1. What should you be reading?

2. Facts do matter—understand the point of credibility

4. AP Language and Composition Wednesday, 3 May 2017
Time 19 school days remain in the spring semester.
Today’s Objective:
Analysis and Discussion: Poetry in Music

5. Recognition, Happy Birthdays and Congratulations!
Congratulations to the new NHS officers:
President, David Nelsen
Vice President, Greg Miller
Secretary, Alek Kemeny
Treasurer, Alina Wang
Historian, Lasya Anantuni
Academic Decathlon finished 5th in the online Nationals competition. Four students won individual medals:
Zhengdong Wang - GOLD Honors Essay
Jane Wang - GOLD Honors literature
Lena Han - SILVER Honors music
Tatum Zsorey - BRONZE - Scholastic literature

6. Housekeeping All books need to be returned by tomorrow
The Language of Composition
Any and all novels
Keep abreast of the Daily Course Calendar.
Last updated April 13

7. Coming Due—do not squander time—that’s the stuff life’s made of!
Collect:
Argument assessments
Vocab Log #12—all from The Great Gatsby
By Tomorrow:
Argument Assessment (100 points) —tii upload required
By Monday, 5/15:
NOW OPTIONAL: Syntax/Vocab Assessment (100 points)

8. Today’s Class: Period 0 vocabulary log out?
Poetry in Music
Today’s Presentations:
Josh
Sage
Lena
Close Reading/Exam Prep
Page 248: Analyzing Styles in Paired Passages
Your group is assigned question #___ on page 251/252

9. Today’s Class: Period 1 vocabulary log out?
Poetry in Music
Today’s Presentations:
We will pull three
Close Reading/Exam Prep
Page 248: Analyzing Styles in Paired Passages
Your group is assigned question #___ on page 251/252

10. Today’s Class: Period 3 vocabulary log out?
Poetry in Music
Today’s Presentations:
Haley
Dalinda
???
Close Reading/Exam Prep
Page 248: Analyzing Styles in Paired Passages
Your group is assigned question #___ on page 251/252

11. 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?”

12. Evaluation The 9-point rubric
9-point descriptors
The Anchor Papers—these are “samples”— responses vary
Camera Shots (these are worth 50 points)
Scoring…

13. 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.

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

15. 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