1. Eco Fact of the Week  Solar technology is a rapidly growing field— the decrease in prices of solar panels coupled with the increase in their efficiency rate have made solar a particularly attractive source of energy. Additionally, solar technology is developing extremely innovate applications; for example, Solar Impulse, a project originating from Switzerland, has led to the development of a plane that runs completely on solar energy. The plane has achieved the longest solo- solar flight in recorded history, and has even flown overnight! Hamilton students could also support the solar movement by learning about solar energy and seeing if they can use it in their own homes.

2. Congratulations!  Yesterday was Natalie’s birthday!

3. AP Language and Composition Monday, 9 May 2016  Time will pass; will you? 11 school days remain in the spring semester.  Today’s Class:  AP Exam review

4. 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  Can you give three hours of your time to prepare and serve a meal to approximately 150 needy and homeless people.  Thanks for volunteering. The last opportunity of the year is this Friday, May 13.

5. Housekeeping  About those Great Gatsby soundtracks…  Check in Language of Composition books.  Grades are about done—alert me to any discrepancies.  Archiving your work for the portfolio— it’s in green on the course calendar.  The Daily Course Calendar is regularly updated, and posted on the class website— last updated on 4/20.  Making up work? Need to see me? Please make an appointment.

6. Coming Due—do not squander time— that’s the stuff life’s made of!  Thursday:  Pre-reading, “Why I Wrote The Crucible”  ALL Language of Composition books must be returned by Thursday, May 12. Start returning them tomorrow.  Portfolio updates: 5/19

7. Today’s Class  Assign: The Crucible pre-reading: Arthur Miller’s “Why I Wrote The Crucible”  Essay Review  The Lord is thy prompt…  Synthesis  Analysis  Argument

8. Synthesis  This is still YOUR essay—to explain or argue an issue—the PROMPT  The more of your voice, the better  Must use three, documented sources  Use sources to  prompt a discussion of your position  borrow a quote  support YOUR ideas and claims

9. Analysis  Intro: what is the writer trying to accomplish in this piece? It’s fairly formulaic (develop by chronology or strategies)—so, you can mention these in the intro  Academic Voice:  Present tense when referencing the text  3 rd person POV only  Analyze:  Appeals —”why”  Strategies —”how”

10. Argument  Understand the nature of the position taken in the prompt  Take a specific stand—agree, qualify, or disagree—with the assertion in the prompt  Clearly and logically support your claim

11. The “100” Club  Period 0: Average: 90.5  Valerie: Transgender Identify  Rahul: Selective Service  Anuj: Sport Concussions  Period 1: 88.5  Veronica: ADHD  Gaurav: Vaccinations  Hannah: Nuclear Disarmament  Raywa: Privacy  Rohit: Nuclear Proliferation  Vig: Ocean Harvesting

12. The “100” Club  Period 3: 87.7  Nicole: Social Media  Ashley: Obesity  Dhruv: Gun “Control”  Jordon: Cell phones and social media  Aiden: Minimum wage  Period 4: 90.2  Jacob: electric cars  Avery: stem cells

13. The “100” Club  Period 5: 91.9  Megan: music and learning  Lucien: electoral college (Best Voice)  Jacqueline: GMOs  Pratik: gun control  Heewon: prostitution (Best Topic)  Micah: gun control  Maddy: vaccinations  Jamie: mothers in prison

14. Close Reading:  Close Reading: Defining an author’s purpose, and identifying and analyzing the techniques and strategies employed to achieve and support that purpose.  NO talking—and, do you really need to go to the bathroom that badly?  Vocab Log #13 out?  Term logs out?  30 minutes, questions  7 minute group discussion. Circle two questions from each set to discuss with your group—these are the only four questions you can change, but only after discussion.  Score and turn in

15. You’re killing us… so says the college board…  Goals:  Create strong writers who will have the necessary skills to write effectively in their college courses and in their personal and professional lives  Foster reading “between the lines”—extracting the connotative meanings of words and the cultural, political, or historical contexts of various texts.  Encourage students to be informed citizens and consumers who understand the manipulation of a variety of media by advertisers, politicians, and institutions to impact them in their daily lives.  Course Outcomes:  To evaluate, practice, increase proficiency, and master at an individual rate your ability to be a creator of and an informed receiver of language and all forms of communication both verbal and non-verbal but with an emphasis on written language  To demonstrate sound logical thinking and critical judgment drawing on research, knowledge of the world, and personal experience  To develop to proficiency effectiveness of persuasive and argumentative writing and independent thought  To practice to proficiency rhetorical analysis of both fiction and non-fiction across time and culture, evaluate argument, and create an argument with sophistication and nuance  To master all elements of composition including content, focus, conventions, and style  To experience regularly and practice to proficiency a timed environment for both multiple choice and writing assessments

16. 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.”

17. Rhetoric—Whose idea was it?  Socrates: 469-399 B.C.E. Socrates  Father of Western philosophy and Mentor to Plato. Epistemology and logic.  Plato: 424-348 B.C.E. Plato:  Student of Socrates and founder of “The Academy” Philosophy, logic, ethics, rhetoric and mathematics.  Aristotle: 384-322 B.C.E. Aristotle  Student of Plato, and teacher to Alexander the Great.