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UNIT 1: COMMUNICATING AN IDEA
Rhetorical Situation: The Writer’s Message Queen Elizabeth II, History Will Remember Your Actions
Claims and Evidence: The Writer’s Claim Stephen King, Why We Crave Horror Movies
Reasoning and Organization: Narration and Description Gary Soto, The Jacket
Language and Style: The Writer’s Tone Trevor Noah, The World Doesn’t Love You
Putting it All Together: Modeled Text Noah Spencer, Why I, a Heterosexual Teenage Boy Want to See More Men in Speedos (student writing)
Ideas in American Culture Colonization and Exploration William Bradford, from Of Plymouth Plantation N. Scott Momaday, from The Way to Rainy Mountain
Faith and Doubt Jonathan Edwards, from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Langston Hughes, Salvation
Composition Workshop: Writing a Narrative Brighton Earley, Finding the Flexibility to Survive (student model)
Rhetorical Situation: Creating a MessageReasoning and Organization: Creating UnityClaims and Evidence: Developing and Supporting a ThesisLanguage and Style: Conveying an Attitude
Preparing for the AP® Exam
Free-Response Question: Rhetorical Analysis
Writing and Supporting a Defensible Thesis Benjamin Franklin, from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Multiple-Choice Questions: Reading Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, from The Danger of a Single Story
Multiple-Choice Questions: Writing
UNIT 2: APPEALING TO AN AUDIENCE
Rhetorical Situation: Considering the Audience Kamala Harris, I Will Not Be the Last
Claims and Evidence: Relevant and Sufficient Evidence Steve Rushin, Give the Kids a Break
Reasoning and Organization: Persuasion Tenzin Namgyak, Why Diversity Is Necessary for Democracy (student writing)
Language and Style: Syntactical Choices for Effect George W. Bush, Address to Nation on September 20, 2001
Putting it All Together: Modeled Text Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Don’t Understand the Protests? What You Are Seeing Is People Pushed to the Edge
Ideas in American Culture
Reason and Revolution Patrick Henry, Speech to the Virginia Convention Harvey Milk, You’ve Got to Have Hope
Patriotism and Democracy Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, Number 1 Donald Kagan, On Patriotism
Composition Workshop: Writing a Persuasive Argument
Kalindi Desai, Phones Create Barriers between Peers (student essay)
Claims and Evidence: Selecting Relevant Evidence
Rhetorical Situation: Appealing to an Audience
Reasoning and Organization: Developing a Line of Reasoning
Language and Style: Creating Emphasis Through Syntax
Free-Response Question: Argument
Establishing a Line of Reasoning
Multiple-Choice Questions: Reading John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address
UNIT 3: UNDERSTANDING CONTEXT
Rhetorical Situation: The Rhetorical Context William McRaven, Make Your Bed
Claims and Evidence: Sources of Evidence Bryan Stevenson, Mockingbird Players
Reasoning and Organization: Exposition: Process Argument J.J. Goode, Single-Handed Cooking
Language and Style: Transitions Emma Chiu, Driving: Its Going Out of Style (student writing)
Putting It All Together: Modeled Text Chris Daly, How the Lawyers Stole Winter
Ideas in American Culture The Individual and Nature Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Nature Rachel Carson, The Obligation to Endure
The Individual and Society Henry David Thoreau, from Walden E.B. White, Walden
Composition Workshop: Writing a Process Argument
Alex Kucich, It’s Time for America to Start Feeling the Love for Ultimate Frisbee (student model)
Rhetorical Situation: Establishing Context
Claims and Evidence: Establishing a Purpose
Reasoning and Organization: Explaining Relevance
Language and Style: Using Transitions
Free-Response Question: Synthesis
Incorporating Evidence From Sources: Work Experience for Teens
Source A: Jessica Dickler, Why So Few Teenagers Have Jobs Anymore Source B: Helen Thomson, Why Adolescents Put Themselves First Source C: Abigail Hess, Young People Are Less Likely to Hold Summer Jobs Now—Heres What Theyre Doing Instead Source D: Grace Chen, Should Public Schools Provide Students With Vocational Opportunities
Multiple-Choice Questions: Reading Wendell Berry, from The Agrarian Standard
UNIT 4: ANALYZING PURPOSE
Rhetorical Situation: Multiple Purposes Patrick Wang, Why We Should Teach the Truth about American History (student writing)
Claims and Evidence: Function of Evidence Alyssa Biederman, Melina Walling, and Sarah Siock, Meet Gen Z Activists
Reasoning and Organization: Exposition: Definition Argument Hector St. John Crevocoeur, What Is an American?
Language and Style: Eliminating Ambiguity Amy Harmon, They Is the Word of the Year, Merriam-Webster Says, Noting Its Singular Rise
Putting it All Together: Modeled Text Barack Obama, 2008 Election Victory Speech
Ideas in American Culture Division and Unity Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman, from Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
Equality and Social Discontent Frederick Douglass, What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? Barbara Kingsolver, #MeToo Isn’t Enough: Now Women Need to Get Ugly
Composition Workshop: Writing a Definition Argument
Zoie Taylore, Redefining Ladylike (student model)
Rhetorical Situation: Connecting Audience and Purpose
Reasoning and Organization: Explaining Significance
Claims and Evidence: Selecting Purposeful Evidence
Language and Style: Eliminating Ambiguity
Writing Commentary Ta-Nehisi Coates, Testimony before House Judiciary Committee
Multiple-Choice Questions: Reading Colin Powell, Address at the Groundbreaking Ceremony of the US Diplomacy Center
UNIT 5: CREATING COHERENCE
Rhetorical Situation: The Writer’s Exigence PINK, MTV Video Music Awards Speech
Claims and Evidence: Unity and Coherence Kendrick Lamar, He Was Telling a Different Kind of Truth Statement Dictated to Paper Magazine
Reasoning and Organization: Causal Arguments Melena Ryzik, How Sesame Street Started a Musical Revolution
Language and Style: Syntax for Emphasis Narain Dubey, Breaking the Blue Wall of Silence: Changing the Social Narrative about Policing in America (student writing)
Putting It All Together: Modeled Text Madison Moore, Tina Theory: Notes on Fierceness
Ideas in American Culture Place and Values Mark Twain, from Life on the Mississippi Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, from Harlem is Nowhere
Opportunity and Oppression Upton Sinclair, from The Jungle J.D. Vance, from Hillbilly Elegy
Composition Workshop: Writing a Causal Argument
Keegan Lindell, Why I, a High School Football Player, Want to see Tackle Football Taken Away (student model)
Rhetorical Situation: Writing an Introduction
Reasoning and Organization: Unifying an Argument
Claims and Evidence: Connecting Relevant Evidence
Language and Style: Using Subordination and Coordination
Creating Unity and Coherence
Multiple-Choice Questions: Reading Corrie Ten Boom, from The Hiding Place
UNIT 6: ESTABLISHING AND EVALUATING CREDIBILITY
Rhetorical Situation: The Writer’s Credibility Tre Johnson, Black Superheroes Matter
Claims and Evidence: Strategic Evidence Dan Barber, What Farm-to-Table Got Wrong
Reasoning and Organization: Exposition: Classification/Division Argument Mindy Kaling, Women in Romantic Comedies Who Are Not Real
Language and Style: Precision of Language Richard Wright, A Hunger for Books
Putting It All Together: Modeled Text Greta Thunberg, Speech at the U.N. Climate Action Summit
Ideas in American Culture Endurance and Expression William Faulkner, Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech Lin Manuel Miranda, What Artists Can Do
Wealth and Poverty Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth Christian H. Cooper, Why Poverty Is Like a Disease
Composition Workshop: Writing a Classification/Division Argument
Josh C., A Massacre of Art (student model)
Claims and Evidence: Synthesizing Evidence
Reasoning and Organization: Arranging Reasons and Evidence
Rhetorical Situation: Establishing Credibility
Language and Style: Using Precise Diction
Synthesizing Evidence from Sources: Citizen Journalism
Source A: Jason Tanz, Journalism Fights for Survival in the Post-Truth Era Source B: Tony Rogers, Understanding Citizen Journalism Source C: Chris Hogg, Is There Credibility in Citizen Journalism Source D: Gracy Olmstead, Verifying Content on Facebook Is the User’s Responsibility Source E: Pew Research Center, One-Sided and Inaccurate News Seen as the Biggest Problems with News on Social Media (infographic) Source F: Gary Varvel, Excuse Me (cartoon)
Multiple-Choice Questions: Reading Franklin D. Roosevelt, The New Deal Speech
UNIT 7: COMPARING PERSPECTIVES Rhetorical Situation: Nuance, Complexity, and Contradictions Ryan Kim, This is Us, It Has Always Been: The Myth of American Exceptionalism (student writing)
Claims and Evidence: Qualification and Concession Tim Sprinkle, Do Robots Deserve Legal Rights?
Reasoning and Organization: Evaluation Comparison/Contrast Argument Suzanne Britt, Neat People vs. Sloppy People
Language and Style: Syntax for Purpose Colson Whitehead, The Loser Edit That Awaits Us All
Putting It All Together: Modeled Text Tommy Orange, How Native American Is Native American Enough?
Ideas in American Culture Identity and Identities Ralph Ellison, from Hidden Name and Complex Fate Durga Chew-Bose, Tan Lines
Justice and Civil Disobedience Martin Luther King, Letter from Birmingham Jail Edward Snowden, Why I Became a Whistleblower
Composition Workshop: Writing an Evaluation Argument Using Comparison and Contrast
Riley Stevenson, Climate Activists Must Fight for System Change and Individual Change (student model)
Rhetorical Situation: Introducing and Concluding an Argument
Reasoning and Organization: Connecting Reasons and Evidence
Claims and Evidence: Qualifying an Argument
Language and Style: Crafting Purposeful Syntax
Explaining Significance Rosa Parks, Quiet Strength
Multiple-Choice Questions: Reading Natalie Goldberg, from Writing Down the Bones
UNIT 8: EXPLAINING COMPLEXITIES
Rhetorical Situation: The Dynamic Rhetorical Situation
Preminda Jacob, Banksy and the Art of Destroying Art
Claims and Evidence: Counterarguments: Refutation and Rebuttal Molly Ivins, Guns: Ban the Things. Ban Them All.
Reasoning and Organization: Evaluation: Problem/Solution Argument Paul Jankowski, Are We So Connected That We’re Disconnected? Three Ways to Break through the Clutter
Language and Style: Identifying Contrast and Incongruity Lydia Wei, Trendy Restaurant Menu (student writing)
Putting It All Together: Modeled Text Kevin Roose, Dont Scoff at Influencers. Theyre Taking Over the World
Ideas in American Culture Mind and Matter Stephen Hawking, Questioning the Universe Mary Roach, from Stiff
Criticism and Critique Horace Miner, Body Ritual Among the Nacirema The Onion, Wealthy Teen Nearly Experiences Consequence
Composition Workshop: Writing an Evaluation Argument that Proposes a Solution
Walter Li, Self-Care Alone Will Not Fix The System (student model)
Rhetorical Situation: Addressing Complexity
Reasoning and Organization: Justifying a claim
Claims and Evidence: Developing a Counterargument
Language and Style: Connecting with an Audience Through Stylistic Choices
Acknowledging and Responding to Opposing Arguments
Multiple-Choice Questions: Reading Ronald Reagan, Tear Down This Wall
UNIT 9: JOINING THE CONVERSATION
Rhetorical Situation: Understanding the Rhetorical Situation Dan Crensaw, Five Lessons That Veterans Can Teach Us
Claims and Evidence: Biases and Limitations of Evidence Matthew S. Williams, Are Space Habitats the Wave of the Future
Organization and Development: Multimodal Arguments John Barry, It’s All a Part of the Game
Language and Style: Voice and Complexity Ingrid Marie Geerken, Once Upon a Falling October (student writing)
Putting It All Together: Modeled Text Toni Morrison, Be Your Own Story
Ideas in American Culture Truth and Consequences Barbara Ehrenreich, In America, Only the Rich Can Afford to Write about Poverty Scientific American, Truth in Journalism
Technology and Globalization Thomas Friedman, The World Is Flat Fareed Zakaria, Everyone Seems to Agree, Globalization Is a Sin. Theyre Wrong
Composition Workshop: Writing a Multimodal Argument
Nati Duron, Quiet Confidence: Introverts and the Power of Silence (student model)
Rhetorical Situation: Acknowledging Multiple Perspectives
Reasoning and Organization: Unifying an Argument Across Multiple Methods of Development
Language and Style: Establishing a Voice
Demonstrating Complexity: The Value of Liberal Arts Source A: Lynn Pasquerella, Yes, Employers Do Value Liberal Arts Education Source B: Robert Reich, A Four Year College Degree is Not Preparing People for Today’s Jobs Source C: Daniel Bortz, Skills Employers Look For in College Graduates Source D: Richard Vedder, Jonathan Robe, and Christopher Denhart, The Value of a College Degree is Diminishing Over Time Source E: Association of American Colleges and Universities, Employer Research Supports High Impact Learning Practices (infographic) Source F: Committee for Economic Development, Business Supporting College and Career Readiness (infographic)
Multiple-Choice Questions: Reading E.O. Wilson, The Bird of Paradise
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