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Birthdays!

Birthdays! . AP Language and Composition Monday, 26 October 2015. Time will pass; will you? 35 school days remain in the fall semester. Today’s Class: Reviewing Cumulative, Periodic and Inverted Sentences structures Silent Sustained Reading. Housekeeping.

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Birthdays!

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  1. Birthdays!

  2. AP Language and CompositionMonday, 26 October 2015 • Time will pass; will you? 35 school days remain in the fall semester. • Today’s Class: • Reviewing Cumulative, Periodic and Inverted Sentences structures • Silent Sustained Reading

  3. Housekeeping • Wednesday is a “study hall” (PSAT testing)—bring work, or better yet, reading. If you don’t, I will assign you reading. • Collect philosophy essay revisions • On top: Reflection • Revision • Score sheet • Original essay • Please keep your grades monitored in IC, and alert me immediately to any discrepancies. • The Daily Course Calendar was last updated on October 16 • Making up work? Need to see me? Please make an appointment.

  4. Coming Due—do not squander time—that’s the stuff life’s made of! • Due Monday: • Vocab Log #5 • If you’re smart, and you’re organized, then you’re working on your next set of bibs NOW, due November 9. I suggest a piece of visual rhetoric in this last set…

  5. Today’s Class: Grammar and Close Reading Practice • Grammar Lesson #4: Cumulative, Periodic and Inverted Sentences • Page 893, Exercises 1, 2 and 5. Review, score and turn in. • Assign Satire Project • SSR—please complete your reading card

  6. Close Reading • Defining an author’s purpose, and identifying and analyzing the techniques and strategies employed to achieve that purpose. • Vocab and term logs out? • New reading groups

  7. “Dear Grove Press” • 1. This letter is six paragraphs. What would you say is the discrete point of each paragraph? Write a brief descriptive phrase for each, labeling them one through six. • 2. When Herbert says “We believe you will agree” ‘at the start of the third paragraph, how do you read his tone? What do you think he is really saying there? • 3. How persuasive do you find this letter? What do you think is Herbert’s approach? How is he trying to persuade Gove? • 4. What is the strongest part of Herbert’s argument? What is the weakest? • What would you say is the tone of this letter?

  8. Dear Coca-Cola

  9. What is 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.”

  10. Rhetoric—Whose idea was it? 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.

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