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What should you be reading?

Discover the importance of credibility and the role of facts in making informed decisions. Learn about municipal solid waste, an honor music festival, and auditions for the United States Army All-American Marching Band.

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What should you be reading?

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  1. What should you be reading?

  2. Facts do matter—understand the point of credibility

  3. In the United States, more than 40 percent of municipal solid waste is paper -- about 71.8 tons a year. ECOFACT Students for a Sustainable School

  4. Elissa Travis, Kenzie Murphy, and Rose Wodarcyk participated in the AMEA All-State Honor Music Festival this weekend! It is an honor to be one of the top musicians in the state, and these girls have been selected to be in the festival since their freshman year, which is an even bigger achievement! The following juniors have received nominations on behalf of Ms. Trent to audition for the United States Army All-American Marching Band: Sarah Alwin Luke Barnes Rachel Fullerton Sara Goldsobel Nevin Martinez Kara McClendon Kenzie Murphy Elissa Travis Recognition, Happy Birthdays and Congratulations!

  5. AP Language and CompositionMonday, 10 April 2017 • Time will pass; will you? 33 school days remain in the spring semester. • Today’s Objectives: • Using short, simple sentences and fragments for effect.

  6. Housekeeping • This Week’s Schedule: Today, April 10 – Traditional Day Tomorrow, April 11th, AIMS Science – EARLY RELEASE Zero hour – 6:25 – 7:20 1st period – 7:25 – 7:55 (30 min.) 2nd period – 8:00– 8:30 (30 min.) 3rd period – 8:35 – 9:05 (30 min.) 4th period – 9:10 – 9:40 (30 min.) 5th period – 9:45 – 10:15 (30 min.) 6th period – 10:20 – 10:50 (30 min.) No 7th period • Wednesday: Blocks, Day 1 • Thursday: Blocks, Day 2 • Friday: NO SCHOOL/”Spring Holiday” • Keep abreast of the Daily Course Calendar. • Last updated April 5 • Tomorrow: • Zero hour—what do you want to do? Video or ACT registration? • Release students not testing at 10:50 a.m. • Lunch 11:00-11:30 • AIMS Science Test 11:35-2:14 • ACT Testing Locations: • Period 0: Bateson/E-208 • Period 1: Pezzorello/E-209 • Period 3: Mendoza/E-219

  7. Coming Due—do not squander time—that’s the stuff life’s made of! • Collect: • Vocab log #10 (are you working on those sentences?) • Rhetorical Analysis Assessment —tii upload required • Tomorrow: • Grammar Lesson #10 (completed in Monday’s class) • Wednesday: • ACT test registration packets (10-point completion) • The Great Gatsby, chapters 1-3 —tii upload required

  8. Today/Tomorrowvocabulary log out? • Grammar Lesson #10: Short Simple Sentences and Fragments • Page 252 • Read, and take short notes, pages 252-254 (these notes should be word-processed, and included with the work below. • Complete exercises 1 and 2 OR exercise 3. • This work is due tomorrow, word-processed. • You may work alone, or with a partner on this assignment. • When you are finished, you are expected to read—The Great Gatsby, or begin filling out the ACT demographic information, which we will continue to work on tomorrow—this is due Thursday.

  9. 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”

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

  11. 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.

  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. 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

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