Facts do matter—understand the point of credibility

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…

What should you be reading?

Something to think about…

AP Language and Composition Wednesday, 25 January 2017 Time will pass; will you? 74 school days remain in the spring semester. Today’s Objectives: To review a basic outline for the research paper, and answer questions about the introduction and narration To practice close reading in a group

Recognition, Happy Birthdays and Congratulations! Mikaela’s birthday is today! Alaria’s is Friday!

Housekeeping I will be out again—Tomorrow and Friday Registrations? Behave yourselves—here’s the plan: synthesis essay #2/Bring something to read You’ll be writing another precis—here’s the score sheet 3rd hour, you’ll be taking c-lunch—again. Sorry. Registrations? AP exams: Feb. 1—next Wednesday Senior Registration: Feb. 9 Keep abreast of the Daily Course Calendar. Last updated January 24. 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!

Coming Due—do not squander time—that’s the stuff life’s made of! Due Monday, 1/30: Vocab Log #8 (sources for your essay?) Due Tuesday, 1/31: Research Paper—introduction and narration—1-3 paragraphs/word-processed

Today’s Class: Synthesis Essay #1: Locovores Turn in essays Note two areas for improvement on your next coversheet… Distribute cover sheets for tomorrow’s essay—is college worth the cost? The Research Paper—writing begins… Using a working outline (note, page ?? in your text) How long does your paper need to be? Note: skill is more important than length—but a more developed argument general scores higher

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?”

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.

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