1. What should you be reading?

3. Facts do matter—understand the point of credibility

4. Eco Fact of the Week

5. Recognition, Happy Birthdays and Congratulations!

6. AP Language and Composition Thursday, 27 April 2017
Time will pass; will you? 23 school days remain in the spring semester.
Today’s Objective:
Analysis and Discussion: The Great Gatsby

7. Housekeeping My Great Gatsby dream…
Midnight in Paris—this is a great movie
Check your grade—I’m posting progress reports 5th hour today on my prep
Argument Assessments
The Great Gatsby, the movie will be shown after school today, 2:30-4: optional credit points for full attendance.
Check in phones and sign in. Come to watch the movie, or don’t come
Keep abreast of the Daily Course Calendar.
Last updated April 13

8. Coming Due—do not squander time—that’s the stuff life’s made of!
Monday:
Poetry in Music
Vocab Log #12—all from The Great Gatsby
Thursday, 5/4:
Argument Assessment (100 points) —tii upload required
Monday, 5/15:
NOW OPTIONAL: Syntax/Vocab Assessment (100 points)

9. Today’s Class vocabulary log out?
The Great Gatsby—wrapping it up
Close reading practice—score and turn in
Small group discussions: determining theme
Money
Class Structure
Love
Class discussion
SSR: “The Greatness of The Great Gatsby”
Check in books

10. 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?”

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

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. 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