Whose idea was it? Socrates: 469-399 B.C.E. Plato: 424-348 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.

Recognition and Congratulations! It’s Dorothy’s birthday!

Eco Fact of the Week

ECOFACT Americans throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour.  Each one takes 400 to 1000 years to degrade About 75% of those water bottles that could be recycled end up in landfills. If even one quarter of the plastic bottles at Hamilton were recycled, this would save over plastic from degrading for over 4 million years in landfills. Students for a Sustainable School

AP Language and Composition Monday, 19 September 2016 Time will pass; will you? 53 school days remain in the fall semester. Today’s Objectives: To review subordination in syntax construction. To practice close reading

Housekeeping The Daily Course Calendar was last updated September 16 Writing Contests are now posted on the class website—you can earn optional credit for these. Are you monitoring your grade? Alert me immediately to any discrepancies. Bringing your book to class—it’s on the assignment calendar, and you are responsible for bringing it! Are you reading?

Coming Due—do not squander time—that’s the stuff life’s made of! Due Monday Annotated Bibliographies #3 and #4 Vocab Log #4; Sentence Set #2 Due Thursday, 9/22 Transcendentalism Work Due Wednesday, 10/19 Philosophy essay drafts

Today’s Class— please have your vocabulary logs on your desks Grammar Lesson #3, page 999, subordination and coordination in the compound sentence. Exercises 1 and 2: 1-5 Exercise 3: 1-2 Close Reading Practice

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 that is based first on the words 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.