Decide on your topic for a writing piece in response to or inspired by Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me. The writing piece itself will be due on Tuesday, Nov. 15. (If you'll be away at the MUN conference, it will due on Thursday, Nov. 17.) Below are the kernels of ideas suggested by both AP Lang classes:
A "letter" to a younger generation
A "letter" to the "older" generation
A "letter" to Coates in reaction to the book
A personal essay (possibly about the motif of physical vulnerabiliy or the illusion of race)
Is Between the World and Me pessimistic or realistic in its outlook?
Coates vis à vis Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Subjugation
About Coates having a process, but no answer, e.g., the open-ended struggle
Research on contemporary segregation
Coates in relation to his literary predecessors
Between the World and Me in relation to Coates's other writings
The illusion/social construct of race
The influence of black opinion makers on perceptions of race
How Coates's views influenced his parenting styles
The effectiveness of Coates's writing strategies
Rhetorical analysis of a passage
