11th ELA

AP Language and Composition Extension

Supplemental Texts

Mary Rowlandson, from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682)

Cotton Mather: Wonders of the Invisible World: A hortatory and Necessary Address to a Country Now Extraordinarily Alarum’d by the Wrath of the Devil (1693)

John Hale, from A Modest Inquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft (1697, 1702)

Anne Bradstreet, The Author to Her Book (poem, 1678)

Synthesis

Conversation: The American Jeremiad (See Conversations in American Literature Anthology compiled by Robin Dissin Aufses, Renee H. Shea, Lawrence Scanlon, and Kate Aufses) Conversation: Pocahontas: A Woman, A Movie, a Myth? (See Conversations in American Literature Anthology compiled by Robin Dissin Aufses, Renee H. Shea, Lawrence Scanlon, and Kate Aufses) Conversation: Columbus Day Controversy (See Conversations in American Literature Anthology compiled by Robin Dissin Aufses, Renee H. Shea, Lawrence Scanlon, and Kate Aufses)

Rhetorical Analysis

1985 AP Language Prompt: A passage on a boxing match between Benny Paret, a Cuban, and Emile Griffth – Analyze how diction, syntax, imagery, and tone produce an effect on the reader.

* The AP Prompts listed above are made available by the College Board to help students prepare for their AP Language and Composition exam. For additional information, please see www.collegeboard.org.

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