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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 Time will pass; will you? 56 school days remain in the spring semester. Today’s Objectives: Writing a conclusion Sub plans—tomorrow and Thursday Study guide for Thursday’s writing—how to use it SSR to fill time… FREE TUTORING NOW AVAILABLE! Sign up with me. Keep abreast of the Daily Course Calendar. Last updated February 15 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! HOUSEKEEPING COMING DUE—DO NOT SQUANDER TIME—THAT’S THE STUFF LIFE’S MADE OF! Monday: Rhetorical Analysis workshop Bring your MLK assignment back to class! Thursday’s timed writing Tuesday, 2/28: Full Draft—Research paper 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 Writing Conclusions What do you want your reader to remember? What was your most important point? How did you use “style” to conclude? Quick Read-around Camera shots? Collect Score sheets: refutations and conclusions SSR TODAY’S CLASS VOCABULARY LOG OUT? EFFECTIVE AND ADEQUATE ESSAYS INEFFECTIVE ESSAYS A 9 is “unique” A 4 is “inadequate” An 8 is “sophisticated” A 3 is “unsuccessful” A 7 is “effective” A 2 is “confusing” A 6 is “adequate” A 1 is “ugh?” A 5 is “uneven” AP ONE-WORD SCORING DESCRIPTORS FOR TIMED WRITING ESSAYS: The 9-point rubric 9-point descriptors The Anchor Papers—these are “samples”— responses vary Camera Shots (these are worth 50 points) Scoring… EVALUATION Rhetoric: Close Reading: 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: 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? Socrates: 469-399 B.C.E. Plato: 424-348 B.C.E. 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. Student of Plato, and teacher to Alexander the Great. 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 WHY GOALS AND OBJECTIVES?