1. Paz de Christo Food Kitchen I slept and dreamed that life was joy. I awoke and found that life was but service. I served and discovered that service was joy.  Rabindranath Tagore  Can you give three hours of your time to prepare and serve a meal to approximately 150 needy and homeless people next Friday, Feb. 12?

2. Congratulations!  Happy Birthday!  Megan Dominguez

3. AP Language and Composition Thursday, 28 January 2016  Time will pass; will you? 69 school days remain in the spring semester.  Today’s Class:  Writing a synthesis essay

4. ECO Fact of the Week In order to meet America’s demand for bottled water, more than 17 million barrels of oil are used annually, which is enough to fuel 1.3 million cars for one year (that figure does not even include the oil used for transporting the bottles). The energy the U.S. wastes using bottled water is enough to power 190,000 homes. Americans used about 50 billion plastic water bottles last year. However, the U.S.’s recycling rate for plastic is only 23 percent, which means 38 billion water bottles—more than $1 billion worth of plastic—are wasted per year. Hamilton students can help by replacing plastic water bottles with reusable bottles. The average American uses 167 plastic bottles in one year, so with a student population of around 4,000, Hamilton High School could save around 668,000 plastic bottles by switching to reusable bottles. Students for Sustainable Schools will be selling steel water bottles for $7.50 during conference and lunches in the upcoming weeks, and any funds gained from the steel bottles will be directed toward installing water bottle fillers in Hamilton’s drinking fountains! Keep an eye out for them!

5. Housekeeping  Is your grade correct? Please keep your grades monitored in IC, and alert me immediately to any discrepancies.  Your FFN project grade  The Daily Course Calendar for this term has been posted on the class website  Writing contests are now posted on the class website; optional credit is available for submissions—see me for details.  Making up work? Need to see me? Please make an appointment.

6. Hamilton AP Exam Registration  Who’s registered?  This registration link is posted on the class website, just under the Daily Course Calendar.

7. Coming Due—do not squander time— that’s the stuff life’s made of!  Monday:  Vocab log #10; Vocab Sentence Set #4: All ten sentences must contain an appositive. They should not all look the same. Italicize the appositive modifier. Reference pg. 167 in your text.  Are you working on your research paper draft?

8. Today’s Class  Synthesis Writing: Is college worth it?  Review prompt  Reading the sources (20 min)  Writing the essay (45 min)  Break  Review and Critique  Narration vs. Source reliance—highlighting  Monday  Review anchors and narratives  Camera (2 essays)  Reflections due Thursday/Friday

9. Assessing your work…  45-50  I got this.  40-44  I got most of this.  35-39  I need to work on this.  Deduct 5 points if your work is not word- processed.

10. Close Reading:  Close Reading: Defining an author’s purpose, and identifying and analyzing the techniques and strategies employed to achieve that purpose.  Vocab Log #9 out?  Term logs out?  18 minutes “Four fish, then.”  5 minute group discussion. Circle two questions to discuss with your group—these are the only two questions you can change, but only after discussion.  Score and turn in

11. What is rhetoric?  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.”

12. Rhetoric—Whose idea was it?  Socrates: 469-399 B.C.E. Socrates  Father of Western philosophy and Mentor to Plato. Epistemology and logic.  Plato: 424-348 B.C.E. Plato:  Student of Socrates and founder of “The Academy” Philosophy, logic, ethics, rhetoric and mathematics.  Aristotle: 384-322 B.C.E. Aristotle  Student of Plato, and teacher to Alexander the Great.