1. Dual Credit—you may apply for admission on-line, but must register for classes here at HHS.
SCHOOL YEAR
DATES
EVENT
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
HHS OPEN HOUSE (CGCC Dual Enrollment at D100)
Monday, August 15, 2016
ACCUPLACER 2:30-4:00
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Friday, August 19, 2016
REGISTRATION IS  DUE IN C223
ACCUPLACER TESTING WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE LIBRARY, ALL OTHER TESTING WILL HAVE TO BE DONE AT CGCC
*SENIORS ARE ABLE TO COME ON THEIR ALPHA DAY AT 11:45 OR 2:30-4:00
Other Dual Credit info
Forms for enrollment are in C223 if needed, DO NOT PICK CLASSES ONLINE. BUT OK TO DO ADMISSIONS ON LINE.
Tuition for is $86 per credit, with a $15 registration fee per semester.
The payment deadline for Fall is Monday, September 19, 2016.
For Spring registrations,the payment deadline is Monday, February 13, 2017. 

3. Recognition and Congratulations!
Congratulations Tyler—HHS’s starting quarterback this football season!

4. AP Language and Composition Wednesday, 17 August 2015
Time will pass; will you? 75 school days remain in the fall semester.
Today’s Objectives:
To practice synthesis writing

5. Housekeeping Do you have your portfolio?
Pictures are due in next week. Retakes are 9/19.
Are you monitoring your grade? Alert me immediately to any discrepancies.
Bringing your book to class—it’s on the assignment calendar, and you are responsible for bringing it!
The Daily Course Calendar was last updated on August 11
Are you reading?

6. Coming Due—do not squander time—that’s the stuff life’s made of!
Tomorrow:
Summer Reading (last chance to turn in with 25% penalty) —tii upload required
Tuesday, 8/23
Chapter 2 notes—The Language of Composition

7. Today’s Class— please have your vocabulary logs on your desks
Approaching Research
What have you decided to write about? Bring in tomorrow.
Synthesis Writing
This is a practice writing—relax, take your time—45 minutes. Pace yourself—you should have no more than 5-10 minutes left on the time when you are done.
Workshop on Tuesday

8. What is rhetoric?
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.”

9. Rhetoric—Whose idea was it?
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.

10. Rhetorical Analysis
Defining an author’s purpose, and identifying and analyzing the techniques and strategies employed to achieve that purpose.