1. What are you reading?

2. Kathrine Henderson
Kat Henderson is a research analyst for LAC-Group. She has several years of experience as a research librarian working in special libraries, and before this she was an academic librarian at both Arizona State University and Thunderbird School of Global Management. Her areas of expertise include legal and business research, intellectual property, and information ethics. She is also a published author, most recently co-authoring a chapter on Hate Speech in The Library Juice Press Handbook of Intellectual Freedom, which won the 2016 Intellectual Freedom award from the American Library Association. Currently, she is writing a chapter on ethics and intellectual property for a forthcoming college text book. Henderson holds an undergraduate degree in Management from Arizona State University and a Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Kathrine was recently recognized as one of 50 Distinguished Alumni from the School of Information Studies for her contributions to the field of library and information science.

3. AP Language and Composition It’s Tuesday, 8 August 2017
Time will pass; will you? 81 school days remain in the fall semester.
Today’s Objective:
Students will review the standards for credible research, and explore topics and research techniques in the library.

4. Recognition, Happy Birthdays and Congratulations!
Dahaun’s birthday was yesterday, and I missed it!

5. Housekeeping
Paz de Christo is this Friday—if you signed up, you must show up. We need a third person… Thanks!
I will be out tomorrow
Open House is tomorrow night
Please take your schedule home, along with my letter, and give them to your parents
Pictures are tomorrow
You will need your school ID
Keep abreast of the Daily Course Calendar.
Last updated August 8

6. Coming Due—do not squander time—that’s the stuff life’s made of!
Thursday:
Research Topics (1-3 topics, WRITTEN DOWN)
Thank You for Arguing—summer reading —tii upload required
Due/full credit: August 10
Late/last day for credit/25% penalty: August 17

7. Field Trip to the Library
Today’s Class Objective: Students will review the standards for credible research, and explore topics and research techniques in the library.
Field Trip to the Library
Do you have a library card?
Reviewing CARS
Be SAFE when you research

8. The AP Language and Comp Research Project
Today’s Class Objective: Students will be informed of the research project requirements.
The AP Language and Comp Research Project
This is the semester final, both semesters
Fall Semester: Research
Spring Semester: Synthesis and Writing
Overview
First up: Selecting a topic
Please bring in one to three topics for consideration, due next Thursday. Narrow them as much as possible.

9. The “checked practice” assignments
I would rather reward you for effort than punish you with a grade for some assignments. We will do a number of “practice” assignments of varying levels of difficulty. I don’t always expect you to have the “right” answers; indeed, there may be many “right” answers as a matter of opinion. What I look for is thought and effort. I can tell by looking at your work approximately how much thought and time was put into the assignment.  Did you attempt to complete the assignment when you got to class, for example? This would definitely not demonstrate effort.
 If you would like to contest a grade, simply bring the assignment in to me, with proper reasons, and we’ll discuss it.
+: A range (90-100%): Excellence and Effort. Time, effort, and diligence are apparent. All the work is completed; full support is offered for all answers; examples are given when needed. (25 = )
 : B range (80-89%): Adequate work and effort. The work was completed, but more support and effort and development should be apparent. You understood the assignment, but might have done better. (25 = )
 -: C range (70-79%): Average work and effort. An attempt was made to complete the assignment, but your understanding of it is not clear, effort may not be apparent and the work may be sloppy. (25 = )
U: D range (50-69%): unacceptable work. Your work is incomplete, rushed, or simply incorrect. This level or work in unacceptable for an AP-level class. (15)

10. Facts do matter—understand the point of credibility

12. 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.

13. Today’s Class Vocabulary log out
Today’s Class Vocabulary log out? Objective: To review and begin to learn the basics of synthesis writing.
What is synthesis writing?
From a Greek root which means “to put together,” synthesis is the process of bringing together information from various sources, written or visual, to develop a position on a particular topic and form a new whole.
Explanatory Synthesis: brings together sources to illustrate a subject (encyclopedias, textbooks, brochures, museum guides, music performance notes, etc.)
Argumentative Synthesis aims to persuade, to convince readers of a claim. Some evidence (sources) is provided to support the claim, while other evidence (sources) may be used to represent views the writer rejects (commonly known as refutation).

14. 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?”

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

16. 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.

17. 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