1. Paz de Christo Food Kitchen
Thanks for giving 3 hours of your time to prepare and serve a meal to approximately 150 needy and homeless people last Friday:
Makenna Little
Ashley Dussalt
Ryan Silva
Jenna Glew
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

2. Congratulations!
Today’s Birthdays!
Emma Robson

3. AP Language and Composition Wednesday, 13 January 2016
Time will pass; will you? 79 school days remain in the spring semester.
Today’s Class:
Discussion: Why we’re lousy at science
Information: The new SAT
Taking it home: final presentation preparations

4. Housekeeping Review Dates: Make a choice
February 8 is the deadline for dual-credit tuition payment for this term.
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.

5. Hamilton AP Exam Registration
AP exam registration is open November 1 thru February 1
Register at
Students must register and pay by February 1. Students that register after February 1 will be charged a late fee of $10 per exam.
This registration link is posted on the class website, just under the Daily Course Calendar.

6. Coming Due—do not squander time—that’s the stuff life’s made of!
Tomorrow/Friday:
Presentations: Fast Food Nation
Summaries and notes will be handed in after your presentation— failure to upload the summary will be an automatic point deduction—a tii incidence over 20% will also result in a point deduction. No upload/high incidence:
0 = 4/0
1 = 5/2
3 = 2/0
4 = 1/0
5 = 0/2
Tuesday:
Vocabulary Log #9

7. Today’s Class Discussion: Why are we so stupid in science?
Why do we believe, not question?
The new SAT: What you should know
Today’s registration tip: Who takes AP scores for what classes?
Wrap-up: Final preparations for tomorrow’s presentation

8. Basic steps of the scientific method:
Ask a Question
Do Background Research
Construct a Hypothesis
Test Your Hypothesis by Doing an Experiment
Analyze Your Data and Draw a Conclusion
Communicate Your Results

9. Close Reading:
Close Reading: Defining an author’s purpose, and identifying and analyzing the techniques and strategies employed to achieve that purpose.
Vocab Log #9 out?
Term logs out?
18 minutes “Four fish, then.”
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

10. 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.”

11. Rhetoric—Whose idea was it?
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.