Rhetoric 1 ages 14+ Live Class
About Course
What Will You Learn?
- Research - how to research and properly list your sources
- How to write great essays
- How to organize thoughts properly for a research paper or essay
- How to ask questions that produce great answers
- Reasoning (logic)- recognizing fallacies and practicing formal logic
Course Content
Semester 1 Week 1 Links to use for this weeks assignments
The Apology
The Argument Clinic
04:32Chemistry with Crash Course
10:11Acids and Bases
11:17Call of the Wild Discussion Questions
Semester 1 Week 2 Links to use for this weeks assignments
Achilles and the Tortoise
Occam’s Razor
Euthyphro
Semester 1 Week 3 Links to use for this weeks assignments
John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon Debate
58:35Lab 1- Microscope
07:55
Semester 1 Week 4 Links used to complete this weeks assignments
The Apology by Plato
Lab: An Amoeba
07:19Lab: Cheek Cells
03:53Lab: Elodea
01:03Lab: Elodea Wet Mount
02:01The Giver Discussion Questions
Semester 1 Week 5 Links used to complete this weeks assignments
Zeno’s Paradoxes
Zeno’s Paradoxes Pt.2
Osmosis in Elodea
09:10Debate between Senator McCain and Senator Obama
01:39:26
Semester 1 Week 6 Links used to complete this weeks assignments
Sherlock Holmes: “A Case of Identity”
Dennet & D’Souza Debate
10:22Wikipedia Gun Control Entry
Semester 1 Week 7 Links used to complete this weeks assignments
GunCite
Just Facts: A Resource for Independent Thinkers
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
Dennet & D’Souza Debate Pt.2
09:33Arguments about Gun Control
Semester 1 Week 8 Links to use for this weeks assignments
Open to Debate Website
“Resolved: America should be the world’s policeman”
“Our View of the Second Amendment: Preserve Limits on Guns”
Semester 1 Week 9 Links to use for this weeks assignments
To Kill a Mockingbird Discussion Questions
Michael Mandelbaum; Resolved: America should be the world’s policeman
06:12Matthew Parris; Resolved: America should be the world’s policeman
08:05Frequency Analysis
Semester 1 Week 10 Links to use for this weeks assignments
Douglas Murray; Resolved: America should be the world’s policeman
07:07Ian Bremmer; Resolved: America should be the world’s policeman
07:35The Adventure of the Dancing Man
Calvin and Hobes Comic Strip
Semester 1 Week 11 Links used to complete this weeks assignments
Q&A Session after debate for “Resolved: America should be the world’s policeman”
00:00Article exploring arguments regarding crime and guns
Euthypro
Semester 1 Week 12 Links used to complete this weeks assignments
Closing Arguments for the debate “Resolved: America should be the world’s policeman”
Quotes from the Framers and their Contemporaries
Quotes from the Constitutional Commentators
The myth of Nazi gun control
Article on the racist roots of gun control
Semester 1 Week 13 Links used to complete this weeks assignments
“Up from Slavery” Discussion Questions
Article on a Bigfoot sighting and interview
Children’s Exposure to Violence: A Comprehensive National Survey
Semester 1 Week 14 Links used to complete this weeks assignments
Universal Health Care Debate Pt.1
05:55
Semester 1 Week 15 Links used to complete this weeks assignments
Universal Health Care Debate Pt.2
07:47Math Definitions
Another website for Math Definitions
Semester 1 Week 16 Links used to complete this weeks assignments
Robert F. Kennedy addressing MLK JR’s death
Universal Health Care Debate Pt.3
07:26
Semester 2 Week 17 Links used for this week's assignments
Q&A Session Intelligence Squared Pt.1
09:11Obama’s Acceptance Speech 2008
17:17LTW Introduction
07:25LTW Comparison Essay One: Invention
06:50How Viruses Work
02:39Archaea
02:06Bacteria (updated)
07:31
Semester 2 Week 18 Links used for this week's assignments
Q&A Session Intelligence Squared Pt.2
09:26
Semester 2 Week 19 Links used for this week's assignments
Protists Video
05:07How Microscopic Hunters get their Lunch video
11:05Pond Water video
02:08Closing arguments for Intelligence Squared Debate on Universal Healthcare
08:11
Semester 2 Week 20 Links used to complete this weeks assignments.
Fungus Cannon in Slow Motion video
05:48Dance of the Spores video
02:01(Optional)The Life of the Forest film
37:11Crito by Plato
Semester 2 Week 21 Links used to complete this weeks assignments.
Illegal Immigration Debate Pt.1
04:48Intro to Animals Video
12:21
Semester 2 Week 22 Links used to complete this week's assignments.
Intelligence Squared Debate Illegal Immigration Pt.2
08:10Jonathan Bird’s Blue World: Sponges
09:44
Semester 2 Week 23 Links used to complete this week's assignments
Hydra Under a Microscope
04:53Jellyfish Dissection
05:36Sea Anemone Dissection
05:41Blue World: Cnidarians
06:43Illegal Immigration Debate Pt.3
08:03Illegal Immigration Pt.3
08:11
Semester 2 Week 24 Links used to complete this week's assignments
About Emily Dickinson
Dickinson Electronic Archives
Q&A Session for Illegal Immigration Debate
09:25Worm Dissection
07:40
Semester 2 Week 25 Links used to complete this week's assignments
Q&A Pt.2 for Illegal Immigration Debate
09:44Shakespeare Excerpt
Leopard Slug
02:10Colossal Squid
01:26Guy helping an octopus
03:12Hooded Cuttlefish Experiment
09:52Bivalves
03:25
Semester 2 Week 26 Links used to complete this week's assignments.
Debate Resources
Q&A Session Pt.3: Illegal Immigration
07:48Closing Arguments for Illegal Immigration Debate
04:58Arthropods
06:42Crayfish Dissection
00:00
Semester 2 Week 27 Links used to complete this weeks assignments
Echinoderms
08:42Sea Star Dissection
06:22Tobias Parks’ YouTube Channel
Video 1.1: What is LD?
04:40Video 1.2: Sample LD Round
41:17
Semester 2 Week 28 Links used to complete this weeks assignments
Chordata- Lamprey
06:44Dogfish Dissection
04:29
Semester 2 Week 29 Links used to complete this weeks assignments
Reptiles vs. Amphibians
07:53Frog Dissection
13:36Sample LD Round
41:17
Semester 2 Week 30 Links used to complete this weeks assignments
Moss Spores being released
00:24Antheridia Slides
00:43Moss slides
01:00Moss is Cool! Video
04:43
Semester 2 Week 31 Links used to complete this weeks assignments
Pinecones and How They Work
04:21External View of a Pinecone
02:13Pinecone under a microscope
00:22Lilly Microscopy
04:27Edgar Allen Poe- The Golden Bug
Edgar Allen Poe- The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Semester 2 Week 32 Links used to complete this weeks assignments
Riot and the Dance: Ecology