1. Thanks…
Josh and Nic for helping those less advantaged at Paz de Chisto last Friday evening. If just everyone gave an hour or two a week…

2. What should you be reading?

3. Recognition, Happy Birthdays and Congratulations!
Kalyssa Harris—Friday
Sam Lopez—Sunday
Izaak Hernandez—Monday
Good luck at The Southwest AMEA Regional Band, Orchestra, and Choir Competition
Monet T and Rose W—viola
Meredith P and Kenzie M—choir
Olivia Blacker—violin
Elissa Travis—woodwinds

4. Facts do matter—understand the point of credibility

5. AP Language and Composition Wednesday, 15 February 2017
Time will pass; will you? 59 school days remain in the spring semester.
Today’s Objectives:
There’s just you and me and we just disagree… writing a refutation.

6. Housekeeping About those research paper grades…
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The last day to pay for your AP exams is Wednesday
Keep abreast of the Daily Course Calendar.
Last updated February 6
Writing Contests are now posted on the class website—you can earn optional credit for these. Updated February 6
Bringing your book to class—it’s on the assignment calendar, and you are responsible for bringing it!

7. Coming Due—do not squander time—that’s the stuff life’s made of!
Tuesday:
Grammar Lesson #8: Concise Diction (this should be completed in class on Thursday; BRING YOUR BOOKS!).
Are you working on those vocabulary sentences like I advised?

8. Today’s class vocabulary log out?

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.

14. 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