AP English Language and Composition 2010: Ferris Bueller-Contemporary Transcendentalist?

After reading Emerson's "Self Reliance" excerpt and viewing clips from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, compose a paragraph applying one of Emerson's precepts to your generation.

Due Monday. We'll use in class to talk about writing.

Assignments

The following are "due dates" unless otherwise noted. There is a vocabulary quiz at the conclusion of each week.

12/17-Huck Finn (Twain); Progress Reports
12/8-Huck Finn (Chap. 16)
12/7-"Deep Cold" (Klinkenborg) and Questions (1-4; 1-5)
12/6-"A Sandwich" (Ephron) and Questions (1-4, 1-5)
11/30-Practice AP Multiple Choice; AP Free Response Essay Revision
11/29-Practice AP Multiple Choice
11/24-Body Paragraph #2
11/23-Body Paragraph
11/22-Typed intro paragraph
11/19-Okekenofee Rhetorical Analysis
11/19-Nickel and Dimed Test Analysis
11/18-No Class
11/12-AP Free Response Essay
11/5-End of Marking Quarter
11/5-Nickel and Dimed (Ehrenreich) Conceptual Test
11/4-Down & Out in Paris & London (Orwell) Excerpt
11/3-The Jungle (Sinclair) Excerpt
11/1-Free Response Essay Revisions
10/28-Journal #2
10/25-Into the Wild Test Analysis; Nickel and Dimed Reviews
10/19-Practice AP Multiple Choice
10/18-Practice AP Multiple Choice
10/14-Free Response Essay
10/8-Progress Reports
10/7-Into the Wild Rhetorical Analysis Test
10/4-Journal #2
10/1 The Wilderness Letter (Stegner)
9/28-"The Void Without the 'Great Beyond' (Verhovek)
9/27-Journal #1
9/24-"To Build a Fire" (London)
9/23-Tiger Times meeting
9/20-Emerson/Thoreau bookmarks in Into the Wild (Krakauer)
9/17-Vocabulary quiz; summer reading blogs
9/16-Thoreau's Walden excerpts; paragraph rewrite
9/13-"Self Reliance" paragraph
9/8-Emerson's "Self Reliance"
9/7-First day of school

From Paul Coelho"s The Alchemist

"It's a book that says the same thing almost all the other books in the world say," continued the old man. "It describes people's inability to choose their own destinies. And it ends up saying that everyone believes the world's greatest lie."

"What's the world's greatest lie?" the boy asked, completely surprised.

"It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie."

"[...] Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their destiny."

"It is a force that appears to be negative, but actually shows you how to realize your destiny. It prepares your spirit and your will [...] To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation."

Arthur Miller"s Death of a Salesman

Biff: "Pop! I'm a dime a dozen, and so are you!"

Willy: "I am not a dime a dozen! I am Willy Loman, and you are Biff Loman!"

Biff: "I am not a leader of men, Willy, and neither are you. You were never anything but a hard-working drummer who landed in the ash can like all the rest of them! I'm one dollar an hour, Willy! I tried seven states and couldn't raise it. A buck an hour! Do you gather my meaning? I'm not bringing home any prizes any more, and you're going to stop waiting for me to bring them home!"

AP English Language and Composition 2010

Friday, September 17, 2010

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