Paz de Christo Food
Kitchen
I slept and dreamed that
life was joy.
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Can you give three
hours of your time to
prepare and serve a
meal to approximately
150 needy and homeless
people ?
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Thank you for your kind
hearts last Friday:
I awoke and found that life
was but service.
I served and discovered
that service was joy.
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Rabindranath Tagore
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Momen—Period 0
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Nazmina—Period 1
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Zach—Period 3
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Surabhi—Period 5
AP Language and Composition
Thursday, 18 February 2016
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Time will pass; will you?
55 school days remain
in the spring semester.
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Today’s Class:
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Approaching the
rhetorical analysis
essay
Congratulations!
I just received notification that Justin Zhu has been
published in Creative Communication’s anthology
Celebrating What Is Important to Me. His essay was
chosen as one of the top 10 of several thousand
entries. Congratulations to not just a gifted writer, but a
gifted thinker.
Housekeeping
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From Mrs. Lytle in the Career Center:
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I have only received three applications for the World Affairs Seminar.
This is after giving out at least 80 applications. I will extend this until the
end of tomorrow if you could announce that….they wanted to
interview about 5 students.
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Is your grade correct? Please keep your grades monitored in IC,
and alert me immediately to any discrepancies.
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The Daily Course Calendar is regularly updated, and posted on
the class website
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Writing contests are now posted on the class website; optional
credit is available for submissions—see me for details.
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Making up work? Need to see me? Please make an appointment.
Coming Due—do not squander time—
that’s the stuff life’s made of!
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Sign-ups are now available for research paper
advice and tutoring
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DO NOT make an appointment, and not keep it
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YOU MUST come prepared with specific questions
Are you working on your research paper draft?
Due Monday.
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Basic Content: Page 13, “The Classical Model”
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Likely 10-15 paragraphs—all elements of the model are required
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Using the rubric as a guide
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“Chunk” the work—we’re on “homework light”
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The draft must be word-processed and uploaded to tii on 2/22
for credit. 100 points. NO LATE WORK will be accepted.
Today’s Class: The Rhetorical Analysis essay
Close Reading:
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Close Reading: Defining an author’s purpose, and identifying
and analyzing the techniques and strategies employed to
achieve and support that purpose.
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NO talking—and, do you really need to go to the bathroom that
badly?
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Vocab Log #12 out?
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Term logs out?
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30 minutes, questions 29-54: passages “Oddly enough…” and “In
the English language”
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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
You’re killing us… so says the
college board…
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Goals:
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Create strong writers who will have the necessary skills to write effectively in their college courses and
in their personal and professional lives
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Foster reading “between the lines”—extracting the connotative meanings of words and the cultural,
political, or historical contexts of various texts.
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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.
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Course Outcomes:
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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
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To demonstrate sound logical thinking and critical judgment drawing on research, knowledge of the
world, and personal experience
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To develop to proficiency effectiveness of persuasive and argumentative writing and independent
thought
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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
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To master all elements of composition including content, focus, conventions, and style
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To experience regularly and practice to proficiency a timed environment for both multiple choice
and writing assessments
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.