1. Eco Fact of the Week

2. Recognition, Happy Birthdays and Congratulations!

3. What should you be reading?

4. AP Language and Composition Wednesday, 11 January 2017
Time will pass; will you? 85 school days remain in the fall semester.
Today’s Objectives:
To read, analyze and respond to Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”

5. Housekeeping Have you registered for your AP exams?
Keep abreast of the Daily Course Calendar.
Last updated January 10.
Writing Contests are now posted on the class website—you can earn optional credit for these.
Bringing your book to class—it’s on the assignment calendar, and you are responsible for bringing it!

6. Coming Due—do not squander time—that’s the stuff life’s made of!
Tuesday
MLK Graphic Organizer/short narrative essay—tii upload required
Vocab Log #7

7. Today’s Class: Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
Assignment
Find a copy?
Use as a checklist?
Background
Reading
Tomorrow: please have the essay read, your two “chucks” for analysis and your “prompt” for the narrative chosen

8. Facts do matter—understand the point of credibility

9. 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.

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

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. 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.

14. 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