1. What should you be reading?

3. Facts do matter—understand the point of credibility

4. In the United States, more than 40 percent of municipal solid waste is paper -- about 71.8 tons a year.
ECOFACT
Students for a Sustainable School

5. Recognition, Happy Birthdays and Congratulations!
Friday:
Tim Lockhart
Ameera Patel
Saturday:
Thomas Kulaga

6. AP Language and Composition Wednesday, 12 April 2017
Time will pass; will you? 31 school days remain in the spring semester.
Today’s Objectives:
The Great Gatsby
Chapters 1-3

7. Housekeeping
Thanks to Susmita, Jesus, Matt and Teresa for stepping up to volunteer at the food kitchen tomorrow evening!
ACT Testing Locations:
Period 0: Bateson/E-208
Period 1: Pezzorello/E-209
Period 3: Mendoza/E-219
M-Tu: traditional
Wed: late start/Day 2 blks.
(report at 7:25 for ACT)
Th: Day 1 blks
Fr: traditional
Keep abreast of the Daily Course Calendar.
Last updated April 11

8. Coming Due—do not squander time—that’s the stuff life’s made of!
Collect:
ACT test registration packets (10-point completion)
The Great Gatsby, chapters 1-3 —tii upload required
Tuesday:
The Great Gatsby, chapters 4-6 —tii upload required

9. Today/Tomorrow vocabulary log out?
The Great Gatsby, Chapters 1-3
Listening/Responding
Practice close reading/modeling AP questions
Small Group Discussions—your reflections and work
On the card: what is your burning question for the Socratic Discussion?
Whole class Socratic Discussion

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