WRITE!

Would your argument benefit from a concessive?

At some point today or tonight, send me an email with feedback about yesterday's "fishbowl" seminar.
1.  What did you like about it?  2.  Recommendations

Seminar: Iraq War

Due Wednesday:  Seminar Writing

Rubric

Seminar Prep

Starter 19:  What position are you developing about the Iraq War?

Iraq War Seminar and Writing Task

Homework:  Seminar prewrite (outline or draft of writing task)

Why We Fight

Shock and Awe!:  The initial bombing of Baghdad

Assign Interventions:  If you do not know what intervention you are studying, see me.

Key Terms: "military industrial complex"; collateral damage; "economic colonialism"

Why We Fight (2005)

1.     How does this film answer Essential Question #1?  (Why do we fight?)

2.      “Annotate” for Rhetoric:  fallacies, four A’s, logos, pathos, ethos

3.     Is the argument presented in this film convincing?  Why or why not? 

4.     What counterpoints can be made against the film’s rhetoric?

Homework:  Finish film questions.
Optional:  Do additional research on Iraq War.  Begin researching your intervention.

Leading to War

Reading Quiz:
1. Explain the ideological bias of the article and (Honors) The Project for the New American Century.
2. Explain the foreign policy advocated for in the reading(s)

Discuss quiz answers and:
3.  What are the advantages of this viewpoint?
4.  What good points are made?


The Bush Doctrine


Media Excerpts from the Bush administration (Leading to War)
1.  Analyze carefully the rhetoric of Bush and his defense staff.  Jot down observations about the rhetoric:  note effective use of the 4A’s, logical argument, Aristotelian appeals, fallacies.
2. How is their rhetoric convincing?
3. What points can be made against their rhetoric?




Homework:  
1.  5 Fallacies
2.  Finish Q's 2&3
3.  Honors:  adapted Zinn, Chapter 25

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The Rhetoric of Aftermath

Starter 19:  Choose either bin Laden's letter or Howard Zinn's chapter.  React to either's rhetoric.


Fallacies


President Bush's Address to a Joint Session of Congress:  September 20, 2001
1.  What do you notice about Bush's rhetoric?  Jot down your observations as you watch his speech.
2.  How does this rhetoric affect you personally?


Homework:
1.  Read "Commit For the Long Run" by Robert Kagan and Ronald D. Asmus
2.  Find 5 examples of logical fallacies in any sources of rhetoric including the sources we are looking at in class. (ads are a good place to find certain types).  Write down the example and the source.  Due Thursday
3.  Honors (optional for everyone):  Check out Project For the New American Century.  Discover the ideological bias of the organization by exploring their website.  How is their rhetoric?

The Pathos of 9-11

Starter 17:  In your own words, what is the main claim of Dr. Grossman's article?  (Hint:  It occurs close to the end of the reading...)

Project:  The Rhetoric of 20th Century US Military Interventions

Video:  HBO 9-11 Memorium

Homework:  Howard Zinn, Chapter 25

Look at Osama bin Laden's open letter to America