1. Eco Fact of the Week
Solar technology is a rapidly growing field— the decrease in prices of solar panels coupled with the increase in their efficiency rate have made solar a particularly attractive source of energy. Additionally, solar technology is developing extremely innovate applications; for example, Solar Impulse, a project originating from Switzerland, has led to the development of a plane that runs completely on solar energy. The plane has achieved the longest solo- solar flight in recorded history, and has even flown overnight! Hamilton students could also support the solar movement by learning about solar energy and seeing if they can use it in their own homes.

2. Housekeeping Grades are about done—alert me to any discrepancies.
Archiving your work for the portfolio— it’s in green on the course calendar.
The Daily Course Calendar is regularly updated, and posted on the class website—last updated on 4/20.
Making up work? Need to see me? Please make an appointment.

3. Paz de Christo Food Kitchen
Can you give three hours of your time to prepare and serve a meal to approximately 150 needy and homeless people.
Thanks for volunteering this Friday, May 13.
First drawn:
Josh Portschi, period 3
Kripa Agarwal, period 4
Ashkita Vora, period 5
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

4. AP Language and Composition Thursday, 12 May 2016
Time will pass; will you? 8 school days remain in the spring semester.
Today’s Class:
Begin reading: Arthur Miller’s The Crucible

5. Congratulations!
Today is Valerie’s birthday!

6. Coming Due—do not squander time—that’s the stuff life’s made of!
Thursday, 5/12-Thursday, 5/19
Reading and Discussion: Arthur Miller’s The Crucible
Thursday, 5/19
Portfolio Updating—please have all materials gathered, organized, staples removed. I am allotting about 30 minutes for this task.

7. Today’s Class Arthur Miller’s The Crucible Act 1 Readers? (Act I only)
Take notes if you want—you can use them on the test.
You can check a book out at any time.

8. Close Reading:
Close Reading: Defining an author’s purpose, and identifying and analyzing the techniques and strategies employed to achieve and support that purpose.
NO talking—and, do you really need to go to the bathroom that badly?
Vocab Log #13 out?
Term logs out?
30 minutes, questions
7 minute group discussion. Circle two questions from each set to discuss with your group—these are the only four questions you can change, but only after discussion.
Score and turn in

9. You’re killing us… so says the college board…
Goals:
Create strong writers who will have the necessary skills to write effectively in their college courses and in their personal and professional lives
Foster reading “between the lines”—extracting the connotative meanings of words and the cultural, political, or historical contexts of various texts.
Encourage students to be informed citizens and consumers who understand the manipulation of a variety of media by advertisers, politicians, and institutions to impact them in their daily lives.
Course Outcomes:
To evaluate, practice, increase proficiency, and master at an individual rate your ability to be a creator of and an informed receiver of language and all forms of communication both verbal and non-verbal but with an emphasis on written language
To demonstrate sound logical thinking and critical judgment drawing on research, knowledge of the world, and personal experience
To develop to proficiency effectiveness of persuasive and argumentative writing and independent thought
To practice to proficiency rhetorical analysis of both fiction and non-fiction across time and culture, evaluate argument, and create an argument with sophistication and nuance
To master all elements of composition including content, focus, conventions, and style
To experience regularly and practice to proficiency a timed environment for both multiple choice and writing assessments

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.