AP Language and Composition in “Nature”

Ms. Hagge’s AP Language and Composition class have been learning about rhetorical situation and rhetorical devices as they explore the essential question of the first thematic unit: “How do we reflect on humanity’s place in the natural world?”

After watching the film An Inconvenient Truth, discussing Al Gore’s rhetorical choices, doing presentations on rhetoric in a variety of texts concerned with the topic of climate change, we are now turning our attention to Emerson’s classic transcendentalist essay “Nature.”

We took the opportunity of fair weather, on a warm September afternoon to read and study “Nature” outside.