Assignments and Action Steps

Craft your lesson plan for this session. Consider the discussion questions as you prepare and also the following suggested preparatory assignment:

(1) Consider an issue you are passionate about. It can be political, theological, philosophical, domestic, etc. Two criteria:

(a) you must be truly passionate about it; and
(b) you must be able to identify specific facts on which to base your argument.

Prepare a passionate yet invalid argument resting entirely on persuasion, emotional appeal, and conviction. Then prepare a valid, reasoned, equally persuasive argument. Prepare some discussion questions, asking your students to attempt to poke holes in each. You can encourage them to apply the reasoning presented in both of your arguments to contrary positions and see which of your 2 arguments resists their attempts to dismantle it.