Students will be able to understand and connect fallacies with real life examples.
Announcements:
Make sure to be co-editing the wikispace project with your partner. Both of you should be making one website.
Bellringer:
Make sure to have better quality questions in the dialog journals. A quality question may begin with the word, "why" or "explain how." Many of you are simply writing one word answers to poor questions. You also need to put headings on each section to make it easier for me to grade. Use your reading calendar to label past page sections.
Students were given 5 minutes in class to now work on updating their dialog journals.
Activity:
On page 74, Montag mentions the fact that, "maybe books can get us half way out of the cave." THe cave he refers to is from Plato's allegory of the cave. We watched this video to explain the allegory,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=69F7GhASOdM
The world within the story is much like the people in the allegory that are chained. Montag represents the man released and experiences a different wolrd. He is trying to explain to Mildred how the world could bo, but she simply does not understand.
Are there any other examples from books or movies where you have seen this allegory represented?
Students mentioned how in Hunger Games, the people in the capitol that were blinded about what was happening in the real world, were like the people chained up in the cave.
Do you see the transformation happening within Montag?
Students were to read in partners 85-96.
Read/Write:
We went over the fallacies again as there was still some confusion between the different types of fallacies. We also corrected the worksheet for students to use for their propaganda project. This took us to the end of class.