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AP Language and Composition Monday, 19 October 2015 Time will pass; will you? 40 school days remain in the fall semester. Today’s Class: How to learn from your writing errors— how to revise and improve your writing

Housekeeping Please keep your grades monitored in IC, and alert me immediately to any discrepancies. The Daily Course Calendar was last updated on October 16 Making up work? Need to see me? Please make an appointment. 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! Due Monday: Vocabulary Log #4; Vocabulary Sentence Set #2 –tii upload required Annotated bibs # 5, 6 and 7 –tii upload required Word-processed timed writing—no revisions or changes

Today’s Class Collate and turn in annotated bibs Turn in vocabulary Turn in timed writing Return Philosophy essays How to do real revision work Are you and the teacher the only ones who ever see your writing? Does what you’ve written make sense What is the purpose of each paragraph? How to complete the revision work

Close Reading Defining an author’s purpose, and identifying and analyzing the techniques and strategies employed to achieve that purpose. Vocab and term logs out? New reading groups

“Dear Grove Press” 1. This letter is six paragraphs. What would you say is the discrete point of each paragraph? Write a brief descriptive phrase for each, labeling them one through six. 2. When Herbert says “We believe you will agree” ‘at the start of the third paragraph, how do you read his tone? What do you think he is really saying there? 3. How persuasive do you find this letter? What do you think is Herbert’s approach? How is he trying to persuade Gove? 4. What is the strongest part of Herbert’s argument? What is the weakest? What would you say is the tone of this letter?

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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: 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.