Procedural Text

2018

Monday

BELLwork

• Copy homework
• Target reading

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HOMEwork

• Read and log minutes
• Respond to two questions

this week.

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Procedural Text

Procedural Text

In the writing section, title your next blank page “Procedural Texts”

Draw what I say. Listen carefully. Be confident. Don’t look at a neighbor’s drawing!

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Procedural Text

In your notebook, under your drawing, respond the the following questions:

First Try:

How did that work out?

What was needed/missing?

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Procedural Text

Now, let’s try it again!

Under your two responses, let’s try it again.

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Procedural Text...now try this!

Add in your notebook:

Second Try:

How did it go?

Work out better this time? Why?

Procedural Texts

Procedural Text Elements

Tuesday

BELLwork

• Copy homework
• Target reading
• Look on the

boards for your missing work

HOMEwork

• Procedural text quiz tomorrow!
• Read and log minutes
• Respond to two questions

this week.

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Don’t forget to give a shout-out to someone considerate this week! (bulletin board next to the window)

Procedural Text: How is this a “how to”

Procedural Text - Notes

Procedural Text - Notes

Procedural Text - Notes

Procedural Text Practice

“Using Your Ice-Cream Maker”

Support answers with text

evidence = quote

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Wednesday

BELLwork

• Copy homework

and quote

• Target reading
• Look on the

boards for your missing work

HOMEwork

• Read and log minutes
• Respond to two questions

this week.

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Don’t forget to give a shout-out to someone considerate this week! (bulletin board next to the window)

Procedural Text open-notes quiz

Use your notes to help you on your quiz. :-)

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Now it’s your turn! Create your how-to.

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LOGIC AND PERSUASION

PERSUASION

• Persuasion is a type of speech or writing, usually nonfiction, that tries to convince audience members to think or act in a certain way.
• Examples:
• You can try to persuade your parents to buy you a video game.
• You can try to persuade your teacher to give you extra credit.
• You can try to persuade your friend to let you borrow a shirt.

LOGIC

• Logic is a method used to help create clear arguments. The strongest arguments are based on reasoning, or logical thinking.
• Logic gives reasons why something should happen.
• Example:
• Goal: I want to eat junk food for breakfast.
• Reason 1: It will make me happy.
• Reason 2: Junk food tastes good.
• Reason 3: I will have lots of energy with all of that sugar.

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LOGICAL FALLACIES

(Arguments that are FALSE and not true.)

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• An invalid, or not logical, argument that often includes logical fallacies, or errors in reasoning.

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• There are 5 types of logical fallacies that we will discuss:

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• Rhetorical Fallacies Stereotyping
• Categorical Claims
• Ad Hominem
• Exaggeration/Hyperbole

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RHETORICAL FALLACIES

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• These are misleading and often false statements that appeal to emotion (pathos),ethics ( logic or logos),authority (credibility ethos).
• They often create errors in reasoning as well. They are meant to distract the audience from the real issue or are offered instead of factual support.

RHETORICAL FALLACIES EXAMPLES:

• “The thousands of baby seals killed in the Exxon Valdez oil spill have shown us that oil is not a reliable energy source.” (appeals to emotion)
• “Sara’s friend Amy robbed a bank; therefore, Sara is a criminal.” (guilty by association, because of who they are friends with)
• “My high school teacher said it, so it must be true.” (question of authority)

AD HOMINEM

• Ad Hominem is an attack used in an argument that focuses on the opponent’s personality, character, or other qualities instead of on the opponent’s supporting evidence.
• Example:
• “Teachers make students complete homework because they are mean.”
• “Parents give their children curfews because they don’t truly care about their child’s wants.”

EXAGGERATION/

HYPERBOLE

• This is overstating something- in other words, “stretching the truth.”
• Extreme exaggeration is hyperbole.
• Examples:
• The President of Texas A&M said that, “football is the greatest college sport ever played.”
• The students think that, “The field trip will be the most exciting activity in the whole world

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STEREOTYPING

• This is making an unfair, too-broad statement about a person or a group of people.
• Example:
• “Teenagers are lazy.”
• “All men like to play football.”
• “All teenagers dislike reading.”

CATEGORICAL CLAIMS

• Categorical claims are statements about all the members of a group or all of a certain type of thing.
• These claims can be misleading if they are untrue or too broad.
• Example:
• “Because seventh graders in 5^th period work hard, all seventh graders are hard workers.”
• “Because Mrs. Lapaglia did not pay me well for babysitting, all babysitting jobs don’t pay well.”
• “Because chocolate mousse and ice cream are unhealthy, all desserts are unhealthy.”
• “Because some dogs bite people, all dogs bite people.”

SO WHAT’S THE POINT OF THIS LESSON? WHY? WHY? WHY?

You NEED to know that using Logical Fallacies in an argument makes your argument invalid and baseless.

We need to be able to recognize them in other people’s arguments so we don’t believe false arguments. We need to avoid using them so that all of our arguments are sound and logical.

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Tuesday

Homework

Bellwork Stations

YOU need your book, notebook, and a pencil today.

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Read and log minutes, Respond to 2 questions

Remember that your book needs to be completed by Friday.

End of the six weeks!

• Complete the Logic and Persuasion Practice on your own.
• This is due tomorrow!