Housekeeping  Is your grade correct? Please keep your grades monitored in IC, and alert me immediately to any discrepancies.  The Daily Course Calendar for this term has been posted on the class website  Writing contests are now posted on the class website; optional credit is available for submissions—see me for details.  Making up work? Need to see me? Please make an appointment.

Paz de Christo Food Kitchen I slept and dreamed that life was joy. I awoke and found that life was but service. I served and discovered that service was joy.  Rabindranath Tagore  Thanks for giving 3 hours of your time to prepare and serve a meal to approximately 150 needy and homeless people last Friday:  Makenna Little  Ashley Dussalt  Ryan Silva  Jenna Glew

AP Language and Composition Tuesday, 12 January 2016  Time will pass; will you? 80 school days remain in the spring semester.  Today’s Class:  Putting together a presentation plan  “And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.”  Homer

Congratulations!  Today’s Birthdays!  Momen Abdelkarim  Joseph Kong

Hamilton AP Exam Registration  Registration is open November 1 thru February 1  Register at  Students must register and pay by February 1. Students that register after February 1 will be charged a late fee of $10 per exam.  This registration link is posted on the class website, just under the Daily Course Calendar.

Coming Due—do not squander time— that’s the stuff life’s made of!  Thursday/Friday:  Presentations: Fast Food Nation  Tuesday, 1/19  Vocabulary Log #9 (on your desk—think FFN)

Today’s Class: Putting together a presentation  Put together a plan—who’s doing what? Make sure you exchange communication information.  Summary of the Chapter  Analysis of Strategies  Impressions…  Not everyone has to speak, but everyone has to share equally in the work—so, if you’re not presenting, are you doing more of the visual/prep work?

SSS—Silent Sustained Reading  Read and annotate “There’s a good reason Americans are horrible at science” Due tomorrow (20 points for annotating)  Be prepared for group work and discussion of this essay  Content  Argumentative Strategies

Today’s Class  Close Reading: Defining an author’s purpose, and identifying and analyzing the techniques and strategies employed to achieve that purpose.  Vocab Log #9 out?  Term logs out?  18 minutes “Four fish, then.”  5 minute group discussion. Circle two questions to discuss with your group—these are the only two questions you can change, but only after discussion.  Score and turn in

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.