Facts do matter—understand the point of credibility

AP Language and Composition Tuesday, 17 January 2017 Time will pass; will you? 81 school days remain in the sping semester. Today’s Objectives: To review the upcoming 9 to a 9 unit, and prepare for writing on Thursday To review and practice the next grammar concept: appositives

Recognition, Happy Birthdays and Congratulations! Jane Wang and Dairan Clark last Thursday Brandon Li’s was last Friday Torie Bano’s is today today Iman Husain’s is Thursday Congratulations to the AcDec Team for 1st Place at the Williams Field Invitational Please congratulate the championship team: Lena Han, Jane Wang, Feona Dong, Isaac Moeckly, Tatum Zsorey, Emily Jefferson, Alex Liu, Jennalynn Fung, Sarah Kim, Jaxson Adams, Oliver Lynch, Madisyn Goodballet, and Zuzia Stechly

Thanks… Heather and Hailey for helping those less advantaged at Paz de Chisto last Friday evening. If just everyone gave an hour or two a week…

And here I am… MLK rally yesterday in downtown Phoenix HB 2120

Housekeeping I will be out tomorrow and Thursday Registrations? Behave yourselves—here’s the plans I want you to read—and keep a reading log… research? Registrations? AP exams: Feb. 1 Senior Registration: Feb. 9 Keep abreast of the Daily Course Calendar. Last updated January 10. Writing Contests are now posted on the class website—you can earn optional credit for these. Bringing your book to class—it’s on the assignment calendar, and you are responsible for bringing it!

What should you be reading?

Coming Due—do not squander time—that’s the stuff life’s made of! Turn in today: MLK Graphic Organizer/short narrative essay—tii upload required Vocab Log #7 Due Tuesday: Grammar Lesson #6: appositives Exercises 1-5: questions 1-3

Today’s Class: 9 to a 9—why we do it this way The essays: vary your interest The practice: improve your writing The assessments The test—is secondary, and should be Grammar Lesson #6: Appositives, pg. 167 Review concept Practice concept Exercises 1-4: questions 1-3; Exercise 5, pick one sentence

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.

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

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?”

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.

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