AP Language and Composition Monday, 9 November 2015 Time will pass; will you? 25 school days remain in the fall semester. Today’s Class: Now what? Focusing your research, taking a position, and writing an introduction. Close Reading Practice

Congratulations! GIRLS SWIM/DIVE---Your ladies placed 9th in the team standings. Jamie Seddon placed 6th in the 200 yd. freestyle and 8th in the 100 yd. butterfly. 

Housekeeping Please keep your grades monitored in IC, and alert me immediately to any discrepancies. The Daily Course Calendar was last updated November 4 Making up work? Need to see me? Please make an appointment.

Coming Due—do not squander time—that’s the stuff life’s made of! Tomorrow Satire Projects due—presentations begin, and will be wrapped on Thursday/Friday Wednesday: No School: Veteran’s Day Monday: Vocab log #6; Vocab sentences, set 3 Introductory paragraphs—research papers The next assignment due is Part I, Huck Finn, due Nov. 19 . You should be reading. Groups 2 and 3—you should be writing.

Today’s Class: A few hints for your satire presentations What now? Relax, it’s fun. The analysis: speaking spontaneously is probably better than reading… Volunteers? What now? Taking a final position Looking at structure Writing an introduction Close Reading practice

“Only a Nigger” by Mark Twain Discuss in your groups: Why does Twain use the words “negroes” and “negro” and consistently put the word “nigger” in quotation marks? In this essay, written seven years before he began work on Huckleberry Finn, Twain clearly uses the word “nigger” to signify the racist dehumanization of African Americans by Southern whites. In “Only a Nigger,” he uses the words negroes and negro, and consistently puts “nigger” in quotes to indicate that it is the dehumanizing word used by the Southerners whose mob law he is criticizing in the essay.

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?

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.