Essay Units

Unit 1     Unit 2     Unit 3     Unit 4

Supplemental Reading Links and Handouts

UNIT ONE: HITLER AND LOGICAL FALLACIES

• "Argument" - University of North Carolina Handout

• Unit One Essay Handout: Argument Analysis  REVISED VERSION

• Sample: Argument Analysis Essay on Hitler

• Practice Paragraph Grading Rubric

• Logical Fallacies Handlist (L. Kip Wheeler)

• Logical Fallacies by Type

• Logical Fallacies Study Guide

• "Propaganda: How Not to Be Bamboozled" (Donna Woolfolk Cross) - Required Reading

• Hitler: "On Nation and Race" from Mein Kampf

• Richard Nixon: "Checker's Speech"

• Video: Nixon's "Checker's Speech"

Unit Two: Plato's "Allegory of the Cave"

• Unit 2 Essay Assignment Handout

• Plato: "Allegory of the Cave" from The Republic

• Plato Lecture Notes and Online Links

• Plato: Summary Worksheet

• Plato: Summary

• Plato: Notes by Gorman

• Wikipedia entry for "Allegory of the Cave"

• Wikipedia entry for "The Socratic Method"

• The World of Being and the World of Becoming

• Spark Notes: Plato

Unit Three: John Stuart Mill and liberty

• Unit 3 Essay Assignment Handout

• Links about "On Liberty"

  • "On Liberty" from Bartleby.com

  • "On Liberty" Drastically Abridged (Ian Johnston)

  • Lecture Notes on Mill's "On Liberty" (Ian Johnston)

  • Wikipedia entry for John Stuart Mill

  • Wikipedia entry for "On Liberty"

  • Spark Notes: "On Liberty" (formatted *.doc version)

  • Grade Saver: "On Liberty" Summary & Analysis

• James Bovard, "Free Speech Zones"

• Linda Monk's Analysis of the Bill of Rights

• Melvin Uroksky, Rights of the People: Individual Freedom & the Bill of Rights

• Sample Introduction and Historical Background (McBride)

Unit FOUR: FREE CHOICE TOPIC

• Unit 4 Essay Assignment Handout (includes problem solving steps 1-4)

• Paper Proposal

• Annotated Bibliography

• Writing an Argumentative Essay (Word File)

• Argument Essay Topics (suggestions)