Class Meeting, March 31, 2022

1. Today your first argument is due. We will use the breakout rooms for private meetings to answer questions and review your essays. You can revise them, so don't worry. 

I sent you an email with a link to online writing support at Purdue OWL. I hope some of you took advantage of the resource and can tell us what your experience was. 

Here it is again: 

"Greetings Everyone:

I read your WA6 which all of you shared last week. All the essays were promising. Suggestion, when you finish writing, read the essay out loud to yourself to make sure it makes sense and it says what you want it to say. 

There were a few grammatical errors common in most essays: MLA and grammatically, sentence fragments. 

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/mechanics/sentence_fragments.html

If you use the free editing help at Purdue OWL, let us know in class, your experience." 

2. Homework due tonight was to revise or complete WA7 and read TMCCT pp. 7-23.  

Discussion March 31, 2021:

Critical Thinkers (9-10), Intellectual Standards (12), Character (13), Elements or Thought (14-15), Reasoning Checklist (16-17), The Figuring Mind (18); Universl Intellectual Standards (19-22).

Essential Intellectual Traits and Virtues (23-24-26, 27). 

Homework:

Read each section and find an example for egocentric, sociocentric thinking. 

Template for analyzing the Logic of an Article (29).
Criteria for Evaluating Reasoning (30). Peer to Peer. 

A Template for Problem Solving (31). 

The Problem with Egocentric Thinking (39).
Feelings that accompany ego-centric thinking (40).

The Problem of Sociocentric Thinking (41). 
Primary forms of Sociocentric Thought (42-43). 

Read:
1. Unethical Pursuit of Group Agendas (44).

2. Watch this video with Senator Booker with Hon.  Does it illustrate unethical group agenda? Why or why not?

Read: 
Envisoning Critical Societies (45-48). What is the authors point here in this small volumn? Please put a few of the aguments (3-5) into Standard Form.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson wiped away tears as Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., delivered a passionate speech on how she earned her spot to become the first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court. “You are worthy. You are a great American,” he told Jackson. In lieu of asking questions, Booker later told Jackson that “I know what it’s taken for you to sit in that seat.”

As the Senate Judiciary Committee continued its Supreme Court confirmation hearings March 23, Booker also railed against GOP senators pulling out specific cases from Jackson’s past and said it would not steal his joy.

The senator referenced abolitionist Harriet Tubman and Constance Baker Motley, the first Black woman to serve as a federal judge in 1966, as role models in his life and who paved the way for Jackson’s historic path.

“Today, you’re my star. You are my harbinger of hope,” Booker told Jackson. Wednesday was senators’ final day to question Jackson, who was nominated by President Joe Biden in February to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. If confirmed, she will be the first Black woman on the high court. On the final day of the hearings March 24, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hear from friends and colleagues of Jackson about her temperament and approach to the law.

III. Definition Essay (WLTC Chapter 5) Our next essay is a a definition essay. Think about a topic. Complete all the exercises and WA.