1. Whose idea was it? Socrates: 469-399 B.C.E. Plato: 424-348 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.

3. Eco Fact of the Week
Boston University's Dining Services collaborate with departments including Facilities Management & Planning, Sourcing and Procurement, and recycling and composting companies like Save That Stuff, which helps find out about more environmentally friendly products and more sustainable practices. Because of this collaboration, BU can incorporate sustainability into Dining Services on multiple levels. For instance, BU purchases many organic food products from local farms and growers whenever economically possible, and eggs served on campus have been cage free since September Additionally, all seafood is purchased according to the guidelines of the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the Marine Stewardship Council. BU's Dining Services is also committed to diverting waste from landfills. In 2012, they have diverted 828 tons from landfills, with 252 tons of waste recycled and 576 tons of food waste and organic materials composted.
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4. Recognition and Congratulations!
Happy Birthday!
Sierra Medina
Tyler Shough

5. 51 of the most beautiful sentences in literature @buzzfeed.com
46. “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

6. AP Language and Composition Wednesday, 28 September 2016
Time will pass; will you? 46 school days remain in the fall semester; it’s 2 more days until fall break!
Today’s Objectives:
To read Henry David Thoreau’s essay “Civil Disobedience” and analyze its content.

7. Housekeeping
Dead Poets Society tomorrow, 2:30-4: optional credit points for FULL two-hour attendance.
The Daily Course Calendar was last updated September 26
Writing Contests are now posted on the class website—you can earn optional credit for these.
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!
Are you reading?

8. Coming Due—do not squander time—that’s the stuff life’s made of!
Tomorrow:
Transcendentalism Work
How do you want to organize tomorrow’s class?
What’s due?
Due Wednesday, 10/19
Philosophy essay drafts

9. Transcendentalism Reading and Thinking (vocab logs out)
Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience”:
Curtis White’s “The Spirit of Disobedience”
Required/on card: Write one higher-level discussion question from either essay

10. Today’s Class— please have your vocabulary logs on your desks
Video: Political Theory—Henry David Thoreau
Part I: “Civil Disobedience”
Choose one of the following to complete. Hand-written, in ink.
Pre-analysis: Write a detailed rhetorical precis
Analyzing appeals: Choose on appeal to pathos, and one appeal to logos, and explain how Thoreau develops those appeals with appropriate strategies
Analyzing argument: Identify at least two claims, and explain how Thoreau supports those claims with specific arguments/evidence.

11. Transcendentalism
An idealistic philosophical and social movement that developed in New England around 1836 in reaction to rationalism. Influenced by romanticism, Platonism, and Kantian philosophy, it taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity, and its members held progressive views on feminism and communal living. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were central figures.

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 that is based first on the words 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.