [|The Girl Effect]
 * [|The Girl Effect Parody]

[|Peggy McIntosh "White Privilege"] [|Yvonne Anderson “Why I Left Harvard Law School . . . and Why I Came Back Again”] [|Richard Wright "The Library Card"] [|Frederick Douglass "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro"]
 * Complete text [|Click Here] (WARNING: Extremely Long)

[|Patrick Henry "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death"] EB White "Freedom" [|Thomas Paine The Crisis]
 * [|Eddie Izzard "Cake or Death"]

[|President Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech] [|Obama Afghanistan Surge Speech]
 * [|Article on President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech]

[|How to Detect Propaganda]
 * [|BadArguments: Multiple choice practice on logical fallacies]
 * [|Fallacy Quiz!!]

Supplemental Reading: > JOHN F. KENNEDY, Inaugural Address (1961) > ABRAHAM LINCOLN, The Gettysburg Address (1863) > MARK TWAIN, Two Ways of Seeing a River (1883) >
 * JUDY BRADY, I Want a Wife (1971)
 * Andrew Carnegie "[|The Gospel of Wealth]"
 * [|Using Quotations Effectively]
 * Logic and Fallacy
 * [|presentation] on logical fallacies.
 * [|Teaching Toulmin]
 * Anna Quindlen "[|The End of Swagger]" (reference to B.Clinton)
 * [|"Fighting For Our Lives" Deborah Tannen]
 * [|Southern Poverty Law Center]
 * [|How You Can Help]

Supplemental Viewing:
 * [|OWL at Purdue Persuasion]
 * [|OWL at Purdue Flash movie Organizing Your Argument]
 * [|President Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech]
 * [|Danny Glover reads "The Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro"]
 * [|Eddie Izzard "Cake or Death"]
 * [|Monty Python's The Argument Clinic]
 * Propaganda links
 * [|Katherine Fulton: You Are The Future Of Philanthropy -Describes the future of philanthropy.]

Split groups into different pairs. Choose one member to come up and make a 1-minute argument. Try to include at least 3 logical fallacies. Here are the arguments:
 * 1) [|Should Colleges consider SAT scores?]
 * 2) [|Is ADD overdiagnosed in America?]
 * 3) [|Is spanking a legitimate method of discipline?]
 * 4) [|Are homeschooled kids at a disadvantage?]