1. Recognition

2. AP Language and Composition Thursday, 24 September 2015
Time will pass; will you? 45 school days remain in the fall semester.
Today’s Class:
An introduction to satire
Today’s Pun
Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

3. Housekeeping
Confirming: Thanks for volunteering at Paz de Christo on October 9:
Esha Bhatti, Period 0
Jaggird Iturbe, Period 1
Dhruv Madhav, Period 3
Milla Latham, Period 4
Daisy Figueroa/Maria Marco, Period 5
Please keep your grades monitored in IC, and alert me immediately to any discrepancies.
The Daily Course Calendar was last updated on September 21
Making up work? Need to see me? This week:
Today and Tomorrow, 2:30-3:30
The daily Power Points are now available on the class website, just beneath the course calendar.
Ongoing Reading Logs—what are you reading, and where are you finding it?

4. Coming Due—do not squander time—that’s the stuff life’s made of!
Due Monday, October 19:
Vocabulary Log #4; Vocabulary Sentence Set #2 –tii upload required
Annotated bibs # 5, 6 and 7 –tii upload required

5. Today’s Class Finish reviewing handout Examples of Satire:
Charlie Chaplin and The Great Dictator
How it speaks to contemporary culture
The rank game: How it’s played
How it’s satirized
Yes, my very own pedantic style has been satirized
Education: one of today’s most popular satirist takes a look at going back to school, as an adult, in a foreign country
David Sedaris, from Me Talk Pretty One Day
Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary
What did you bring in?

6. Close Reading
Defining an author’s purpose, and identifying and analyzing the techniques and strategies employed to achieve that purpose.
Vocab and term logs out?

7. 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.”

8. 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.