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Read the opening of Wild , a best-selling memoir by Cheryl Strayed about hiking the Pacific
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Identity
, a best-selling memoir by Cheryl Strayed about hiking the Pacific
Crest Trail in the 1990s, after the unexpected death of her mother and the breakup of her
Crest Trail in the 1990s, after the unexpected death of her mother and the breakup of her
first marriage.
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West — until at last I found myself, bootless,
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in the summer of 1995, not so much loose in
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come to know that anything could happen and hope. A world I thought would both American Indian/Alaska Native Asian/Paci c Islander Hispanic/Latino
and hope. A world I thought would both
make me into the woman I knew I could
and that everything would. But that doesn’t make me into the woman I knew I could African American/Black White Two or more races
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Data from U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights.
once been. A world that measured two feet
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Data from U.S. Department of Education O ce for Civil Rights.
six years old and an orphan too. An actual wide and 2,663 miles long.
Identify at least two assertions Baldwin makes that these graphs would support.
wide and 2,663 miles long.
A world called the Pacific Crest Trail.
stray , a stranger had observed a couple of A world called the Pacific Crest Trail. 5 5
Topics for Composing weeks before, when I’d told him my name 4
Compare and contrast the tone and purpose of this excerpt to the tone and purpose of
Compar e and contrast the tone and purpose of this excerpt to the tone and purpose of
1. AP ® FRQ Rhetorical Analysis. In her 2018 essay “Country Pride: What I Learned Growing 203
Haile’s essay.
Up in Rural America,” journalist Sarah Smarsh draws upon her experiences growing up in
Kansas to illuminate the complex relationships between personal identity and political
identity. Read paragraphs 1–14 carefully. Write an essay that analyzes the rhetorical choices
Smarsh makes to achieve her purpose of making smaller “[t]he distance between my world 05_sheatlc4e_40925_ch04_170_315_7pp.indd 203 06/10/22 4:05 PM
and my country’s understanding of it” (par. 29). I revisit passages from the books I carried for the hatred that courses through this coun-
in search of my own light. Many start planning
2. AP ® FRQ Argument. The concept of the American Dream has loomed large in many try’s veins, but out of hope for the progress
NEW! Key Context notes ensure rigorous texts and
their next long trek. Who could blame them?
that is destined to replace it. I can tell you
writers’ imaginations, and much has been written — especially recently — about whether it is
there are many ways to fight, even when things
At some point, most long-distance hikers ask
attainable. In a 2018 essay, journalist Sarah Smarsh wrote, “It wasn’t that I’d been wrong to
feel hopeless. That the risk may not be worth
themselves whether it was worth the “what
be suspicious of government programs, I realized, but that I’d been wrong to believe in the
challenging ideas are approachable for all students.
now?” There’s no one answer. I can tell you
American Dream. They were two sides of the same trick coin — one promising a good life in
it. That there might come a time when you
Other Voices / Ilya Kaminsky
that kindness is everywhere, not as an excuse
won’t have a choice either way. That you
exchange for your labor and the other keeping you just alive enough to go on laboring”
(par. 39). Write an essay that argues your position whether the American Dream is a “trick”
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These notes accompanying most texts provide a sense of the bigger picture to help students
intended to mislead people or an ideal that benefits those who aspire to it.
3. Research. In paragraph 9, Smarsh recounts the story of her grandfather’s land being seized
navigate unfamiliar contexts that come with nonfiction from other time periods and cultural
through eminent domain. Research the history of eminent domain. Does your research
support or call into question Smarsh’s claim that this government policy “[pushes] poor rural
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traditions. This support is key for developing readers and English Language Learners.
4. Creative Writing. Using Smarsh’s essay a as a model, write a personal essay entitled
“ Pride” that connects one aspect of your identity with a larger issue facing the
world today.
from Searching for a Lost
Odessa — and a Deaf Childhood
Ilya Kaminsky from What, to the Slave, Is the Fourth of July?
Born in Ukraine in 1977, Ilya Kaminsky emigrated in 1993 to the United
States, where his family was granted asylum. He has a BA from Frederick Douglass
Georgetown University and a law degree from the University of Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) was an African American orator,
California Hastings College of Law. Kaminsky helped to start Poets for Russell Hart/Alamy social reformer, and writer. Born into slavery near Hillsboro,
Peace, which sponsors poetry readings throughout the world. His Maryland, he taught himself to read and write in his teenage years Other Voices
2019 collection, Deaf Republic, was nominated for the National Book and secretly spread his knowledge to fellow enslaved people. After IanDagnall Computing/Alamy
Award in Poetry. he escaped from slavery in 1838, he became an instrumental figure
of the abolitionist movement. Famous for his eloquent speeches
KEY CONTEXT Kaminsky lost most of his hearing as a result of mumps when he
was four years old. He did not receive hearing aids until age sixteen, after his family, and dazzling rhetoric, he was a leading intellectual of his day.
fleeing antisemitism in Ukraine, was granted asylum in the United States. In this essay, Douglass wrote several autobiographies about his experiences, including Narrative of the
Kaminsky writes about Ukrainian history as well as his experience of deafness, which Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (1845) and Life and Times
he — like many d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing people — does not view as a problem in of Frederick Douglass (1881).
need of a solution. Additionally, much of what Kaminsky explores from the past KEY CONTEXT Frederick Douglass gave this speech — arguably his most famous — in
centers on the Nazi occupation of Soviet Ukraine during World War II (1939–1945). Rochester, New York, at a Fourth of July celebration, an event many American cities marked with
From 1941 to 1944, between 1.2 and 1.6 million Jewish Ukrainians were killed. readings of the Declaration of Independence. The speech was distributed later in pamphlet form
and appeared in Douglass’s newspaper, Frederick Douglass Paper, on July 9, 1852. This speech
is considered a jeremiad, which typically presents a biblical or spiritual ideal for behavior, then
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describes the ways individuals and communities have fallen from those standards, and finally
provides a vision for an ideal public life that will result from a return to those high standards.
ellow-citizens; above your national, tumul- I do not hesitate to declare, with all my soul, that xvii
F tuous joy, I hear the mournful wail of the character and conduct of this nation never
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millions! whose chains, heavy and grievous looked blacker to me than on this 4th of July!
yesterday, are, to-day, rendered more intolera- Whether we turn to the declarations of the past,
ble by the jubilee shouts that reach them. If I do or to the professions of the present, the conduct
forget, if I do not faithfully remember those of the nation seems equally hideous and revolt-
bleeding children of sorrow this day, “may my ing. America is false to the past, false to the pres-
right hand forget her cunning, and may my ent, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the
tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth!” 1 To future. Standing with God and the crushed and
forget them, to pass lightly over their wrongs, bleeding slave on this occasion, I will, in the
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and to chime in with the popular theme, would name of humanity which is outraged, in the
be treason most scandalous and shocking, and name of liberty which is fettered, in the name of
would make me a reproach before God and the constitution and the Bible, which are disre-
the world. My subject, then fellow-citizens, is garded and trampled upon, dare to call in ques-
AMERICAN SLAVERY. I shall see, this day, and tion and to denounce, with all the emphasis
its popular characteristics, from the slave’s point I can command, everything that serves to
of view. Standing, there, identified with the perpetuate slavery — the great sin and shame
American bondman, making his wrongs mine, of America! “I will not equivocate; I will not
excuse;” I will use the severest language I can
command; and yet not one word shall escape
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