1. What should you be reading?

2. Facts do matter—understand the point of credibility

4. Recognition, Happy Birthdays and Congratulations!
Happy Birthday to Erika!

5. AP Language and Composition Monday, 15 May 2017
Time 11 school days remain in the spring semester.
Today’s Objectives:
Debriefing the AP exam
Introduction to Arthur Miller’s The Crucible
Act I

6. Recognition, Happy Birthdays and Congratulations!
Thanks to Sage, Maddy and Paige for volunteering at Paz de Chisto on Friday. It’s small efforts that count the most!

7. Housekeeping Collect annotated notes Book returns
The Language of Composition
Any and all novels
Collect optional syntax/vocab assignment
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!
No homework this week

9. Today’s Class The AP exam Multiple-choice Synthesis: Libraries
Analysis:
Argument: Artifice
noun
1.a clever trick or stratagem; a cunning, crafty device or expedient; wile.
2.trickery; guile; craftiness.
3.cunning; ingenuity; inventiveness: a drawing-room comedy crafted with artifice and elegance.
4.a skillful or artful contrivance or expedient.

10. Today’s Class Miller’s The Crucible
The central idea in any piece of literature is always THEME
Assessment
Taking Notes for the test
Intro: Video Notes
Reading: Act I

11. 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?”

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

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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