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Addiction Issues? Is your cell phone in your backpack?

Housekeeping Competitive Submissions/Active Writing contests (posted on the class website): 4 You may earn a one-time, 50-point optional assessment credit for submitting. Keep abreast of the Daily Course Calendar. This is a fluid document… Last updated October 26

Recognition, Happy Birthdays and Congratulations! Tomorrow: Happy Birthday, Melinda!

Thursday puns If you jumped off the bridge in Paris, you’d be in Seine. A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks at him and says, ‘I’m sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger.’ Two fish swim into a concrete wall. One turns to the other and says ‘Dam!’ Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the craft. Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can’t have your kayak and heat it too. Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says, ‘I’ve lost my electron.’ The other says ‘Are you sure?’ The first replies, ‘Yes, I’m positive.’ Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root canal? His goal: transcend dental medication. There was the person who sent ten puns to friends, with the hope that at least one of the puns would make them laugh. No pun in ten did.

AP Language and Composition It’s Thursday, 26 October 2017 Time will pass; will you? 38 school days remain in the fall semester. Today’s Objectives: Students will: Understanding the tenets, techniques and purpose of satire.

Coming Due—do not squander time—that’s the stuff life’s made of! Monday: Huck Finn permission slips Vocab Log #4 Annotated Bibs # 5-7 —tii upload is required —please upload these as three separate documents: #5, #6 and #7 Note on time management: You should be spending 3-5 hours a week on research. You should be completing the vocab/grammar assessment as the lessons and logs are completed.

Today’s Class: practicing AP-level multiple choice questions Group Work—this time

The purpose of political satire Student samples: Satire Today’s Class: Understanding the tenets, techniques and purpose of satire. The purpose of political satire Student samples: Satire Target and purpose? Juvenilian or Horatian? Techniques Samples: student projects

Self-Assessment Compared to my table mates’ responses, mine are On target: 23-25 points Full sentences, names and analyzes the strategy fully Need a bit more development: 21-22 points Need more focus, and development: 18-20 points I did not word-process: -5 I did not complete the assignment, but took notes: +15 I got ____/9 on the multiple-choice I read and annotated the essay: ____/10 My total score is ____/44. Staple everything and turn in—turn in HF permission slip as well, if you have it.

Research and Credibility—where are the facts? Class Website Reviewing CARS—your “bible” for research The CARS Checklist for Research (Credibility, Accuracy, Reasonableness, Support) Be SAFE when you research—look for Statistics, Anecdotes, Facts and Expert Opinions Check your Works Cited entries at OWL—the On-line Writing Lab at Purdue

Whose idea was this rhetoric thing? Socrates: 469-399 B.C.E. Father of Western philosophy and Mentor to Plato. Epistemology and logic. Plato: 424-348 B.C.E. Student of Socrates and founder of “The Academy” Philosophy, logic, ethics, rhetoric and mathematics. Aristotle: 384-322 B.C.E. Student of Plato, and teacher to Alexander the Great.

AP one-word scoring descriptors for timed writing essays: Effective and Adequate Essays Ineffective Essays A 9 is “unique” An 8 is “sophisticated” A 7 is “effective” A 6 is “adequate” A 5 is “uneven” A 4 is “inadequate” A 3 is “unsuccessful” A 2 is “confusing” A 1 is “ugh?”

The “checked practice” assignments I would rather reward you for effort than punish you with a grade for some assignments. We will do a number of “practice” assignments of varying levels of difficulty. I don’t always expect you to have the “right” answers; indeed, there may be many “right” answers as a matter of opinion. What I look for is thought and effort. I can tell by looking at your work approximately how much thought and time was put into the assignment.  Did you attempt to complete the assignment when you got to class, for example? This would definitely not demonstrate effort.  If you would like to contest a grade, simply bring the assignment in to me, with proper reasons, and we’ll discuss it.   +: A range (90-100%): Excellence and Effort. Time, effort, and diligence are apparent. All the work is completed; full support is offered for all answers; examples are given when needed. (25 = 22.5-25)  : B range (80-89%): Adequate work and effort. The work was completed, but more support and effort and development should be apparent. You understood the assignment, but might have done better. (25 = 20-22.5)  -: C range (70-79%): Average work and effort. An attempt was made to complete the assignment, but your understanding of it is not clear, effort may not be apparent and the work may be sloppy. (25 = 17.5-20) U: D range (50-69%): unacceptable work. Your work is incomplete, rushed, or simply incorrect. This level or work in unacceptable for an AP-level class. (15)

Facts do matter—understand the point of credibility

Rhetoric Rhetoric: Close Reading: Rhetorical Analysis: 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.” Close Reading: Reading to “develop an understanding of a text, written or visual, that is based first on the words and images themselves and then on the larger ideas those words suggest.” Rhetorical Analysis: Defining an author’s purpose, then identifying and analyzing the techniques and strategies employed to achieve that purpose.

Today’s Class Vocabulary log out Today’s Class Vocabulary log out? Objective: To review and begin to learn the basics of synthesis writing. What is synthesis writing? From a Greek root which means “to put together,” synthesis is the process of bringing together information from various sources, written or visual, to develop a position on a particular topic and form a new whole. Explanatory Synthesis: brings together sources to illustrate a subject (encyclopedias, textbooks, brochures, museum guides, music performance notes, etc.) Argumentative Synthesis aims to persuade, to convince readers of a claim. Some evidence (sources) is provided to support the claim, while other evidence (sources) may be used to represent views the writer rejects (commonly known as refutation).

Evaluation The 9-point rubric 9-point descriptors The Anchor Papers—these are “samples”— responses vary Camera Shots (these are worth 50 points) Scoring…

Why Goals and Objectives? Course Goal—broad, long-term To understand the elements of argument and other genres or writing, and apply them in both writing, and analysis. Daily Objective—accomplishing “pieces” of the “goal,” one step at a time To understand and evaluate the finer elements argument