Consider, for a moment, the last time you tried to convince something to see things your way. Maybe you wanted your mom to buy you a new phone, or maybe you wanted your best friend to break up with her boyfriend, or maybe you were at work trying to convince a customer to buy whatever it was that you were selling.
In order to get your way, you needed to employ your powers of persuasion - you needed to convince some other person that your way of thinking was the BEST way of thinking (whether it really was or not).
AP English Language & Composition is a course in which you will learn the skills and techniques to persuade people that you are right. You will learn these tricks by analyzing the masters of persuasion and rhetoric (fancy word for arguing) and then by practicing through frequent writing and speaking.
At the end of this course, you will be able to convince anyone to do anything - well, maybe; it all depends on your work ethic and desire to always be right (and who doesn't enjoy the feeling of being able to say, "I told you so!").
In order to prepare for our upcoming year, please complete the following assignments below throughout the course of the summer, in addition to reading the Frederick Douglass autobiography and defining the literary terms. All you will need is a small notebook, which will be collected during the first week of school.
Ok, ready, set, prepare to be persuasive!
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