Download ap language and composition tuesday, 21 february 2017

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…
WHAT SHOULD YOU BE READING?
FACTS DO MATTER—UNDERSTAND THE
POINT OF CREDIBILITY
RECOGNITION, HAPPY BIRTHDAYS
AND CONGRATULATIONS!
AP LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION
TUESDAY, 21 FEBRUARY 2017
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Time will pass; will you? 56
school days remain in the
spring semester.
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Today’s Objectives:
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Writing a conclusion
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Sub plans—tomorrow and Thursday
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Study guide for Thursday’s writing—how to use it
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SSR to fill time…
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Keep abreast of the Daily Course Calendar.
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Last updated February 15
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Writing Contests are now posted on the class website—you can
earn optional credit for these. Updated February 6
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Bringing your book to class—it’s on the assignment calendar,
and you are responsible for bringing it!
HOUSEKEEPING
COMING DUE—DO NOT SQUANDER
TIME—THAT’S THE STUFF LIFE’S MADE OF!
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Monday:
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Rhetorical Analysis workshop
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Bring your MLK assignment back to class!
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Thursday’s timed writing
Tuesday, 2/28:
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Full Draft—Research paper
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Research papers are due March 9. No late papers will be
accepted. Tii upload is required.
Are you working on those vocabulary sentences like I
advised?
Workshop/Instruction
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Writing Conclusions
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What do you want your reader to remember?
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What was your most important point?
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How did you use “style” to conclude?
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Quick Read-around
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Camera shots?
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Collect Score sheets: refutations and conclusions
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SSR
TODAY’S CLASS
VOCABULARY LOG OUT?
EFFECTIVE AND
ADEQUATE ESSAYS
INEFFECTIVE ESSAYS
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A 9 is “unique”
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A 4 is “inadequate”
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An 8 is “sophisticated”
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A 3 is “unsuccessful”
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A 7 is “effective”
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A 2 is “confusing”
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A 6 is “adequate”
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A 1 is “ugh?”
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A 5 is “uneven”
AP ONE-WORD SCORING
DESCRIPTORS FOR TIMED WRITING
ESSAYS:
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The 9-point rubric
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9-point descriptors
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The Anchor Papers—these are “samples”—
responses vary
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Camera Shots (these are worth 50 points)
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Scoring…
EVALUATION
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Rhetoric:
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Close Reading:
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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.”
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:
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Defining an author’s purpose, then identifying and analyzing the
techniques and strategies employed to achieve that purpose.
RHETORIC
WHOSE IDEA WAS THIS RHETORIC
THING?
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Socrates: 469-399 B.C.E.
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Plato: 424-348 B.C.E.
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Father of Western philosophy and Mentor to Plato.
Epistemology and logic.
Student of Socrates and founder of “The Academy”
Philosophy, logic, ethics, rhetoric and mathematics.
Aristotle: 384-322 B.C.E.
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Student of Plato, and teacher to Alexander the
Great.
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Course Goal—broad, long-term
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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
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To understand and evaluate the finer elements
argument
WHY GOALS AND OBJECTIVES?