1. Birthdays!  Janelle Lloyd’s was yesterday!  Caitlyn Racz’s is Saturday!  Josh Portschi’s was yesterday!  Andrew Munguia’s is today!

2. AP Language and Composition Thursday, 29 October 2015  Time will pass; will you? 32 school days remain in the fall semester.  Today’s Class:  Analyzing Satire

3. Housekeeping  Please keep your grades monitored in IC, and alert me immediately to any discrepancies.  The Daily Course Calendar was last updated on October 27  Making up work? Need to see me? Please make an appointment.

4. Coming Due—do not squander time— that’s the stuff life’s made of!  Due Monday:  Vocab Log #5  November 9: If you’re smart, and you’re organized, then you’re working on your next set of bibs NOW.  November 10: Are you thinking about that satire project? See me if you have questions.

5. Today’s Class: Analyzing Satire  From The Onion  Read, discuss, annotate (20 minutes, on your own, or in your group)  Write (40 minutes)  Share and score

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?  New reading groups

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: 469-399 B.C.E. Socrates  Father of Western philosophy and Mentor to Plato. Epistemology and logic.  Plato: 424-348 B.C.E. Plato:  Student of Socrates and founder of “The Academy” Philosophy, logic, ethics, rhetoric and mathematics.  Aristotle: 384-322 B.C.E. Aristotle  Student of Plato, and teacher to Alexander the Great.