---
title: "09.21.07"
date: 2007-09-21
url: https://learningischange.com/2007/09/21/092107/
author: Ben Wilkoff
categories: ["Lesson Plans", "Uncategorized"]
tags: []
---

# 09.21.07

Core 1:

- Write-on: How can the specific words that we use affect how persuasive we are in our writing or speaking?
- Continue working on [“Tom Sawyer Whitewashing the Fence.”](http://www.pbs.org/marktwain/learnmore/writings_tom.html)  Does Tom make fallacious arguments or real ones?
- How does he convince others to do his work for him?

- Extensions:  Plan out how you plan to convince your parents/brother/sister to do something that you don’t want to do without the use of fallacious arguments. Write out how you have accomplished your goal in your blog.

Core 2:

- Write-on: Create three short sentences about something sitting on your desk or in your pockets.
- Read The Pen Commandments and take a look at the Pacemaker Syndrome, Conjunctionitis, and the Case Studies.
- Extensions:  For next Friday, brainstorm what your case study would be about.

Core 3:

- Finish presenting the 1940’s Smart Notebook Files.
- Listen to and watch the speeches by FDR and fill out the [Speech Analysis Form](http://discovery0607.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/speechform.JPG).  [Address at Hyde Park, New York.](http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/mediaplay.php?id=16139&admin=32)
- [Statement on Signing the Social Security Act.](http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/mediaplay.php?id=14916&admin=32)

- Compare and contrast [FDR’s speech after the Pearl Harbor attacks](http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/mediaplay.php?id=16053&admin=32) with [George W. Bush’s Speech after the 9/11 attacks](http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=58057&st=&st1=).
- Discuss the speeches in terms of change, tradition, and sacrificing individual needs for the needs of many.
- Extensions:  Finish the Speech Analysis Form.

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Core 4:

- Write-on: What kind of arguments/persuasion are false? (Sometimes persuasive but always fallacious, deceitful, or just plain wrong)
- Finish presenting the Metaphorical Persuasion pieces.  [Chris and Katy](http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=dcjhvwhv_3dk8qc3&fs=true)
- [Erica and Hanna](http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=d3v87fw_3fctpvz&fs=true)
- [Lex and Tommy](http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=dhsq8bhw_2457v22&fs=true)
- [Becki and McKenna](http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=d2bqm3b_27tt9x&fs=true)
- [Manas](http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=dc23tj5q_2tmg3m&fs=true)
- [Rachel and Allie](http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=d8wf5mf_3hnqvhx&fs=true)
- [Joe, Jeremy, and Alex](http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=dg2tcjxp_2ck4m89&fs=true)

- Which are the most recognizable/often used of the [Fallacious Arguments.](http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html)
- Find an example of one of the above Fallacious Arguments in [modern political discourse.](http://www.thenonsequitur.com/)
- Extensions:  Think of the one thing that you would like to persuade your parents to do for you (or give to you).