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Writing Topic Sentences 148
Choosing Evidence 149
Crafting an AP ® Synthesis Essay:
Developing Commentary 150
How Free Is Free Speech? 157
Making Effective Rhetorical Choices 150
1. Thane Rosenbaum, Should Neo-Nazis Be
Allowed Free Speech? 157
Documenting Sources 151

2. Lata Nott, Free Speech Isn’t Always
ACTIVITY Writing a Body Paragraph 152
Valuable. That’s Not the Point. 159
Concluding Your Argument 152
3. Laura Beth Nielsen, The Case for
Revising an AP ® Synthesis Essay 153
Restricting Hate Speech 160
ACTIVITY Revising a Paragraph 154 CULMINATING ACTIVITY / SECTION 2 Contents

Analyzing a Sample AP ® Synthesis Essay 154 4. Signe Wilkinson, Free Speech (cartoon) 162
Abigail Kortering “The Value in the Voice of 5. Jacob Mchangama, The U.N. Hates Hate
Celebrities” (student sample essay) 154 Speech More Than It Loves Free Speech 163

ACTIVITY Providing Peer Feedback for 6. College Students’ Views on Whether Hate
Revision 156 Speech Should Be Protected by the First
Amendment (graph) 166
SECTION 3
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Thematic anthology chapters have built-in AP course alignment.
Developing Sophistication in an
Making Effective Rhetorical Choices to Address
AP Synthesis Essay
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Complexities and Tensions 168
166
Articulating the Implications or Limitations of an
Each thematic chapter includes the following key elements:
Argument 166
CULMINATING ACTIVITY / SECTION 3
Acknowledging the Limitations of a Source 167 Developing Sophistication in an AP ®
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Using Counterarguments to Address a Wider Synthesis Essay 169 NEW! AP Guided Tour
Context 168 Unit Chapter
Introductions
give an overview of
4 Identity essential knowledge
A universal theme 171
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designed to broaden and AP Unit skills.
students’ thinking, CHAPTER INTRODUCTION AP ® Unit 4 171
discussion, and CENTRAL ESSAY Amy Tan, Mother Tongue 174
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writing on the texts A Central Essay —
in the chapter. CLASSIC ESSAY Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to Be Colored Me 181 a rich rhetorical and
stylistic model by
OTHER VOICES Frances Willard, from How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle: Reflections of an a world-renowned
An Other Voices Influential Nineteenth Century Woman 187
section in each Virginia Woolf, Professions for Women 194 contemporary
chapter showcases James Baldwin, A Talk to Teachers 200 author — opens and
classics like Virginia Judy Brady, I Want a Wife 209 anchors the chapter.
Woolf’s “Professions Brent Staples, Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter
for Women” and Public Space 212
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fresh new voices like Jesmyn Ward, Cracking the Code 218 A Classic Essay —
Chris Hayes’s “On the Rahawa Haile, How Black Books Lit My Way along the Appalachian Trail 222 a major work by a
Internet We’re Always Sarah Smarsh, Country Pride: What I Learned Growing Up in Rural America 228 world-renowned
Famous” and Jesmyn author — invites
Ilya Kaminsky, from Searching for a Lost Odessa — and a Deaf Childhood 235 students to apply their
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Code.” These texts Wesley Morris, from My Mustache, My Self 244 skills to challenging
range in difficulty from Vivek Ramaswamy, The Plural Individual 254 and beloved rhetorical
highly accessible to Ariana Remmel, Organic Chemistry Taught Me to Fully Inhabit My Mixed masterpieces.
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serve as exemplars Viet Thanh Nguyen, Advice for Artists Whose Parents Want Them to Be
of rich rhetoric and Engineers 267
compelling argument. Héctor Tobar, from Home Country: What Does It Mean to Be Latino? 271
VISUAL TEXT Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait on the Borderline between Mexico and the United
States (painting) 284 A Visual Text section
that features especially
CONVERSATION Redefining Masculinity 287 powerful images—
A Conversation 1. Paul Theroux, Being a Man 287 including photographs,
that gives students 2. Stephanie Coontz, from The Myth of Male Decline 290 advertisements,
practice honing their 3. Roberto A. Ferdman, The Perils of Being Manly 292 magazine covers,
synthesis skills. Each 4. Collier Meyerson, Do We Need to Redefine Masculinity — murals, and paintings.
one has six to eight or Get Rid of It? 295 These images
sources with guiding 5. Gender and Social Pressure (graph) 298 encourage students
questions and an AP ® 6. Kehinde Wiley, Portrait of Oluranti Olaose (painting) 299 to engage with visual
Synthesis prompt 7. David French, Grown Men Are the Solution, Not the Problem 300 rhetoric in the same
that help students 8. Andrew Yang, The Data Are Clear: The Boys Are Not All Right 304 way they analyze
synthesize the words written rhetoric.
and ideas of others AP ® MULTIPLE-CHOICE Reading Questions / Amy Tan, from Mother Tongue 307
to craft their own PRACTICE Reading Questions / Zora Neale Hurston, from How It Feels to Be
arguments. Colored Me 310 NEW! An AP ®
Composition Questions / Tiny Homes 312 Multiple-Choice
Practice section
SUGGESTIONS Identity 315 with three sets of
FOR WRITING
questions: two reading
question sets on the
Central and Classic
5 Environment 317 Essays in that chapter
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Suggestions for Writing from AP -style Exam FRQs to longer multimodal as well as a set of
assignments, research projects, creative writing ideas, and more — these prompts
CHAPTER INTRODUCTION AP ® Unit 5 317 Composition questions
give students plenty of opportunities to sharpen their reading and writing on a topic tied to the
CENTRAL ESSAY ® Bill McKibben, 2050: How Earth Survived 320
skills for AP Lang and beyond. chapter theme.
CLASSIC ESSAY Rachel Carson, from Silent Spring 329
OTHER VOICES Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Nature 340 xi
Terry Tempest Williams, The Clan of One-Breasted Women 350
Wangari Maathai, Nobel Prize Lecture 357
Pope Francis, from On Care for Our Common Home 364
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