Critical Thinking and Type Your Response
Persuasive Opinion Writing
The Lesson Activities will help you meet these educational goals:
21st Century Skills—You will use critical-thinking skills and effectively communicate your ideas.
Directions
Please save this document before you begin working on the assignment. Type your answers directly in the document. _________________________________________________________________________
Self-Checked Activities
Write a response for each of these activities. At the end of the lesson, click the link on the final screen to open the Student Answer Sheet. Use the sample answers to evaluate your own work.
1. Analyzing Editorials
a. Select a newspaper from this list of prominent newspapers, and read a variety of recent editorials. Then read some editorials from one or two additional newspapers from different parts of the country. What do you notice about the editorial topics and opinions selected from different newspapers throughout the country?
Type your response here:
The articles from local newspapers were very involved in the crime while newspapers from across the country, like New York, were very focused on the money and economy.
b. Analyze one of the editorials you read. Write a paragraph that answers these questions:
What was the subject of the editorial?
What was the author’s position on the topic?
How did the author support his or her opinion? (Give specific examples from the text, such as facts, quotes, and statistics.)
Type your response here:
The subject of the article was a little 13 year old girl on life support but shes brain dead. The author would just state the facts from the hospital but would never express the hospitals reasoning for not helping the family only the familys side.
c. Errors in logic, or fallacies, can make an argument appear weak and unconvincing. Read about good arguments versus fallacies, and complete the five exercises. Then write two syllogisms of your own that are based on fallacies, and
The Lesson Activities will help you meet these educational goals:
21st Century Skills—You will use critical-thinking skills and effectively communicate your ideas.
Directions
Please save this document before you begin working on the assignment. Type your answers directly in the document. _________________________________________________________________________
Self-Checked Activities
Write a response for each of these activities. At the end of the lesson, click the link on the final screen to open the Student Answer Sheet. Use the sample answers to evaluate your own work.
1. Analyzing Editorials
a. Select a newspaper from this list of prominent newspapers, and read a variety of recent editorials. Then read some editorials from one or two additional newspapers from different parts of the country. What do you notice about the editorial topics and opinions selected from different newspapers throughout the country?
Type your response here:
The articles from local newspapers were very involved in the crime while newspapers from across the country, like New York, were very focused on the money and economy.
b. Analyze one of the editorials you read. Write a paragraph that answers these questions:
What was the subject of the editorial?
What was the author’s position on the topic?
How did the author support his or her opinion? (Give specific examples from the text, such as facts, quotes, and statistics.)
Type your response here:
The subject of the article was a little 13 year old girl on life support but shes brain dead. The author would just state the facts from the hospital but would never express the hospitals reasoning for not helping the family only the familys side.
c. Errors in logic, or fallacies, can make an argument appear weak and unconvincing. Read about good arguments versus fallacies, and complete the five exercises. Then write two syllogisms of your own that are based on fallacies, and