1. Congratulations!

2. AP Language and Composition Wednesday, 4 November 2015  Time will pass; will you? 28 school days remain in the fall semester.  Today’s Class:  Introducing Mark Twain and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

3. Housekeeping  Zero Hour: If you’re taking the ASVAB test tomorrow, you are not excused from zero hour  Please keep your grades monitored in IC, and alert me immediately to any discrepancies.  The Daily Course Calendar was last updated November 2— the entire Mark Twain/HF unit has been added  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 Tomorrow/Friday (Day 2 only):  All pre-reading materials: Mark Twain’s biographical information and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  Monday:  Annotated Bibs 8, 9 and 10  Tuesday:  Satire Projects due—presentations begin, and will be wrapped on Thursday/Friday  Wednesday:  No School: Veteran’s Day

5. Notes on pre-reading  Keep your vocabulary log on your desk today. You should find many words in the biographical reading—and the blog  DO NOT write the summary/opinion paragraph—we’ll be doing that in class on Thursday/Friday—please have the bullet notes from the essays, and the questions from the blog, completed (word-processed). Also, read the entire blog— there is quite a bit more important information beneath the questions.  An updated and correct version of the pre-reading directions have been uploaded on the class website.

6. Today’s Class  Introducing Mark Twain and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  Why are we doing this?  Preparing for discussion—notes are important, but only the beginning  Reading and note-taking  Biographical essays  You may use your cell phone to access and read the only the blog—do not abuse this privilege by using for another purpose

7. “Only a Nigger” by Mark Twain  Discuss in your groups:  Why does Twain use the words “negroes” and “negro” and consistently put the word “nigger” in quotation marks?  In this essay, written seven years before he began work on Huckleberry Finn, Twain clearly uses the word “nigger” to signify the racist dehumanization of African Americans by Southern whites. In “Only a Nigger,” he uses the words negroes and negro, and consistently puts “nigger” in quotes to indicate that it is the dehumanizing word used by the Southerners whose mob law he is criticizing in the essay.

8. 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?

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. Socrates  Father of Western philosophy and Mentor to Plato. Epistemology and logic.  Plato: 424-348 B.C.E. Plato:  Student of Socrates and founder of “The Academy” Philosophy, logic, ethics, rhetoric and mathematics.  Aristotle: 384-322 B.C.E. Aristotle  Student of Plato, and teacher to Alexander the Great.