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Updated…. Addiction Issues? Is your cell phone in your backpack?. Facts do matter—understand the point of credibility. Recognition, Happy Birthdays and Congratulations! . Connor’s birthday was yesterday!. AP Language and Composition It’s Tuesday, 30 January 2018.

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  1. Updated…

  2. Addiction Issues? Is your cell phone in your backpack?

  3. Facts do matter—understand the point of credibility

  4. Recognition, Happy Birthdays and Congratulations! • Connor’s birthday was yesterday!

  5. AP Language and CompositionIt’s Tuesday, 30 January 2018 • Time will pass; will you? 72 school days remain in the spring semester. • Today’s Objectives: • Students will: • Participate in a writing workshop on confirming arguments, with a goal toward revision

  6. Recognition, Happy Birthdays and Congratulations! • This past weekend, the Hamilton Speech and Debate team competed against 55 other schools.  We placed fourth overall with various individual wins.  If you see any of the following students, please congratulate them on their success: • Ria Manthkar - tied for 1st place novice Lincoln-Douglas debate • Sajni Patel - tied for 1st place novice Lincoln-Douglas debate • Ruby Gao and Ria Bhatti - 1st place in novice policy debate • SazmaSarwar and Yasmine Muraweh - 3rd place in novice public forum debate • Daniel Shih and Alek Kemeny - 3rd place in varsity public forum debate • Ishaan Bakhle - 5th place in extemporaneous speech.   • Ishaan Bakhle  earned a bid to the University of Kentucky's Tournament of Champions competition.   

  7. Recognition, Happy Birthdays and Congratulations! • Congratulations to the following students for making the cut for next year’s WTP Team! If it’s any consolation, more people did not make the cut, than made it… • Period 0 • Taylor Garcia • Ryan Gentry • Taylor Smith • HarshaLakamsani • Abby Thorton • Chae Lin Jung • Period 1 • Cora Baron • Period 3 • Aditi Tata • AnkitaPuri • Aaron Gonzalez

  8. Housekeeping • AP exam registration deadline is this Thursday, 2/1; the link to register is on the class website. Late registration ends 2/15 ($10 penalty). Updated (yesterday, at noon). • Competitive Submissions/Active Writing contests (posted on the class website): 3 • You may earn a one-time, 50-point optional assessment credit for submitting. • Keep abreast of the Daily Course Calendar. This is a fluid document… • Last updated Jan. 25

  9. Coming Due—do not squander time—that’s the stuff life’s made of! • Due Monday • Vocab Log #7 (20 points instruction/practice) • Due Thursday, 2/8 • Scoring and Reflection (50 points instruction/practice) • Synthesis essay #1

  10. Today’s Class: Students will participate in a writing workshop on confirming arguments, with a goal toward revision • Writing Workshop • Confirming Arguments • Identifying essential elements

  11. Research and Credibility—where are the facts? • Class Website • Reviewing CARS—your “bible” for research • The CARS Checklist for Research (Credibility, Accuracy, Reasonableness, Support) • Be SAFE when you research—look for Statistics, Anecdotes, Facts and Expert Opinions • Check your Works Cited entries at OWL—the On-line Writing Lab at Purdue

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

  13. AP one-word scoring descriptors for timed writing essays: Ineffective Essays A 4 is “inadequate” A 3 is “unsuccessful” A 2 is “confusing” A 1 is “ugh?” Effective and Adequate Essays • A 9 is “unique” • An 8 is “sophisticated” • A 7 is “effective” • A 6 is “adequate” • A 5 is “uneven”

  14. The “checked practice” assignments I would rather reward you for effort than punish you with a grade for some assignments. We will do a number of “practice” assignments of varying levels of difficulty. I don’t always expect you to have the “right” answers; indeed, there may be many “right” answers as a matter of opinion. What I look for is thought and effort. I can tell by looking at your work approximately how much thought and time was put into the assignment.  Did you attempt to complete the assignment when you got to class, for example? This would definitely not demonstrate effort. If you would like to contest a grade, simply bring the assignment in to me, with proper reasons, and we’ll discuss it. • +: A range (90-100%): Excellence and Effort. Time, effort, and diligence are apparent. All the work is completed; full support is offered for all answers; examples are given when needed. (25 = 22.5-25) •  : B range (80-89%): Adequate work and effort. The work was completed, but more support and effort and development should be apparent. You understood the assignment, but might have done better. (25 = 20-22.5) • -: C range (70-79%): Average work and effort. An attempt was made to complete the assignment, but your understanding of it is not clear, effort may not be apparent and the work may be sloppy. (25 = 17.5-20) • U: D range (50-69%): unacceptable work. Your work is incomplete, rushed, or simply incorrect. This level or work in unacceptable for an AP-level class. (15)

  15. Each of these assignments are 25 point assessments • 23-25, A-range, 90-100%: Excellent. Time, effort, diligence and understanding are apparent. All the work is completed; full support is offered for all answers; examples are given when needed. • 20-22, B-range, 80-89%: Adequate work and effort. The work was completed, but more detail and development are needed. It’s apparent you understood the assignment, but more effort might have been put into it. • 18-19, C-range, 70-79%: Average work and effort. An attempt was made to complete the assignment, but your understanding of it is not entirely clear, and full effort may not be apparent.

  16. Rhetoric • 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.” • 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.

  17. Today’s Class Vocabulary log out? Objective: To review and begin to learn the basics of synthesis writing. • What is synthesis writing? • From a Greek root which means “to put together,” synthesis is the process of bringing together information from various sources, written or visual, to develop a position on a particular topic and form a new whole. • Explanatory Synthesis: brings together sources to illustrate a subject (encyclopedias, textbooks, brochures, museum guides, music performance notes, etc.) • Argumentative Synthesis aims to persuade, to convince readers of a claim. Some evidence (sources) is provided to support the claim, while other evidence (sources) may be used to represent views the writer rejects (commonly known as refutation).

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

  19. 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

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