Transcript AP Language and Composition Tuesday, 8 September 2015

Recognition
 Happy
Niko
Birthday!
Garcia
Audrey Galloway
AP Language and Composition
Tuesday, 8 September 2015
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Time will pass; will you?
57 school days remain
in the fall semester.
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Today’s Class:
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Grammar Focus:
active verb use
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Close Reading
Practice
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“Transcendentalism is more
an outlook or frame of mind
than an actual philosophy”
Housekeeping and Recognition
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The daily Power Points are now available on the class website,
just beneath the course calendar.
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Making up work? Need to see me? I am available today
and tomorrow after school.
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Please keep your grades monitored in IC, and alert me
immediately to any discrepancies.
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The Daily Course Calendar was last updated on September 4
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Ongoing Reading Logs—what are you reading, and where
are you finding it?
Coming Due—do not squander time—
that’s the stuff life’s made of!
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Be prepared for research during blocks this week.
Continue working on annotated bibs—next set is
due Th/Fr, 9/17-18.
Philosophy Essay Prompt
(drafts due 9/22):
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Pick one idea from anything we have read in this unit,
and write an essay which explains what that idea means
to you. You must directly quote at least one piece of
writing.
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Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave”
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Roy Baumeister’s “Do You Really Have Free Will?”
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Bryant’s “Thanatopsis”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Self-Reliance,” or related essays
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“Nature”
Henry David Thoreau—from Walden
Discussion: The essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Active Verbs, page 498
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Review, score and turn in Lesson 2, page
Close Reading: “Friends and fellow citizens:”
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Questions 13-23—12 minutes
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Complete ALL questions—guess if needed
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Circle questions two for change
Group Review: 5 minutes
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Scoring
Whorton’s Aphorisms:
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from “Nature”
 “I
am not solitary while I read and write, though
nobody is with me.”
 “Most
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persons do not see the sun.”
from “Self-Reliance”
 “Trust
thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron
string.”
 “Whoso
would be a man must be a
nonconformist.”
Supplemental Reading:
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Read your assigned essay, and answer these questions. Be
prepared to summarize, and share your thoughts with the
class:
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1. “Remember the Six Billion”
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2. “Are We Raising a Generation of Helpless Kids?”
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Identify Shermer’s use(s) of sarcasm, and explain WHY he chooses
to use it.
Pick ONE of the four claims under “Where did we go wrong?” with
which your either agree or disagree. Explain, citing evidence.
3. “’Selfie’-reliance: The word of the year is the story of our
individualism”
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Psychologist Sarah J. Gervais writes in Psychology Today that “such
portraiture [selfies] on social media is as good for selfempowerment as it is for self-objectificaiton.” Agree or disagree?
Why?
Close Reading
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Defining an author’s purpose, and identifying and
analyzing the techniques and strategies employed
to achieve that purpose.
What is rhetoric?
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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.”
Rhetoric—Whose idea was it?
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Socrates: 469-399 B.C.E.
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Plato: 424-348 B.C.E.
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Father of Western philosophy and Mentor to Plato.
Epistemology and logic.
Student of Socrates and founder of “The Academy” Philosophy,
logic, ethics, rhetoric and mathematics.
Aristotle: 384-322 B.C.E.
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Student of Plato, and teacher to Alexander the Great.