Ideas in Argument Building Skills and Understanding for the AP English Language Course
, by Williamson, John R.; Zell, Mary Jo; Davis, Elizabeth A.
- ISBN: 9781319356637 | 131935663X
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 2/21/2022
Ideas in Argument provides everything a teacher needs for a successful and fully aligned AP® Language course. Each Unit includes brief, approachable skill workshops aligned to each Big Idea in the Course and Exam Description and to AP® Classroom.
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 Message
Reasoning and Organization: Creating Unity
Claims and Evidence: Developing and Supporting a Thesis
Language 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
Preparing for the AP® Exam
Free-Response Question: Argument
Establishing a Line of Reasoning
Multiple-Choice Questions: Reading
John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address
Multiple-Choice Questions: Writing
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
Preparing for the AP® Exam
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
Multiple-Choice Questions: Writing
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
Preparing for the AP® Exam
Free-Response Question: Rhetorical Analysis
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
Multiple-Choice Questions: Writing
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
Preparing for the AP® Exam
Free-Response Question: Argument
Creating Unity and Coherence
Multiple-Choice Questions: Reading
Corrie Ten Boom, from The Hiding Place
Multiple-Choice Questions: Writing
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
Preparing for the AP® Exam
Free-Response Question: Synthesis
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
Multiple-Choice Questions: Writing
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
Preparing for the AP® Exam
Free-Response Question: Rhetorical Analysis
Explaining Significance
Rosa Parks, Quiet Strength
Multiple-Choice Questions: Reading
Natalie Goldberg, from Writing Down the Bones
Multiple-Choice Questions: Writing
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
Preparing for the AP® Exam
Free-Response Question: Argument
Acknowledging and Responding to Opposing Arguments
Multiple-Choice Questions: Reading
Ronald Reagan, Tear Down This Wall
Multiple-Choice Questions: Writing
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
Claims and Evidence: Synthesizing Evidence
Language and Style: Establishing a Voice
Preparing for the AP® Exam
Free-Response Question: Synthesis
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
Multiple-Choice Questions: Writing
GLOSSARY/GLOSARIO
GUIDE TO MLA, APA, AND CSE DOCUMENTATION STYLES
INDEX
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