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both fresh and familiar voices.
The Central and Classic Essays are followed by Other Voices, a collection of rich,
rigorous nonfiction pieces that exemplify excellent writing. We believe that students
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benefit from reading and analyzing exceptional rhetoric from contemporary and
classic authors no matter whether the text is narrative, expository, or argumentative.
This section includes readings that are important and relevant to students because
provocative, even controversial topics promote active critical reading and thinking.
These texts span several centuries, drawing from writing both familiar and fresh,
building on classics by authors such as Frederick Douglass, Virginia Woolf, Ralph
Waldo Emerson, and Emmeline Pankhurst but also offering a wealth of important
5. Research. Willard was a founder and head of the WCTU, a women’s political action group
contemporary voices, such as J. D. Vance, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Carmen Maria
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that opposed alcohol consumption. Research the temperance movement, including its history
and basic tenets, and write a synthesis essay in which you examine the extent to which the
Machado, Chris Hayes, Amal Clooney, and Zadie Smith.
movement helped protect women and children. Use at least three sources to support your
response.
Identity
6. Connections. Write an essay in which you examine the process by which you learned a new
skill. Make sure to write about both the steps you took and the effect on your life of learning
the skill.
Professions for Women
Virginia Woolf
A prolific novelist, critic, and essayist, Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
was born in London. Her novels, particularly Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
and To the Lighthouse (1927), are renowned for their penetrating
psychological insight. Her novels are known for their use of interior
monologue or stream of consciousness. Woolf is also noted for
her nonfiction, especially for such works as The Common Reader AP Images
(1925), A Room of One’s Own (1929), and Three Guineas (1938).
Having struggled with depression for much of her life, she drowned
herself in 1941.
KEY CONTEXT “Professions for Women,” delivered as a talk in 1931 to the Addressing Threats to Media Freedom 8
Women’s Service League, was included in The Death of the Moth and Other Amal Clooney
Essays (1942). 2. AP ® FRQ Argument. In their 2021 essay “Organic Chemistry Taught Me to Fully Inhabit My 4
Mixed Identities,” Ariana Remmel examines their evolving elements of self through the lens of
Amal Clooney (b. 1978) is a Lebanese-British lawyer, activist, and
science, writing, “I also deserve the same tender consideration I give to the molecules in my
author. She was born in Beirut, Lebanon, but her family fled the
flasks. Perhaps I need to practice different ways of knowing myself so that I too can move
hen your secretary invited me to come many more unknown and forgotten, have
Lebanese civil war in 1980, emigrating to a suburb of London in the
and break and reform.” Write an essay that argues your position on the most important
W here, she told me that your Society is been before me, making the path smooth, Other Voices / Amal Clooney
United Kingdom. After graduating from the University of Oxford, she
factors to consider for people who aim to know themselves differently.
concerned with the employment of women and regulating my steps. Thus, when I came dpa picture alliance/Alamy
attended New York University Law School. A barrister (lawyer) at
3. Multimodal. Create a collage or playlist that encapsulates and brings together multiple
and she suggested that I might tell you some- to write, there were very few material obstacles
aspects of your identity. What facet of your identity does each image or song you chose
Doughty Street Chambers, Clooney specializes in international law
thing about my own professional experiences. in my way. Writing was a reputable and Other Voices / Viet Thanh Nguyen
represent? How do these different images and songs relate to each other? How do they,
and human rights. She is also the cofounder, along with her
It is true I am a woman; it is true I am employed; harmless occupation. The family peace was
cumulatively, create coherence — or do they reflect dissonance? Explain.
husband—actor George Clooney—of the Clooney Foundation for Justice.
husband — actor George Clooney — of the Clooney Foundation for Justice.
but what professional experiences have I had? not broken by the scratching of a pen. No
It is difficult to say. My profession is literature; demand was made upon the family purse.
KEY CONTEXT Amal Clooney delivered the following speech in July 2019, on the first day of the
Advice for Artists Whose Parents
and in that profession there are fewer experi- For ten and sixpence one can buy paper
Global Conference for Media Freedom, an annual event. The conference is a forum intended to
ences for women than in any other, with the enough to write all the plays of Shakespeare —
Want Them to Be Engineers
connect those who work in media, academia, international organizations, and governments in the
exception of the stage — fewer, I mean, that if one has a mind that way. Pianos and
pursuit of “the freedom to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas through any media,”
are peculiar to women. For the road was cut models, Paris, Vienna and Berlin, masters and
which “is crucial to enabling the exercise of all other human rights.”
Viet Thanh Nguyen
many years ago — by Fanny Burney, by Aphra mistresses, are not needed by a writer. The
Viet Thanh Nguyen (b. 1971) was born in Vietnam, and his family
Behn, by Harriet Martineau, by Jane Austen, cheapness of writing paper is, of course, the
xcellencies, ladies and gentlemen, thank
emigrated to the United States in 1975 after the fall of Saigon at the
by George Eliot — many famous women, and reason why women have succeeded as writers Mimmo Frassineti/Agf/Shutterstock Yet today, journalists are under attack like
E you very much for inviting me to address
end of the Vietnam War. After three years in a refugee camp in never before. They are dying not only while cov-
you today.
Pennsylvania, his family settled in San Jose, California. After high ering wars — but because they are being targeted
I am a human rights lawyer and my work has
194 school, Nguyen received a BA in English and ethnic studies from the for exposing crimes committed in war and for
shown me that advocacy for human rights is
University of California at Berkeley and stayed there for a PhD in speaking the truth about abuses of power in
often a fight for the next generation. We can eas-
English. He is a professor at the University of Southern California in Los peacetime.
ily take for granted rights that we only enjoy
Angeles and is the author of Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of In the last 18 months, over 100 journalists
because of the courage of those who came
War (2016) and the short story collection The Refugees (2017). He is best and media workers have been killed. India and
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before us. I can only practice as a barrister
known for his novel The Sympathizer (2015), which won a Pulitzer Prize for Brazil, 2 of the world’s largest democracies,
Fiction, and its sequel, The Committed (2021). because 100 years ago women in this country have some of the highest murder rates. And
fought for the right to study and practice law on the vast majority of these murders have gone
the same basis as men. A gay person can today unpunished.
hen I give lectures on college campuses, them that I wanted to be a writer. That would Last year when Washington Post columnist 5
marry the person they love only thanks to advo-
W the most difficult question I am asked is have been going too far. My day job was being a Jamal Khashoggi was tortured to death and dis-
cacy campaigns that began a generation ago.
this: “I want to pursue my dream, but my par- professor, and my dream job was being a writer, membered by Saudi Arabian officials in Istan-
But progress is not inevitable. We can also
ents want me to do something different. What which consumed my nights, weekends and bul, world leaders responded with little more
move backwards. And when it comes to the right
should I do?” summers. It was exhausting, but so were the than a collective shrug. And journalists are being
to a free press we are seeing — according to
I can relate. What would have made me sacrifices that my parents made for us. jailed in record numbers, with the highest rates
Freedom House — the 13th consecutive year of
happy as a young person was to be a writer and I did not expect my parents to read my reported in Turkey, China, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
decline across the globe. This decline in media
study literature. What would have made my par- books. Their acceptance of my choice to become and Iran.
freedom does not only mean that journalists
xiv ents happy was for me to become a doctor like my a professor was enough for me. And then one I am a witness in my legal practice to the
have fewer rights, it means we all have. Because
day I presented them with what they had not
brother, who went to Harvard and Stanford. How
as James Madison, one of America’s founding
could I come home to my refugee parents, who been expecting: a novel. Surprise! challenges faced by journalists. I have repre-
sented journalists targeted by their governments
fathers, warned us more than 200 years ago: the
worked seven days a week in their grocery store, right to a free press is “the only effectual guard- for reporting corruption and human rights
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and tell them that I wanted to read Jane Austen ian of every other right.” abuses from Azerbaijan to the Maldives, to
and the Romantic poets, and major in English, a What happens when our parents’ definition of 5
language they didn’t speak in their own home? happiness makes our happiness impossible? On 837
Eventually I did tell my parents I was major- college campuses, the young people who ask me
ing in English, but I wasn’t ready at first to tell this question are often Asian American, as I am,
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