Georgia 11.T.T.3.b

ELA11th GradeArgumentative Techniques

The Standard

Explain and analyze the impact of logical fallacies in a variety of texts. (I)

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

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students locate faulty reasoning in speeches, articles, advertisements, and other arguments. They explain how each fallacy changes the argument’s strength, the writer’s credibility, or the audience’s reaction.
What Mastery Looks Like: Students accurately identify fallacies such as false dilemma, straw man, ad hominem, and hasty generalization. They cite specific wording and explain how the faulty reasoning weakens, distracts, or persuades.
Common Misconceptions: Students may label any weak evidence as a fallacy or confuse emotional appeals with faulty reasoning. They may name a fallacy correctly but fail to explain how it affects credibility, logic, or audience response.
How to Assess It: Exit ticket: Read, “Either support school uniforms or accept constant classroom chaos.” Name the fallacy and explain how it shapes the audience’s view of the choices.

Lesson moves

Give pairs printed argument cards to sort by fallacy, then have them underline the wording that creates each reasoning error.
Ask students to explain whether a fallacy can still persuade an audience, using one example from a speech, article, or advertisement.
Play Fallacy Fix, where teams rewrite flawed claims into sound arguments without changing the original position.
Have students collect one fallacy from an advertisement, campaign message, or social media post and explain its likely effect on viewers.

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