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Volume I · MMXXVI AP English Language & Composition
Library AP English Language & Composition Unit 1: Rhetorical Foundations
⁂   AP English Language & Composition · Unit 1

1. Rhetorical Foundations

Key topics: Rhetorical situation: speaker, audience, purpose, subject, context, exigence, Identifying and describing claims in nonfiction texts, Evidence types: anecdotal, logical, empirical, authoritative, Claim-evidence-commentary paragraph structure, Introduction to the four Big Ideas: RHS, CLE, REO, STL, Defensible thesis statements that go beyond restatement.

15 instructional periods standard track

Unit 1: Rhetorical Foundations

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Topics in this unit

  • Rhetorical situation: speaker, audience, purpose, subject, context, exigence
  • Identifying and describing claims in nonfiction texts
  • Evidence types: anecdotal, logical, empirical, authoritative
  • Claim-evidence-commentary paragraph structure
  • Introduction to the four Big Ideas: RHS, CLE, REO, STL
  • Defensible thesis statements that go beyond restatement