Knowledge/Skill Building

🧭 Appeals and Fallacies Sort

Critical Thinking & Problem Solving Content Expertise Academic Mindset CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.3 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.9-10.6 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.8 Submission Required

Using color-coded quote strips from Animal Farm opening chapters, speeches, posters, and short nonfiction excerpts, students sort examples by rhetorical appeal, tone, and likely logical fallacy. In pairs, they justify each sort on a table chart and then test whether each example feels persuasive, manipulative, or mixed. The teacher closes with a mini-lesson on how weak reasoning can still sound convincing.

Plan day
Day 3
Duration
90 min
Grouping
Pair
Steps