1. What should you be reading?

3. Facts do matter—understand the point of credibility

4. Recognition, Happy Birthdays and Congratulations!

5. Housekeeping Keep abreast of the Daily Course Calendar.
Last updated March 28

6. AP Language and Composition Wednesday, 29 March 2017
Time will pass; will you? 41 school days remain in the spring semester.
Today’s Objectives:
Introducing F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.” –F. Scott Fitzgerald

7. Coming Due—do not squander time—that’s the stuff life’s made of!
Friday:
“The Crack-up” (multiple choice/10 points—completed in class)
Matthew Bruccoli’s introduction to the novel (5 bullets/10 points—word-processed)

8. Today’s class: Writing a rhetorical analysis vocabulary log out?
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
Viewing: A & E’s biography: F. Scott Fitzgerald

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