1. Excerpt From Education AP English Language And Composition
Note: keep your questions on your desk 
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Excerpt From Education AP English Language And Composition

2. What, then, is the purpose of education?

3. Add a Layer of Understanding
At the end of the text, there are two sections of questions
Questions for Discussion
Questions on Rhetoric and Style
Choose 6 total to answer
Not all from one section
Ones that you cannot answer easily in your head
Pick questions to answer that will help you to add a layer of understanding to your reading. Pick questions that help you to think about Emerson’s text in a different way than when you first read over it.
Answer these on notebook paper and turn it in

4. Journal in response to this

5. Add a Layer of Understanding
At the end of the text, there are two sections of questions
Questions for Discussion
Questions on Rhetoric and Style
Discuss your choices and responses

6. Thesis and Purpose Thesis = author’s central claim [what]
Purpose = what the author wants the audience to think or do after reading the text [so what]

7. Thesis Thesis = author’s central claim [what]
What are some concrete and abstract nouns in the text?
What is the message Emerson seems to be conveying about those ideas?

8. Thesis Thesis = author’s central claim [what]
Emerson encourages human potential yet reprimands society’s attempts to limit or harness individual learning.
Emerson asserts that education must be achieved through a balanced combination of genius and drill.

9. Purpose
Purpose = what the author wants the audience to think or do after reading the text [so what]
Emerson’s purpose is to __[verb]_ his audience to _[action]_ in order to __[outcome]__

10. Purpose
Purpose = what the author wants the audience to think or do after reading the text [so what]
Emerson’s purpose is to __[verb]_ his audience to _[action]_ in order to __[outcome]__
Emerson’s purpose is to inspire his audience to change the education system in order to promote self-discovery in learning.
Emerson’s purpose is to convince his audience to remove the artificial limits placed on learning by the education system in order to preserve hope in human potential.

11. Connect the Dots Look back through the texts we’ve read in this unit
Ask yourself: What is [insert author’s name here] central claim for “to be educated”?
Next, make connections between the texts. Focus on similarities and differences among them!
Prose – “I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read” (1999)
Talbot – “Best in Class” (2005)
Yousafzai – “Address at the Youth Takeover of the United Nations” (2013)
Malcolm X – “Learning to Read” (1964)
Alexie – “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me” (1998)
Borkat – “A Liberating Curriculum” (1993)
Emerson – from Education ( )
Next week: writing workshop for Education unit essay!!