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Recognition and Congratulations! Happy Birthday!
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AP Language and Composition Tuesday, 9 August 2015 Time will pass; will you? 82 school days remain in the spring semester. Today’s Objectives: To take school pictures. To review and narrow research topics. To review tomorrow’s class for the guest speaker, and review Thursday’s and Monday’s assignments.
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Housekeeping HHS will offer a practice PSAT on August 20 th from 9-noon in the cafeteria. This is a great, low-stress opportunity to practice for the upcoming PSAT on October 15 th, and the SAT on October 7 th. Sign up in the bookstore. Have you looked at your grade? I am now inputting grades; please keep your grades monitored in IC, and alert me immediately to any discrepancies. Dual-enrollment You may apply for admission on-line, but you must register for classes here at HHS in C-223 Bringing your book to class—it’s on the assignment calendar, and you are responsible for bringing it! The Daily Course Calendar was last updated on August 1 Are you reading?
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Coming Due—do not squander time— that’s the stuff life’s made of! Monday, 8/15 Summer Reading —tii upload required Narrowed final research topic, with interest narrative (directions are posted on the class website) Narrative Revision —tii upload required Vocabulary Log #1
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Today’s Class— please have your vocabulary logs on your desks Pictures—proceed to Camera #3 Per. 0 @ 6:40 Per. 1 @ 7:30 Per. 3 @ 9:30 Review Topics Review Work for Thursday Bring your book to class on Thursday! Review Agenda/Decorum for tomorrow’s guest speakerAgenda Speaker Bio: Katherine Henderson
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Kathrine Henderson Education: MLIS University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, B.S. Management, ASU. Career highlights. Currently Katherine Henderson is a Research Analyst at LAC-Group. She is on a virtual team called Library as a Service. She conducts legal research, prepares competitive intelligence reports, fact checking and story deployment support for media (for reporters/editors), and copyright clearance and licensing. Her clients are major law firms and fortunate 500 companies. Prior to this she was the research librarian for the Auditor General for the State of Arizona. She began her library career as an academic librarian with expertise in business and instructional programs for the library, although her first career was in marketing. Personal research interests: Katherine’s primary interest is in Information Ethics with an emphasis on Copyright and Intellectual Property. She is a published author, including co- authoring a text book for graduate students called Case Studies in Library and Information Science Ethics. Her current project is a text book chapter on copyright as an information ethic. Other research interests include first amendment issues of free speech and privacy. Fun stuff: Katherine is an avid mystery reader. She loves to cook and is trying grow her own tomatoes and herbs. She lives in a 101 year old bungalow in downtown Tucson, which is being remodeled/restored, with much excitement and noise. She and her husband often ride their tandem bikes to check out the downtown and arts scene in Tucson. Their son, Luc, is 19 and a sophomore at NAU.
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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.”
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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.
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Rhetorical Analysis Defining an author’s purpose, and identifying and analyzing the techniques and strategies employed to achieve that purpose.
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