Class Outline

Outline - MtSAC 1C # 097357 Critical Thinking 8-12:15 Sunday

3/4 - Procedures, parameters, software, signups.
READ - About Toulmin: http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/reading/toulmin/
Langston -Hughes' "Harlem": http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=640
- Start "On Civil Government" Henry David Thoreau.(for week 3)

3/11 - Toulmin analyses. Logical fallacy.
Read about fallacies - http://www.logicalfallacies.info/. Find fallacies for discussion.

3/18 - Bring Fallacies. (View WMD montage. Discuss Thoreau.)
READ - About media - http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/spiroagnewtvnewscoverage.htm
- Chomsky's Propaganda Model http://www.chomsky.info/onchomsky/2002----.htm
- Noam Chomsky: "Resort to Fear” http://www.chomsky.info/articles/20050716.pdf

3/25 Bring W3 Sites/ addresses. Start Essay 1.

4/1 - Essay 1 due, on media. View Shakespeare. Discussion.

4/8 EASTER WEEKEND

4/15 - Find Critical readings. Discussion. Choose debate topics, teams.

4/22 - Essay 2 Due. Fallacies. Conferences, debate preparations.

4/29 Conferences, debate preparations. Fallacies

5/6 Conferences, debate preparations. Debate. Fallacies.

5/13 Debates. Fallacies. Research papers.

5/20 Debate preparations

5/27 Debate preparations

6/3 Debate preparations. Debates. Fallacy Assignments. LAST BLOG ENTRIES.

6/10 Debates. / presentations. Essay 4.

6/17 Finals.