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What should you be reading?
Facts do matter—understand the point of
credibility
Recognition, Happy Birthdays
and Congratulations!
• Congratulations to Kira!
• Tennis Tournament on Tuesday—
• Singles #1 Kira Dohse won 8-5
• Doubles#1 Kira Dohse and Mallory Carroll won 8-4
• Break Birthdays
• Dalinda Uselton: March 17
• Heather Gallegos: March 19
AP Language and Composition
Thursday, 9 March 2017
• Time will pass; will
you? 44 school days
remain in the spring
semester.
• Today’s Objectives:
• To write and assess
a rhetorical analysis
Housekeeping
• The Great Gatsby
• Does everyone have a book?
• A quick read over break?—great idea. No, it will not hurt to
read it twice.
•Keep abreast of the Daily Course Calendar.
• Last updated Yesterday
•Writing Contests are now posted on the class website—
you can earn optional credit for these. Updated
February 6
Today’s class: Writing a rhetorical
analysis
vocabulary log out?
• 9 to a 9: Essay #5/Rhetorical Analysis
• Writing: Abigail Adams to her son John Adams
• We are writing BLIND—ID’s only on these papers/cover sheets
• 40 minutes
• Break
• Reflection/Scoring
• Anchor Reviews
• Pair up. Read your essay and exchange with your partner. The two
of you decide on a score for each of the essays. Then, in the space
provided on the score sheet, address what you feel are both the
strong, and weak points in the essay.
• Turn them in to me as soon as you are finished.
Coming Due—do not squander time—that’s
the stuff life’s made of!
•Collect Work
1. Research paper, w/rubric stapled to the back
2. Full draft workshop, in this order
•Cover/Score Sheet (your score should be tallied)
•Reflection
•Outline/Organization Practice sheet
•A draft which demonstrates revision work
3. Chavez essay: must be scored for credit
• Cover sheet/reflection/essay
•Are you working on those vocabulary sentences
like I advised?
AP one-word scoring descriptors
for timed writing essays:
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”
Evaluation
• The 9-point rubric
• 9-point descriptors
• The Anchor Papers—these are “samples”—
responses vary
• Camera Shots (these are worth 50 points)
• Scoring…
Rhetoric
•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.”
•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.
Whose idea was this rhetoric thing?
• Socrates: 469-399 B.C.E.
• Father of Western philosophy and Mentor to Plato.
Epistemology and logic.
• Plato: 424-348 B.C.E.
• 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.
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