Georgia 10.T.T.3.b

ELA10th GradeArgumentative Techniques

The Standard

Analyze the use of rhetorical appeals; identify fallacies in a text. (I)

Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Texts (T) · Techniques

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students examine how writers use credibility, emotion, and logic to persuade an audience. They identify faulty reasoning and explain how each choice affects an argument's strength.
What Mastery Looks Like: Students correctly identify ethos, pathos, and logos using specific words or details as evidence. They name common fallacies and explain how faulty reasoning weakens or manipulates an argument.
Common Misconceptions: Students may label any emotion as pathos or treat statistics as automatically logical. They may name a fallacy without explaining the faulty reasoning or its effect.
How to Assess It: Give students a short advertisement containing one rhetorical appeal and one fallacy. Ask them to identify both, quote evidence, and explain each effect in two sentences.

Lesson moves

Have groups sort printed claim cards into ethos, pathos, logos, and fallacy categories, then defend two placements with evidence.
Ask students to write which appeal is strongest in a selected speech excerpt and explain why another appeal is less effective.
Play Fallacy Detective by showing one argument at a time and awarding points for naming and correcting the reasoning error.
Compare two product advertisements and mark how each uses credibility, emotion, evidence, or faulty reasoning to influence buyers.

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