1. What should you be reading?

3. Facts do matter—understand the point of credibility

4. AP Language and Composition Wednesday, 5 April 2017
Time will pass; will you? 36 school days remain in the spring semester.
Today’s Objectives:
A smaller, more “personalized” argument—9 to a 9

5. Recognition, Happy Birthdays and Congratulations!
The #8 Lady Huskies Tennis Team (7-4) defeated #20 Desert Ridge yesterday afternoon by a final score of The girls were led by senior Taylor Johnson and junior Kira Dohse who teamed up at #3 doubles for the big 9-8 (9-7) win in a tiebreaker.

6. Housekeeping This week’s schedule Next Week’s Schedule:
Tomorrow: Day 2 block class
Friday: traditional schedule, 0-7
Next Week’s Schedule:
Monday, April 10 – Traditional Day
Tuesday, April 11th AIMS Science – EARLY RELEASE
AIMS Science Test 11:35-2:14
Zero hour – 6:25 – 7:20
1st period – 7:25 – 7:55 (30 min.)
2nd period – 8:00– 8:30 (30 min.)
3rd period – 8:35 – 9:05 (30 min.)
4th period – 9:10 – 9:40 (30 min.)
5th period – 9:45 – 10:15 (30 min.)
6th period – 10:20 – 10:50 (30 min.)
No 7th period
Release students not testing at 10:50 AM
Lunch 11:00-11:30
Wednesday, April 12 – Block Day 1
Thursday, April 13 – Block Day 2
Friday, April 14 – NO SCHOOL/”Spring Holiday”
Keep abreast of the Daily Course Calendar.
Last updated April 5

7. Coming Due—do not squander time—that’s the stuff life’s made of!
Monday, 4/10:
Vocab log #10 (are you working on those sentences?)
Rhetorical Analysis Assessment —tii upload required
Tuesday, 4/11
The Great Gatsby, chapters 1-3 —tii upload required

8. Today’s class: 9 to a 9: Writing a less formal argument vocabulary log out?
9 to a 9: Argument
This is the most “creative” of the three essays
You can write “outside the box” as long as you stay on prompt
Deconstruct the prompt
Take a “position,” if asked to write an argument
Planning: BRAINSTORM—possibly OUTLINE, first
Think about anecdotal evidence
Think about incorporating quotes from the narrative
Think about refutation (see a claim to refute?)

9. 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?”

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. 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.

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.

13. 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