11th ELA

AP Language Extensions

Supplemental Texts

“A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “Woman in the Nineteenth Century” by Margaret Fuller “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” written by Himself “Excerpts from Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe “Excerpts from Moby Dick” by Herman Melville

Synthesis

Abraham Lincoln: The Great Emancipator

John Brown: Patriot or Terrorist?

The Legacy of Henry David Thoreau

(See Conversations in American Literature Anthology compiled by Robin Dissin Aufses, Renee H. Shea, Lawrence Scanlon, and Kate Aufses)

Rhetorical Analysis

1988 AP Language Question 2: Analyze Frederick Douglass’ language, especially the fgures of speech and syntax, to convey his states of mind upon escaping slavery and arriving in New York in 1838. 1993 AP Language Prompt: Compare the rhetorical strategies – such as arguments, assumptions, attitudes, diction – used by characters from Jane Austen (1813) and Charles Dickens (1865).Comment on both intended and probable effects of the proposals on the women being addressed.

1988 AP Language Prompt: Paying particular attention to tone, analyze the techniques Charles Lamb uses to decline William Wordsworth’s invitation to visit him in the country.

2001 AP Language Prompt: George Eliot’s letter to an American woman M. F. Peirce. Analyze the rhetorical strategies Eliot uses to establish her position about the development of a writer.

2005 AP Language Prompt: Lecture delivered in Boston in 1832 by Maria Stewart, African American educator and writer. Analyze the rhetorical strategies Stewart uses to convey her position.

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