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RHETORICAL FALLACIES LECTURE GUIDED NOTES

I. A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO OUR TOPIC

1. How do you feel when you hear the following statements? Answer this
question with at least 3-4 sentences in the first space provided.
<CRITICAL THINKING HINT> : How unreasonable or illogical do these statements
sound to you? Upon hearing them, how would you defend yourself/fight back/prove
your perspective if it differs?
- Princess Kate wears Alexander McQueen. Are you trying to
say you have better fashion sense than a royal princess?
- Everyone is wearing those platform Converse...I should too.
- There are starving children in Africa. Don't complain about
the food or leave a single crumb left either.
 2. Try It Yourself: Rhetorical Fallacy Mad Libs!
- Fill in the blanks based on the descriptions provided, just like Mad Libs!
Remember, you must follow the descriptor hints for your sentences to make
sense. Once finished, share your creations in groups of three, and pick your
favorite! Groups will share with the class once everyone’s done.

1. ( NOUN 1 ) is ( ACTION VERB 1 ). I thought I should ( ACTION

VERB 1 ) too, since everyone is saying ( APPROPRIATE PRONOUN
TO NOUN 1 ) was successful.

2. My ( NOUN 1 ) told me ( A CERTAIN PIECE OF INFORMATION ). Are

you saying you’re smarter than ( NOUN 1 ), and that I shouldn’t
believe ( PRONOUN TO NOUN 1 )?

II. LET’S DIG IN: WHAT IS A RHETORICAL FALLACY?

- DEFINITION

- DETAILS
III. RHETORICAL FALLACY CHART (GRAPHIC ORGANIZER)

FALLACY NAME DEFINITION EXAMPLES YOUR OWN

EXAMPLE

CIRCULAR
REASONING

HASTY
GENERAL-
IZATION

SLIPPERY
SLOPE

STRAW MAN

AD HOMINEM

FALSE
DICHOTOMY

APPEAL TO
EMOTION

EQUIVOCATION

BANDWAGON

FALSE
ANALOGY
IV. VIDEO NOTES: TOP TEN LOGICAL FALLACIES
- Feel free to take notes in your Guided Notes, whatever you put will help you
study in the future!
V. TIME TO APPLY!
- Take this time to go back to your notes and create an example for each of the
rhetorical fallacies we had just gone over.
- In your graphic organizer, write your own example in each of the columns.
- Then, go to the last page of your Guided Notes and FIX each of the fallacies so
that they are sound arguments.

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