Addiction Issues? Is your cell phone in your backpack?

1. Addiction Issues? Is your cell phone in your backpack?

2. Facts do matter—understand the point of credibility

3. Recognition, Happy Birthdays and Congratulations! • It’s Hannah’s birthday (Friday, 18) • It’s Maddy’s birthday (Wednesday, 23) • It’s Otis’s birthday (Wednesday, 23)

4. Recognition, Happy Birthdays and Congratulations! • Hannah’s birthday is tomorrow!

5. AP Language and CompositionIt’s Thursday, 17 May 2018 • Time will pass; will you? 8 school days remain in the spring semester. • Today’s Objectives: • Students will: • Discuss F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby in its entirety.

6. Housekeeping • NOTICE: From this point forward, if you turned in an assignment, and have a “0 marked incomplete” in infinite campus, it was not uploaded to tii as required. When you bring in a printed receipt, you will be credited for the assignment, with a 10% penalty off the assessed grade. • Keep abreast of the Daily Course Calendar. This is a fluid document… • Last updated May 10

7. Coming Due—do not squander time—that’s the stuff life’s made of! • Due Today: • The Great Gatsby, Chapters 7-9 —tii upload required • The Great Gatsby, vocabulary log, chapters 1-9 • You pick: ONE essay question • Rhetorical Analysis of an entire “scene” • An “argument” which agrees or disagrees with claims from an outside source/criticism. This option requires that an annotated essay be attached. • Due Thursday, 5/24 • Portfolio Archiving • We will turn in “Music in You” assignment • Annotated lyrics, written analysis, visual representation

8. Wrapping it up: • Be sure your grade is reconciled in IC • All late work must be turned in by Monday • Please return your books immediately • Upcoming: • Today: wrapping The Great Gatsby • Monday: test de-briefing and movie • Tuesday: movie • Wednesday: movie/Music in You • Thursday: Portfolios/Music in You

9. Today’s Class: Students will discuss F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby in its entirety. • Scoring • Why evaluate your own work? • Small Group Discussions • Quote Shares • Socratic Discussion—whole class • Let’s talk about themes

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12. 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.

13. AP one-word scoring descriptors for timed writing essays: Ineffective Essays A 4 is “inadequate” A 3 is “unsuccessful” A 2 is “confusing” A 1 is “ugh?” Effective and Adequate Essays • A 9 is “unique” • An 8 is “sophisticated” • A 7 is “effective” • A 6 is “adequate” • A 5 is “uneven”

14. The “checked practice” assignments I would rather reward you for effort than punish you with a grade for some assignments. We will do a number of “practice” assignments of varying levels of difficulty. I don’t always expect you to have the “right” answers; indeed, there may be many “right” answers as a matter of opinion. What I look for is thought and effort. I can tell by looking at your work approximately how much thought and time was put into the assignment.  Did you attempt to complete the assignment when you got to class, for example? This would definitely not demonstrate effort. If you would like to contest a grade, simply bring the assignment in to me, with proper reasons, and we’ll discuss it. • +: A range (90-100%): Excellence and Effort. Time, effort, and diligence are apparent. All the work is completed; full support is offered for all answers; examples are given when needed. (25 = 22.5-25) •  : B range (80-89%): Adequate work and effort. The work was completed, but more support and effort and development should be apparent. You understood the assignment, but might have done better. (25 = 20-22.5) • -: C range (70-79%): Average work and effort. An attempt was made to complete the assignment, but your understanding of it is not clear, effort may not be apparent and the work may be sloppy. (25 = 17.5-20) • U: D range (50-69%): unacceptable work. Your work is incomplete, rushed, or simply incorrect. This level or work in unacceptable for an AP-level class. (15)

16. 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.

17. Today’s Class Vocabulary log out? Objective: To review and begin to learn the basics of synthesis writing. • What is synthesis writing? • From a Greek root which means “to put together,” synthesis is the process of bringing together information from various sources, written or visual, to develop a position on a particular topic and form a new whole. • Explanatory Synthesis: brings together sources to illustrate a subject (encyclopedias, textbooks, brochures, museum guides, music performance notes, etc.) • Argumentative Synthesis aims to persuade, to convince readers of a claim. Some evidence (sources) is provided to support the claim, while other evidence (sources) may be used to represent views the writer rejects (commonly known as refutation).

18. Evaluation • The 9-point rubric • 9-point descriptors • The Anchor Papers—these are “samples”—responses vary • Camera Shots (these are worth 50 points) • Scoring…

19. 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