AP Language and Composition Friday, 11 September 2015  Time will pass; will you? 54 school days remain in the fall semester.  Today’s Class:  Library Research  “Transcendentalism is more an outlook or frame of mind than an actual philosophy”

Recognition  Happy Birthday (Virgos Rock)!  Dexter  Maddy

Housekeeping and Recognition  Paz de Christo—Thanks for your altruism!  Justin Zhu—0  Alyssa Morris—1  Aiden Totten—3  Andrew Munguia—4  Halle Lefkowitz—5  The daily Power Points are now available on the class website, just beneath the course calendar.  Making up work? Need to see me? I am available tomorrow after school.  Please keep your grades monitored in IC, and alert me immediately to any discrepancies.  The Daily Course Calendar was last updated on September 11  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!  Monday:  Vocab Log #3  Counseling is in all period—ECAP. Bring Thoreau reading—there may be some reading time.  Tuesday:  Discussion Prep, from Thoreau’s Walden—read and annotate.  Wednesday:  Socratic Discussion: Thoreau’s Walden  Thursday:  Annotated Bibs # 3 and 4

Today’s Class  Library Research:  Have vocab log in hand…  Today’s Instruction:  Popular magazines vs. scholarly journals  Boolean operators  Library Time: 25 participation points—stay on task—if you’re bored, it’s your fault—you chose this topic!  -2 points: each time you’re off task (research or instruction)  -25 points: using your cell phone  -25 points: “illegal” window/screen (i.e. games, Facebook)  Absences are exempt from points

Philosophy Essay Prompt (drafts due 9/22):  Pick one idea from anything we have read in this unit, and write an essay which explains what that idea means to you. You must directly quote at least one piece of writing.  Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave”  Roy Baumeister’s “Do You Really Have Free Will?”  Bryant’s “Thanatopsis”  Ralph Waldo Emerson  “Self-Reliance,” or related essays  “Nature”  Henry David Thoreau—from Walden

Assign: readings from Thoreau’s Walden Assignment  Read the biography in class— take a few notes on the back of your packet.  Read and annotate these excerpts from Thoreau’s Walden; be prepared for a whole period Socratic Discussion on Tuesday.  Vocab Logs  Note page collation… are backwards Biography

Close Reading  Defining an author’s purpose, and identifying and analyzing the techniques and strategies employed to achieve that purpose.

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: B.C.E. Socrates  Father of Western philosophy and Mentor to Plato. Epistemology and logic.  Plato: B.C.E. Plato:  Student of Socrates and founder of “The Academy” Philosophy, logic, ethics, rhetoric and mathematics.  Aristotle: B.C.E. Aristotle  Student of Plato, and teacher to Alexander the Great.