1. Facts do matter—understand the point of credibility

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

3. What should you be reading?

4. AP Language and Composition Tuesday, 7 February 2017
Time will pass; will you? 65 school days remain in the spring semester.
Today’s Objectives:
To practice close reading in a multiple-choice fomat.

5. Recognition, Happy Birthdays and Congratulations!
Last Weekend…
The Model U.N. performed admirably in a tournament at MCC, including these distinguished delegates, who need to be in the top % of their committee. Let’s congratulate Saaz Mantri, Shardul Kothapalli, Paige Gagliardi and Susmita Bagchi.
Hamilton’s Academic Decathlon team successfully defended their Regional trophy, bringing home the regional championship for the second year in a row. In addition, they won the Super Quiz relay and several individual medals. Let’s congratulate Lena Han, Jane Wang, and Madisyn Goodballet.
Honors medals:
Jane Wang – 3rd OVERALL HONORS, 1st Lang and Lit, 2nd Science, 3rd Math, 3rd Econ, 3rd Social Science
Lena Han, - 2nd OVERALL HONORS, 2nd Lang and Lit, 2nd, Music, 2nd Science, 3rd Art, 3rd Math (tie), 1st essay

6. Housekeeping
Paz de Chisto is this Friday, February 10 —two volunteers?
FREE TUTORING NOW AVAILABLE! Sign up with me.
Registrations?
AP Exams:
Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 5:00 PM - Late Registration Ends/Final Day for Payment
Questions? C-223.
Senior Registration is this Thursday. Questions? See your counselor.
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!
Wednesday:
One confirming argument (must contain a citation)
Thursday:
Senior Registration

8. Today’s class vocabulary log out?
Collect scored synthesis essays on memorials
Close Reading Practice
Groups of 4

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