1. What should you be reading?

2. Facts do matter—understand the point of credibility

4. Recognition, Happy Birthdays and Congratulations!

5. Coming Due—do not squander time—that’s the stuff life’s made of!
No homework this week

6. AP Language and Composition Thursday, 18 May 2017
Time 8 school days remain in the spring semester.
Today’s Objectives:
Reading, analyzing and discussing Arthur Miller’s The Crucible
Acts III and IV

7. Housekeeping Book returns Collect optional syntax/vocab assignment
The Language of Composition
Any and all novels
Collect optional syntax/vocab assignment
Keep abreast of the Daily Course Calendar.
Last updated April 13

8. Today’s Class Miller’s The Crucible
The central idea in any piece of literature is always THEME, keep this in mind throughout the reading of the text.
Assessment
Taking Notes for the test—it’s open book/open notes
Reading: completion of Acts III and IV

9. 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?”

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

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. 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