1. Housekeeping  Is your grade correct? Please keep your grades monitored in IC, and alert me immediately to any discrepancies.  The Daily Course Calendar for this term has been posted on the class website  Writing contests are now posted on the class website; optional credit is available for submissions—see me for details.  Making up work? Need to see me? Please make an appointment.

2. Paz de Christo Food Kitchen I slept and dreamed that life was joy. I awoke and found that life was but service. I served and discovered that service was joy.  Rabindranath Tagore  Take 3 hours of your time to prepare and serve a meal to approximately 150 needy and homeless people. This Friday, from 4 to 7.

3. Congratulations!  Break Birthdays:  Connor Mingle, Dec. 20

4. AP Language and Composition Tuesday, 5 January 2016  Time will pass; will you? 85 school days remain in the spring semester.  Today’s Class:  Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back.

5. Coming Due—do not squander time— that’s the stuff life’s made of!  Monday:  Grammar Lesson #6: Appositives  Tuesday:  Assigned chapter reading/chapter summary: Fast Food Nation —tii upload required  Thursday/Friday:  Group Presentations: Fast Food Nation  Tuesday, 1/19  Vocabulary Log #9 (on your desk—think FFN)

6. Today’s Class  The new seating chart—why?  Senior Registration  What is your obsession? (12 min)obsession  Reviewing the spring semester  Course Calendar  Study Tips—Are you multi-tasking? Really? (7 min)multi-tasking  Applying to College  A quick look at the Common App  Letter of Recommendation? Who to ask, and why.  School?  Community?  Character?

7. Today’s Class  Close Reading: Defining an author’s purpose, and identifying and analyzing the techniques and strategies employed to achieve that purpose.  Vocab Log #8 out?  Term logs out?  15 minutes “It is the fate of actors…”  5 minute group discussion. Circle two questions to discuss with your group—these are the only two questions you can change, but only after discussion.  Score and turn in

8. 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.”

9. 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.