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AP English Language and Composition

Unit 7: The Power of the Written Word

UNIT 7 KEY SKILLS & QUESTIONS

"Use It or Lose It: Why Language Changes Over Time”

by Nikhil Swaminathan
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“How Language Shapes the Way We Think”

by Lera Boroditsky (TED Talk)
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Assignment: Rhetorical Analysis Essay of the Text(s) "Use It or Lose It" and "How Language Shapes the Way We Think"

“What Students Know that Experts Don’t: School Is All about Signaling, Not Skill-Building”

by Bryan Caplan
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“An Innocent at Rinkside”

by William Faulkner
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“Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and the Billionaire Challenge”

by the Christian Faith Monitor Editorial Board

“Slang in America”

by Walt Whitman

“Learning to Read”

from The Autobiography of Malcolm X PDF

by Malcolm X

“Learning to Read and Write”

from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, by Frederick Douglass
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“How I Used Dungeons and Dragons to Teach Ethics”

by Christopher Robichaux (TED Talk)

“Why I Could Not Accept Your Invitation;" & "For Mahammed Zeid of Gaza"

by Naomi Shihab Nye

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