A.G. Gancarski
Administrators at one North Florida school had the courage to assign “The Courage to be Free.”
The Ron DeSantis tome, released ahead of his 2024 presidential campaign, is on the summer reading list for AP Language and Composition, as first spotted by Peter Schorsch.
The course, per Lawton Chiles High in Leon County, is “designed to be the equivalent in rigor to a college course in rhetoric, literature studies, and composition.”
“Special attention will be devoted to preparing students for the AP Language and Composition examination. We will be working with this assignment from the first day of class, so have the novel (SIC) read and annotated by the first day of class,” the list says.
Readers “need to show an active reading strategy throughout the entire book and should have no fewer than 40 annotations (on post-its, margin notes, etc.), with an eye towards “word choice (diction) … tone (What is the author’s tone towards the subject? How do you know? Does the tone shift?), sentence structure, audience, context, purpose, appeals.”
Students should consider: “Does the writer appeal to a reader’s sense of emotion? Which emotions? Is it effective? Does the writer appeal to a reader’s sense of logic? How does a writer use their credibility to appeal to the reader? Anything else that interests you as you read (Is there a particularly effective description? A beautiful or powerful image?)”
Students should be able to “complete a close reading assessment and rhetorical analysis assignment that shows your understanding of your selected text.”
Ironically, DeSantis has criticized AP offerings in the past, including the College Board’s Advanced Placement class in African American studies, a pilot course banned by the state last year.
“When you try to use Black history to shoehorn in queer theory,” DeSantis said, “you are clearly trying to use that for political purposes.”
41 comments
Danny E White
August 3, 2024 at 5:49 pm
Par for the hypocritical course!
ELVIS "THE BIG VOICE ON THE RIGHT"
August 3, 2024 at 9:27 pm
Good evening Sage Patriots & Dook 4 Brains Leftys,
RELAX YOUR SPHINCTERS:
And feel secure in the knowledge that ELVIS approved Ron’s Memoir being included on the basis of:
1. ) Ron and the Beautiful Casey’s Stellar Preformance as Florida’s Greatest Govornor Ever.
AND:
2. ) Ron and the Beautiful Casey’s “Future” Stellar Preformance as POTUS/FIRST LADY from 2028 – 2036.
IN CLOSING:
RELAX YOUR SPHINCTERS, America, as you settle into bed, to sleep in Heavenly Peace, secure in the Wisdom of ELVIS to “Free Your Minds (along with your Sphincters).
Remember America,
Nobody cares about your Sphincters as much as ELVIS,
“THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU VERY MUCH,
ELVIS
rick whitaker
August 4, 2024 at 6:29 pm
the sphincterman has spoken
SphincterWASMINE
August 6, 2024 at 6:34 pm
Troolman, I see you have been running wirh my comment on your loose sphincter. Feel free to it’s use, take it all in….agape.
Bill Pollard
August 3, 2024 at 5:57 pm
A Ron DeSantis memoir in an AP Language and Composition course? Give me a break!
MH/Duuuval
August 3, 2024 at 6:17 pm
The ol’ he-coon Lawton Chiles would be amused.
MH/Duuuval
August 3, 2024 at 6:17 pm
The ol’ he-coon Lawton Chiles would be amused.
ELVIS "THE BIG VOICE ON THE RIGHT"
August 3, 2024 at 9:40 pm
Good evening MH/DUUUVAL,
You, Son, are so very lucky that I, ELVIS, have lifted my usual Chastizement for posting Dook 4 Brains Leftist propaganda (like yours above) until after the Hurricane exits Folrida. This also applys to any masturbation bans currently in place. (Mike “your free now to wank to your heart’s content). And Mike dont forget your lube so you dont rub another hole in your Johnson,
Thank you MHDUUUVAL,
ELVIS
rick whitaker
August 4, 2024 at 6:31 pm
debby want’s to hug you earl
Ocean Joe
August 3, 2024 at 6:29 pm
Desantis’ Memoir: “How I ruined Florida” hopefully reads better than he like speaks you know.
Ninety Three
August 3, 2024 at 6:42 pm
So here we have the left loonies taking shots at our fine Governor. The guy attended Yale University and was Captain of the baseball team. He then received his law degree from Harvard University and became an officer in the USN. He is now a two term governor for Florida. The lefty loons instead worship Ka Mana. Sleeping with the mayor of San Francisco to get ahead in life The first candidate out of the Demo Presidential primaries in 2019. She gets picked as Biden”s VP nominee for one reason and one reason only. Now suddenly she is the savior of the Democratic Party This is a story in contrast. One worked hard , served this country. The other manipulated her way in by favors and identity politics.
Ocean Joe
August 3, 2024 at 7:03 pm
Have lived through 11 governors starting with Haydon Burns. Desantis is the absolute worst, with Rick Scott a close second. You like the explosive, unchecked growth, the skyrocketing insurance rates making homes unaffordable, the clogged roads, and all the weird involvement in our school system, the culture wars on masks, and trannies and drag queens…you can have it.
He sold us out to the insurance industry, he put an I-95 exit where it would help a developer buddy, he screwed around with New College like it was a toy. Oh yeah, he was captain of the baseball team at some Ivy League college he pretends to despise in order to appeal to the yahoos.
Ninety Three
August 3, 2024 at 8:20 pm
If DeSantis could run for a third term he would win easily. The majority of people in Florida love him. You and the others on the board here don’t but you are in the minority by a significant margin.
Ocean Joe
August 4, 2024 at 9:52 am
OK, it was 12 governors but I was too young to remember number 12, Collins or Faircloth. He’s still the worst.
Polling shows him underwater, for good reason. He’s too busy wasting taxpayer money on stunts like immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard or cops to Texas. Granted, it would take an independent like John Morgan, or a fellow Republican.
Cant speak for the new Floridians, the carpet baggers who love his cultural nonsense and enjoy 40-50% insurance increases.
Cheesy Floridian
August 3, 2024 at 7:43 pm
You can’t sit here and say he went to Yale and Harvard while he says those institutions breed the woke mind virus. Nope. DeSantis is not great at all and those students shouldn’t have to read that garbage. Oh wait he likes indoctrination
MH/Duuuval
August 4, 2024 at 10:34 pm
So, tell us how Dee earned a bronze star as a JAG adviser to a SEAL team.
rick whitaker
August 5, 2024 at 2:36 pm
howler monkey, sometimes the thoroughbred horse with the best lineage and best trainer finishes last or breaks a leg. desantis is not even in the thoroughbred range, and he is losing the race badly. winning the race would be like making florida better as gov. he has done badly and has come up lame. lame just like your opinions and lies that lack truth.
MH/Duuuval
August 3, 2024 at 7:23 pm
“Sleeping with the mayor of San Francisco to get ahead in life.”
Yep, that was sure to have swayed the electoral majorities Karma got in her various election contests.
Michael K
August 3, 2024 at 7:30 pm
You do know that Ron was a DEI admission – non-academic.
Ninety Three
August 3, 2024 at 8:06 pm
DEI doesn’t apply to Anglo’s. You should know that.
MH/Duuuval
August 3, 2024 at 10:24 pm
DEI for white boys = Jocks, legacies, and in Trump’s case, a timely sizable donation from papa.
Ninety Three
August 4, 2024 at 6:15 am
Can I invoke DEI policies for the NBA since you bring up jocks?
MH/Duuuval
August 4, 2024 at 10:00 am
NBA is all about DEI since Black men became the dominant element — ditto NFL. Or hadn’t you noticed?
rick whitaker
August 4, 2024 at 1:06 pm
HOWLER MONKEY, there you go again with your rabid racism. howler monkey = 93. 9 and 3 equal 12, that’s how many jurors convicted the felon known as the orange turd.
KathrynA
August 3, 2024 at 9:29 pm
Sickening to be put in a reading list with great literature! I guess it will help his book sales, but pity the students having to read it!
Ninety Three
August 3, 2024 at 9:43 pm
It’s optional not mandatory. The interested students will read it. The others will deface campus buildings, burn the American Flag, protest with the Hamas terrorists and then demand the taxpayers of America pick up their college tuition bill.
MH/Duuuval
August 3, 2024 at 10:26 pm
Flag-burning = First Amendment speech, which makes more sense than John Roberts’ “dark money = free speech”
Ninety Three
August 4, 2024 at 8:35 am
How about those terrorists getting their azzes handed to them if they burn the American Flag? Remind me of that goofball mayor when the rioters were burning down the city and she said, “we have to let them express themselves”.
MH/Duuuval
August 4, 2024 at 10:17 am
The days of racist whites with axe handles taking over a Southern downtown are long past. Time to donate your robes to a museum — or burn them.
The Audacity
August 3, 2024 at 11:01 pm
This is pretty f*cked up.
University of North Florida
August 4, 2024 at 2:16 am
This is disgusting!!
Phil Morton
August 4, 2024 at 6:38 am
“designed to be the equivalent in rigor to a college course in rhetoric…”. They got that part right.
Margaret
August 4, 2024 at 11:13 am
A new form of grifting, a la Trump: imagine the income DeSantis will gain from the sale of these books to students who have to read it for class credit.
MH/Duuuval
August 4, 2024 at 11:14 am
DeSantis — now a millionaire — is setting a poor example by not paying off his student loan, which is about 20 years old at this point.
DoneDealingwithDummies
August 4, 2024 at 1:21 pm
Florida man DesanctifiedPanties is the epitome of weird. Like delicious meth to Florida’s massive population of racist methheads but cringe to everyone else. I’m guessing witty AP students who decide to write about his book* will use the opportunity to savagely roast him. Dumb Ronnie will soon announce a plan to punish AP students for not being asleep like his supporters. How’s the environment looking In FL? How much is home insurance there? Exactly!
Jojo
August 4, 2024 at 5:13 pm
Oh. My. God.
Bang bang bang.. this is me pounding my head against the desk
Michael K
August 4, 2024 at 9:00 pm
It’s an awful book full of bland platitudes, intended to supercharge his political ambitions to live in the White House. Both failed miserably. This is not “Profile in Courage,” but it does have a few whiffs of Project 2025.
MH/Duuuval
August 5, 2024 at 10:32 am
The good news is that Dee has free time galore and can go to the AP class to lay out his views in person. We know high school history is Dee’s real metier.
Tjb
August 5, 2024 at 11:17 am
It should be a part of the reading list. Students should know that DeSantis is an ass with no moral compass and learn how a weak leader bows down to a false god with 34 convictions to further their political career. The lesson is simple —- the false god will make a fool out of you.
Bwj
August 6, 2024 at 6:52 pm
Novels are works of fiction. I don’t see how a personal memoir meets that…. oh nevermind.
Jojo
August 10, 2024 at 7:47 am
Indoctrination is in the eye of the beholder.
Hypocrisy thy name is desantis
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