12th grade ELA

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Literary

The Lord of the Flies Julius Caesar The Help The Importance of Being Earnest

Informational

The Power of Words ● “Why I Believe in Black and White” by Roger Ebert ● Patton’s speech to the 3rd Army ● Letter from Gandhi to Hitler (Example of weak, ineffective speech) ● Jenny Horne: How one speech altered the course of the Confederate Flag ● 2015 AP Language and Composition Synthesis Prompt: The Place for Polite Speech

Text Possibilities: What the nugget? That’s so illogical! (A Text Set about illogical arguments / logical fallacies) ● Short Story: “Love is a Fallacy” by Max Schulman ● Article : “Reasons Why Rick Dyer is Telling the Truth about Bigfoot” ● Comments Sections : Examine the comments sections of these articles for logical fallacies ○ Utah Drivers Get a Bad Rap - KSL ○ Essential Oil Company Gets Slapped by FDA - KSL ● Visual Texts For Teaching Logical Fallacies Infomercials ○ Hawaii Chair

○ Slap Chop ○ Sham Wow ● Advertisements (for example: Japanese Ice cream commercial) ● Documentaries with illogical arguments ○ Who Killed the Electric Car? ○ Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price ○ Supersize Me ○ Ancient Aliens Series from The History Channel Notes: