JOURNAL TOPIC:
Remember that fortune you won yesterday? Easy come, easy go. Due to a computer error, 24,999,999 other people also won. That means your winnings total $2 (actually, more like $1.35 after taxes). How do you react? What thoughts and feelings do you experience? How will your plans change?
AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Logical Fallacies/guided practice: We started by listening to the "Argument Clinic"; now we ARE the argument clinic
HW:
1. Watch the first fifteen minutes of the September 28 California gubernatorial debate online at http://debate.ucdavis.edu/webcast.html
2. Do the opening images and sounds set a tone or create a mood? Explain.
3. List the logical fallacies you observe; for each, write the fallacy's proper name, a brief description of the example as you see it, and the time (on the video counter) when the fallacy occurred so that we can find it easily to discuss.
4. Answer the following: How does the structure of the debate influence the quality of argumentation? Is ninety seconds enough to put together a truthful, valid syllogism? Is thirty seconds enough to analyze and rebut a syllogism? Would you give the candidates more time, less time, or the same? Would you change the structure of the debate? If so, how and why?
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