1. 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 . The next date is May 13.
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. Eco Fact of the Week
Reusable water bottles are an environmentally efficient solution to plastic waste. Currently, Americans use 50 billion water bottles each year. Additionally, they spend about $5 a week on bottled water; just by switching to a reusable water bottle, individuals could save over $260 every year. Hamilton students should try to limit their usage of plastic water bottles by bringing a water bottle from home or using an SSS steel water bottle!

3. AP Language and Composition Wednesday, 27 April 2016
Time will pass; will you? 19 school days remain in the spring semester.
Today’s Class:
Great Gatsby— chapters 7-9

4. Congratulations!
To Preslie, Hamilton’s 11th grade Student of the Month for April

5. Housekeeping
Book check—if you forgot it today, you forfeit your 10 points.
Due to a scheduling error, the AP Review has been re- scheduled for this Saturday, April 30—9:00 a.m. in the cafeteria
Please keep your grades monitored in IC, and alert me immediately 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.

6. Coming Due—do not squander time—that’s the stuff life’s made of!
Blocks—Tomorrow/Friday:
9 to a 9: Argument—the last essay in the unit. Please bring to class the “polite speech” and “creativity” essays—you will need them.

7. Today’s Class The Great Gatsby, Chapters 7-9
Class discussion?
The definitive quote
Class discussion, w/camera work?
Camera Work?
Group Work?
Turn in chapter work and vocab logs
Check in books

8. The Great Gatsby What’s this book about (topics)? Wealth Love Despair
The American Dream
Appearances vs. Reality
Honesty and Deceit
Loneliness
Consumerism and Capitalism
What is Fitzgerald saying about these topics (theme)?

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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.”

12. 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.