1. What should you be reading?

2. Facts do matter—understand the point of credibility

3. Recognition, Happy Birthdays and Congratulations!

4. AP Language and Composition Monday, 31 July 2017
Time will pass; will you? 87 school days remain in the fall semester.
Today’s Objective:
Students will learn and practice the close reading technique SWBS.

5. Housekeeping Dual-credit registration
Do you need a student password (this is also your IC password)? See Ms. Lytle in D-100.
Keep abreast of the Daily Course Calendar.
Last updated July 24

6. Coming Due—do not squander time—that’s the stuff life’s made of!
Collect
Chapter 1 notes, The Language of Composition
Turnitin registration (checked on line)
Ethics/Syllabus contracts
Thursday, 8/3
Narrative essay draft
Thank You for Arguing—summer reading
Early-in/5% x/c: This Thursday, August 3
Due/full credit: August 10
Late/last day for credit/25% penalty: August 17

7. Today’s Class: Close reading Objective: Students will learn and practice the close reading technique SWBS.
The Big Questions:
What surprised me?
What did the author assume I knew?
What challenged, or confirmed, what I already knew?
Signposts:
Contrast/Contradictions
Extreme or Absolute Language
Numbers and Stats
Quoted words
Word gaps/context clues
SWBS
Somebody… wanted… but… so…

9. Rhetoric Rhetoric: Close Reading: Rhetorical Analysis:
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.

10. Today’s Class Vocabulary log out
Today’s Class Vocabulary log out? Objective: To review and begin to learn the basics of rhetorical theory.
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).

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

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

13. Whose idea was this rhetoric thing?
Socrates: B.C.E.
Father of Western philosophy and Mentor to Plato. Epistemology and logic.
Plato: B.C.E.
Student of Socrates and founder of “The Academy” Philosophy, logic, ethics, rhetoric and mathematics.
Aristotle: B.C.E.
Student of Plato, and teacher to Alexander the Great.

14. 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