Short Read:
"Safety and Structure: The Debate About Homeschooling" by Charles St. Martin
"Every Little Girl Wants to Be a Princess, Right?" by Mariah Jackson
"Time for a Change: Legalizing Marijuana in the State of Texas" by Ronald Cummings
Please note: you should watch the play on YouTube whether you choose to write a creative assignment about it or not.
Paper:
Your topic is due on Tuesday in class!
Write a paragraph telling me what article or essay you intend to argue against, and what your position will be. Give me as much detail as you have about your plan of attack -- Rogerian, Toulmin, Aristotelian? Fill me in on the cunning rhetorical strategies you intend to use to win the argument against this article you've chosen. You don't have to give the article in full, but do link to it. If you can't link to it, describe it well including the publication in which it appears.
Creative Assignments:
Draw Oedipus' family tree and, below each person's name, do a little drawing to illustrate how they were killed/mutilated/plunged into the depths of despair. This tree should include Laius, Oedipus, Jocasta, Creon, Antigone, Ismene, Polynices, Eteocles, Haemon, and Eurydice. If you feel extra confident you can even include other figures not dealt with in the plays, like Oedipus' grandfather Labdacus.
OR
Watch the Oedipus Rex film version by the BBC, 1957. Please write a short response addressing at least three aspects which really struck you about the performance. Hopefully the visual and auditory presentation will accentuate certain elements of the play which couldn’t be expressed with a simple reading of the text. After all, this is theatre!
Writing Assignments:
The three essays you've been assigned as short reads are examples of the Toulmin, Rogerian, and Aristotelian argument structures. Read them carefully and think about the steps in creating arguments that we discussed. Create an outline for each one, labeling your outline with the vocabulary we discussed, and explaining the purpose of each paragraph in all three essays.
OR
Is Oedipus’ hamartia, or “tragic flaw,” his incestuous marriage and parricide? If not, what is his hamartia, if he has one? Aristotle said a tragic hero like Oedipus is one “not eminently good and just, yet whose misfortune is brought about not by vice or depravity, but by some error or frailty.” Does this hold true for Oedipus? Explain why or why not.
AP Lang:
Logical fallacies are bad rhetoric! You have had 5 logical fallacies assigned to you. Your job is to look up what the logical fallacy is, and give an example of it. Make sure you do your part so we can learn to recognize all the logical fallacies on this heinous list. You don't have to be super serious about your logical fallacy examples as long as the example teaches us what the fallacy is.
Ad Hominem
Appeal To False Authority
Appeal To Emotion
Appeal to Fear
Appeal To Force
Benny:
Appeal To Majority
Appeal To Novelty
Appeal To Numbers
Appeal To Tradition
Complex Question
Nicholas:
Argumentum Ad Nauseam
Begging The Question
Burden Of Proof
False Dilemma
False Premise
Martina:
Gambler's Fallacy
Guilt By Association
Non Sequitur
Post Hoc/False Cause
Red Herring
Relativism
Slippery Slope
Special Pleading
Appeal to Flattery
Appeal to Pity
Rachael:
Bandwagon Appeal
Biased Sample (Texas Sharpshooter)
Appeal to Ignorance
Division
Equivocation
Sarah:
False Analogy
Hypostatization (personification)
Denying the Antecedent
Affirming the Consequent
Straw Man Argument
Nathan:
Tu Quoque
Ambiguity
Anecdotal
Loaded Question
Genetic
Quiz:
1. How does Jocasta kill herself?
2. What does Oedipus do to himself?
3. Why does he do that specifically? Why is it ironic?
4. What is Oedipus' punishment?
5. Why does Oedipus have a limp?
6. Who found Oedipus in the wilds?
7. What is Oedipus' reaction when the chorus tells him it were better he had died?
8. What good news does the messenger bring from Corinth?
9. Why does the messenger's news at first seem to be such good news for Oedipus?
10. What does Jocasta think of the oracle's prophecy?
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