Logical, emotional, ethical fallcies
Authored by Misty Mix
English
9th Grade
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1.
OPEN ENDED QUESTION
3 mins • Ungraded
Identify the words that create a fallacy (maybe more than one group of words). Identify which fallacy(ies) is created.
Joe and Peach are arguing over Beck.
Joe: "I know what you are doing."
Peach: "W...w...what are you talking about? You don't know anything! You're a moron!"
Joe: "I saw the pictures!"
Peach pauses, looking down as she thinks. "What pictures? How did you even see those... you stole my lap top, didn't you?"
Joe: "Don't change the subject! First, you friended her. Then you spent time with her. You are obsessed now. You won't be happy until you are her!"
Peach: "Shut up you @$$hole!"
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CCSS.RL.8.1
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2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which fallacy does this excerpt from Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird illustrate?
Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men’s hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.
Slippery Slope
Ad Hominem
Bandwagon
None of the above
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CCSS.RI.8.8
CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.RL.9-10.1
CCSS.RI.7.1
3.
OPEN ENDED QUESTION
3 mins • Ungraded
Explain how this excerpt illustrates a fallacy. Use specific words to support your answer.
Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men’s hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.
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CCSS.RL.8.1
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CCSS.RI.7.8
4.
OPEN ENDED QUESTION
3 mins • Ungraded
Which fallacy does the passage demonstrate? What part of the quote proves it?
“You stick a bunch of drunken murderers together, ain't long before some turn to thieving, then to lying, then to bad language, and pretty soon to sobriety, raising families and making an honest living.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Red Country
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5.
OPEN ENDED QUESTION
15 mins • Ungraded
Create your own example of a situation or conversation that illustrates one of the fallacies. Must be at least five sentences.
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6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which fallacy is illustrated in this tweet?
Wacky @NYTimesDowd, who hardly knows me, makes up things that I never said for her boring interviews and column. A neurotic dope!
Bandwagon
Ad Hominem
Slippery Slope
None of the above
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CCSS.RI.8.8
CCSS.RI. 9-10.8
CCSS.RI.7.8
CCSS.RI.8.5
CCSS.RI.9-10.5
7.
FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Fill in the blank. ____________ leads to a ridiculous conclusion.
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CCSS.RI.8.8
CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.RL.9-10.1
CCSS.RL.7.1
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