Recognition  Happy Birthday!  Audrey Galloway (3)  Niko Garcia (4)

AP Language and Composition Wednesday, 9 September 2015  Time will pass; will you? 56 school days remain in the fall semester.  Today’s Class:  Transcendental ideas in our contemporary society  “Transcendentalism is more an outlook or frame of mind than an actual philosophy”

Housekeeping and Recognition  Paz de Christo is this Friday—one volunteer from each period—this Friday  The daily Power Points are now available on the class website, just beneath the course calendar.  Making up work? Need to see me? I am available today and Friday after school.  Please keep your grades monitored in IC, and alert me immediately to any discrepancies.  The Daily Course Calendar was last updated on September 4  Ongoing Reading Logs—what are you reading, and where are you finding it?

Coming Due—do not squander time— that’s the stuff life’s made of!  Tomorrow:  Revised position statement—it’s time to COMMIT  Monday:  Vocab Log #3  Tuesday:  From Thoreau’s Walden—read, annotate, and be prepared for a Socratic Discussion  Thursday:  Annotated Bibs # 3 and 4

Today’s Class  Perfecting the bibliographies:  Formatting—space saving?  Works Cited  Italicizing and Quotes  Analysis  Do you see a “HOW”?—here’s what that means  Turnitin  No credit until you return the assignment with a receipt  -10% penalty  Late Work is UNEXCUSABLE for this assignment

Philosophy Essay Prompt (drafts due 9/22):  Pick one idea from anything we have read in this unit, and write an essay which explains what that idea means to you. You must directly quote at least one piece of writing.  Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave”  Roy Baumeister’s “Do You Really Have Free Will?”  Bryant’s “Thanatopsis”  Ralph Waldo Emerson  “Self-Reliance,” or related essays  “Nature”  Henry David Thoreau—from Walden

Reading Essays—”Transcendental” ideas… made real  Read your assigned essay, and answer these questions. Be prepared to summarize, and share your thoughts with the class:  1. “Remember the Six Billion” (“Thanatopsis”)  Identify Shermer’s use(s) of sarcasm, and explain WHY he chooses to use it.  2. “Are We Raising a Generation of Helpless Kids?” (“Self- Reliance”)  Pick ONE of the four claims under “Where did we go wrong?” with which your either agree or disagree. Explain, citing evidence.  3. “’Selfie’-reliance: The word of the year is the story of our individualism” (“Self-Reliance”)  Psychologist Sarah J. Gervais writes in Psychology Today that “such portraiture [selfies] on social media is as good for self- empowerment as it is for self-objectificaiton.” Agree or disagree? Why?

Assign: readings from Thoreau’s Walden Assignment  Read the biography in class— take a few notes on the back of your packet.  Read and annotate these excerpts from Thoreau’s Walden; be prepared for a whole period Socratic Discussion on Tuesday.  Vocab Logs  Note page collation… are backwards Biography

Close Reading  Defining an author’s purpose, and identifying and analyzing the techniques and strategies employed to achieve that purpose.

What is rhetoric?  The traditional definition of rhetoric, first proposed by Aristotle, and embellished over the centuries by scholars and teachers, is that rhetoric is the art of observing in any given case the “available means of persuasion.”

Rhetoric—Whose idea was it?  Socrates: B.C.E. Socrates  Father of Western philosophy and Mentor to Plato. Epistemology and logic.  Plato: B.C.E. Plato:  Student of Socrates and founder of “The Academy” Philosophy, logic, ethics, rhetoric and mathematics.  Aristotle: B.C.E. Aristotle  Student of Plato, and teacher to Alexander the Great.