Today ’ s Agenda and Objective

1. Today’s Agenda and Objective • Review school rules and procedures and review the syllabus and parent letter • Define rhetoric • Introduction to Paideia Seminar: “Ain’t I A Woman?” • Assign homework: Write a 5-paragraph letter to yourself By the end of class today, we will define rhetoric and understand the expectations for the course.

2. Vision for our School: Defenders . . . Believe and Achieve Strive and Excel Have Honor and Integrity Serve and Contribute

3. Defender Top 5 • Turn in high-quality work to become college and/or career ready. • Use school-appropriate language, tone, and voice levels. • Be in class or with a hall pass. • Follow all adult directions. • Treat all people with respect and compassion.

4. B Day Schedule to Teach Behavior Expectations A Day  B1: Guidelines for Success- explaining meaning and providing example of each Emergency Procedures Dismissal Procedures Teacher Discretion (syllabus, class rules, etc.) B2: Media Center Expectations Tardy Procedures Cell Phone Policy Acting Out Defender Top 5 Teacher Discretion (syllabus, class rules, etc.) B3: Cafeteria Procedures and Discussion Hallway Procedures Teacher Discretion (syllabus, class rules, etc.) B4: Arrival Procedures Dress Code Guidelines Guidelines for Success Matrix Teacher Discretion (syllabus, class rules, etc.) Homeroom: Schedules, Expectation books, Zones for Lunch A1: Maps, Schedules, Student Code of Conduct Read Guidelines for Success Defender Top 5 Student Handbook- Write In Top 5 Arrival Procedures Tardy Procedures Teacher Discretion (syllabus, class rules, etc.) A2: Dress Code Guidelines Dress Code Scavenger Hunt Hallway Procedures Cafeteria Procedures Teacher Discretion (syllabus, class rules, etc.) A3: Defender Top 5 Discussion Cell Phone Policy Discussion Media Center Expectations Teacher Discretion (syllabus, class rules, etc.) A4: Emergency Procedures- Practice/Demonstrate these with your class Dismissal Procedures Teacher Discretion (syllabus, class rules, etc.)

5. Arrival Procedures • Arrive and enter the building at 7:30 AM or later • If you are here before 7:30 AM you are ONLY allowed in the Fine Arts wing with a supervising teacher • You need a note from a teacher to enter the rest of the building before 7:55 AM • Upon entering the building remove headwear, hats, sunglasses, etc. • Discard all open food and drinks before entering building. • All personal technology must be turned off from 8:25 until 3:15, except with teacher permission in classroom. • Upon entering building , go to either the cafeteria, Media Center or to upper or lower locker areas. • Interact in a safe, civil, and orderly manner. • Keep hands, feet, objects and inappropriate comments to yourself. • Use a respectful voice level in conversations. • Stop, listen and respond respectfully to all adults when addressed. • Vocational students will report to an assigned teacher when they arrive at the building in the morning or afternoon. • Once the class bell rings, be silent for Mr. Henderson’s morning announcement

6. Tardy Procedures • Move quickly and quietly to class. • Be in the classroom, preparing to work when the bell rings. • If you are not in your assigned class when the bell rings, you are to report to the tardy table. • The tardy tables will be located in the upstairs “ring” near the steps and downstairs by the cafeteria starting Monday. • You will sign-in and take the tardy table slip to your teacher. • A teacher will accompany you to class. • Tardy slips are NOT hall passes! • The Administrative Dean Mr. McCoy will get a list of tardy students from attendance every single day and tardy students will be required to meet with him and get consequences for tardies. • If you are later than ten minutes, you are considered skipping (not tardy) and must go to the office to meet with a principal or the administrative dean before you can go to class. • One consequence for tardies or skipping may be SAFE

7. Tardy Policy • 5 tardies will result in Friday detention (3:30 to 5:00) • If you miss Friday detention this will result to Saturday detention (8:00 to 12:00) • If you miss Saturday detention, you will be suspended for 5 days. • This will happen every time you have 5 tardies!

8. SAFE • You are expected to work quietly while in SAFE. • The SAFE teacher will contact parents to report tardy behavior. • You are expected to work quietly while in SAFE. • The SAFE teacher will contact parents to report tardy behavior.

9. Hall Passes • To avoid disciplinary consequences, you must have a clipboard or one-way hall pass if you enter the hallways—even to get a quick drink of water. • Your teachers will issue hall passes only in EXTREME EMERGENCIES. Some teachers may ask you to sign-out to receive a hall pass. • Use the restroom, go to the your locker, etc., during class changes or lunch.

10. Dress Code Guidelines • The wearing or carrying of any clothing or symbol that denotes gang activity is prohibited on school grounds and at school activities both on and off campus. • No hats, hair nets, bandanas, wrap scarves, beanies/berets, hoods, sunglasses or other covering. This applies to male and female students. • No sagging of pants or shorts. They must be worn above the hips. • No strapless or sleeveless shirts or dresses. • No clothing that bares midriff. • No see-through apparel. • No leggings unless they are covered by something longer than your fingertips. • No extremely short skirts, shorts or dresses. Hems must be fingertip length. • No dresses or long skirts with slits that pass mid-thigh. • No underwear showing! This includes other types of clothing that resembles underwear. • No pajamas or house shoes. • No apparel that school staff judge to be too revealing and distracts from the educational environment. • No other type of clothing that the administration considers to denote gang involvement or is inappropriate for a school setting.

11. Cafeteria Procedures • Remain in the cafeteria during the entire lunch period, unless you have a pass issued by a teacher, a library pass, or administrative permission. • Use a respectful voice level in conversations. • Line up in single file, arrival order. • Talk respectfully to cafeteria staff and wait patiently in line. • Remain seated in the cafeteria unless disposing of trash, emptying trays, going to the restroom, or moving to sit with peers at another table. • You must consume all food and drinks in the cafeteria—you may not eat or drink anywhere else. • Clean your area before leaving the cafeteria. • Push your chair in under the table when the bell rings to go to class.

12. Hallway Procedures • Entry stairwell: Walk up on the right Walk down on the left • All other stairwells have two-way traffic. • Walk on the right side of the hallways and stairwells to keep traffic moving. • You must have an approved pass for the hallways. • Use a respectful voice level in conversations. • No food or drinks permitted. • Stop, listen, and respond respectfully to all adults when addressed. • Behave in a safe, civil, and orderly manner. • 15/15 rule: no hall passes during the first or last 15 minutes of class. • Store all headwear, hats, sunglasses, etc., in your backpack or locker. • Remain in the building. • Move quickly and quietly to your designated area.

13. Media Center Expectations • You may use the library’s computers for general interest or for homework assignments. • You may not play video games on the computers, download videos, or access inappropriate web-sites such as Twitter. • Use your own computer account—no sharing accounts with others. • Speak with a quiet voice level appropriate for a library. • No food or drinks in the library. • Only sit in chairs while in the library. Do not sit on the tables. • Push your chair in under the table or desk when leaving the library. • Leave the library to go to your 1st block class when the bell rings at 8:20 a.m. • You must have an individual library pass (from your 3rd block teacher) to enter the library during lunch hours. • Follow the processes of entering and exiting correct doors and sign-in procedures.

14. Computer Usage • You must complete an AUP form (available in the media center) to log onto the computers.

15. Cell Phone Policy • You may only use your cell phone when a teacher gives you permission for instructional purposes in his or her classroom. • You may not use your phone in the hallways, cafeteria, library, or any other common area. • If you use or display your phone without permission, an adult will bag and tag your phone for the front office. • Per board policy, refusal to turn over a cell phone or prohibited device when requested will result in a two-day suspension.

16. Emergency Procedures In case of emergency . . . • Remain with your designated teacher at all times. • Move quickly and quietly to the designated area. • School rules, including those for personal technology, remain in effect. • If an evacuation occurs when you are not in a classroom (such as lunch, hallway passing period, assembly, etc.), you should leave the building and report to your assigned teacher.

17. Dismissal Procedures • Remain in your classroom until dismissed by the teacher. • Bus riders, walkers, and student drivers must exit by the side doors into the back parking lot. • Immediately exit the building and campus or report to your designated supervised area. • Interact in a safe, civil, and orderly manner. • Keep hands, feet, objects, and inappropriate comments to yourself. • Use a respectful voice level in conversations. • Stop, listen, and respond respectfully to all adults when addressed. • Be respectful of all school property. • The Student Code of Conduct still applies.

18. How to succeed . . . • Remember the Defender Top 5! • Arrive to class PREPARED to work. • Stay FOCUSED on your work throughout the class. I will only allow you to leave the classroom for an emergency. • Demonstrate RESPECT for your teacher, your peers, and yourself in all that you do.

19. Meet ms. Stokes

21. REVIEWING THE SYLLABUS AND IMPORTANT INFO.

22. How can I contact Ms. Stokes? • Planning Periods: - A3: 11:35 – 1:40 - B3: 11:35 – 1:40 • Room Phone #: 381-3308 ext. 2224 • Email: lydia.stokes@fayette.kyschools.us • Website: http://msstokesenglishclass.weebly.com

23. How will I be graded? • Final Exam-15% • Tests/Quizzes/Projects/Writing-50% • Daily Work- 35% *I am always willing to let a student work to improve a grade on an unsatisfactory assignment if it was turned in on time. If you make a genuine effort to improve your score, I am willing to grade it. The Bryan Station High School Grading Scale is as follows: A  92-100 B  86-91 C  75-85 D  65-74 F   0-64

24. How will we begin class? Every day as you walk into the classroom, you will see a bell ringer on the board. You should begin working as soon as the BELL RINGS. Sometimes these activities with focus on vocabulary, grammar, or review what we studied during the previous class. Sometimes it may introduce skills or content to be studied during that day’s lesson.

25. What do you do during a drill? Do you know where to go and what to do in the following situations? • Earthquake? • Severe weather? • Fire? • Lockdown?

26. Rhetoric = argument Write this on your syllabus!

27. Introduction to Paideia seminar

28. Pre-Reading Please silently, read the speech, “Ain’t I A Woman?” and annotate anything powerful or significant that stands out to you.

29. Group Discussion: The piece we just read was given by Sojourner Truth. • Has anyone ever heard of her before? • Does anyone know what “sojourn” means?

30. Group Discussion so·journ • [n. soh-jurn; v. soh-jurn, soh-jurn] • noun 1. a temporary stay: during his sojourn in Paris. • verb (used without object) 2. to stay for a time in a place; live temporarily: to sojourn on the Riviera for two months. Based on this, what inferences can you make regarding a woman who changed her name to Sojourner Truth?

31. Historical Background This speech was delivered by an African-American freed slave. Originally named Isabella Baumfree, she had by the 1850s changed her name to Sojourner Truth and become a powerful voice both for women’s rights and for the abolitionist movement. Like her contemporary Frederick Douglass, she was a practiced and very skilled orator. This speech was delivered in 1851 at the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. Do we have a volunteer who will read the speech aloud to the class?

32. Pre-Seminar Discussion We are preparing to have a Paideia Seminar, a collaborative, intellectual dialogue about a text, facilitated with open-ended questions. The main purpose of seminar is to arrive at a fuller understanding of the textual ideas and values in this speech of ourselves, and of each other. We are going to work together and practice thinking about citizenship, democracy, man vs. woman, race and additionally, how this type of thinking will play out in our AP Language class that analyzes rhetoric.

33. Pre-Seminar Discussion As the facilitator, I am primarily responsible for asking challenging, open-ended questions, and I will take a variety of notes to keep up with the talk turns and flow of ideas. I will help move the discussion along in a productive direction by asking follow-up questions based on my notes. As participants, I am asking you to think, listen, and speak candidly about your thoughts, reactions, and ideas. You do not need to raise your hands in order to speak; rather, the discussion is collaborative in that you try to stay focused on the main speaker and wait your turn to talk. You should try to both agree and disagree in a courteous, thoughtful manner. For example, you might say, ‘I disagree with Joanna because…,’ focusing on the ideas involved, not the individuals.

34. Pre-Seminar Discussion Now, let’s think about how we normally participate in a discussion as a group. Is there a goal that we can set for ourselves that will help the flow and meaning of the seminar? For this seminar, I would us to focus on paraphrasing what you hear others say before adding your thoughts. Please consider the list of personal participation goals that I have listed on the board. •  To speak at least three times • To refer to the text in detail • To keep an open mind • To speak out of uncertainty Which one is a particular challenge for you personally? Please choose one goal from the list and commit to achieving it during the discussion we are about to have? Please write your personal goal on your text.

35. Circular Discussion: We will each go around the room and answer the following question. Every student must respond: In one sentence, what do you think was the purpose of Sojourner Truth’s speech?

36. Group Discussion: Based on our individual responses, what in the text makes you think this is her purpose?

37. Performance of “Ain’t I A Woman” As we listen to the audio of the speech being performed, do you notice anything different about the development of the speech? • Emphasis? • Techniques or Strategies? • Tone? • Purpose?

38. Would it change your mind? What if I told you… • This speech was delivered in 1851, before the Civil War had occurred. How does the context affect the delivery of her speech or her audience’s reaction to it? • Truth was not literate. So the speech you just read was a transcribed version of the one that Truth gave in 1851. • Truth exaggerated some of the facts in her speech. In fact, she really only had six children. Fun Fact: Truth was the first woman to ever win a legal suit against a white man for the return of her children.

39. Closing Question: Normally, we would take our discussion today and brainstorm a writing assignment; however, today we will merely discuss our closing questions and how these activity was relevant to our discussion of the AP Language curriculum. • Why would an uneducated, emancipated slave stand up in front of hundreds of women (and a few men) to deliver this speech? • Is the speech more about her rights as a woman or her rights as an African-American? • At what point in the speech do you think she would have spoken with the most emotion? Why? • How do you think the women in the audience responded to her remarks? How do you think the men responded? Why? • If you had been in the audience on that day, what would have been your response to Sojourner Truth? Why?

40. Analysis of AP prompts In this class you will see THREE primary styles of essays: • Rhetorical Analysis • Argument • Synthesis What do you think each of these essays will ask you to do?

41. Analysis of AP prompts Rhetorical Analysis Argument Sojourner Truth (1797 – 1883) was a famous orator who frequently fought for improved conditions for African-American slaves and women. Read the speech carefully. Then write an essay in which you analyze the rhetorical strategies Truth uses to convey her message to her audience. Support your analysis with specific references to the text. Read the following passage by the famous orator Sojourner Truth (1797 – 1883). Then write a carefully reasoned essay that defends, challenges, or qualifies one of Truth’s claims. Support your argument with appropriate evidence.

42. Assigning homework:

43. Reviewing the Parent/Guardian and Student Letter Please return your completed and signed letter next class for your first grade!

44. Writing a letter to yourself . . . In a 5-paragraph letter to yourself, address the following questions: • Why did you take this course? • What do you hope to learn or gain from the class? Why? • What are your greatest strengths related to reading and writing? Why? • What are your areas of greatest weakness related to reading and writing? Why?

45. Due next class . . . • All class materials • Completed and signed parent/guardian letter • Completed homework assignment (due at the beginning of class)