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COMPOSITION WORKSHOP Writing about Theme 92
Workshop Focus: Establishing a Unifying Idea through
a Defensible Thesis Statement
STUDENT MODEL Preston Davis, Impulse, Ignorance, and Imminent

Consequence Literary Argument 100
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PREPARING FOR THE AP EXAM 103
Free-Response Question: Prose Fiction Analysis 103
Focus: Establishing a Unifying Idea through a
Defensible Thesis Statement 103
MODELED TEXT Hillary Jordan, from Mudbound Excerpt 103

PRACTICE TEXT Charlotte Brontë, from Jane Eyre Excerpt 109
Multiple-Choice Questions 111

PROSE Della Owens, from Where the Crawdads Sing
Excerpt 111

POETRY Martín Espada, Of the Threads That Connect

the Stars Poem 114

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