What in tarnation is going on here in DeSANTISTAN now? Perhaps a bit of apple-polishing by the Tallahassee high school? What is the root cause of this inane inclusion of Boy Governor RONALD DION DeSANTIS's book? (My mom might have referred to such a self-serving tome as a "non-book," but she is not alive to share in the mirth and laughter at our Dull Republican Florida Governor's self-aggrandizing conflict of interest and abuse of AP reading lists. What a louche lugubrious goober. Pray for the Boy Governor).
Ron DeSantis’ memoir makes Tallahassee high school AP reading list
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.”
A.G. Gancarski
A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. He writes for the New York Post and National Review also, with previous work in the American Conservative and Washington Times and a 15+ year run as a columnist in Folio Weekly. He can be reached at AG@FloridaPolitics.com or on Twitter: @AGGancarski
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Pffft. He talks about "woke" indoctrination while saying nothing about the irrational ideology of religious fundamentalism... and now they makes his conservative manifesto, proclamation, diatribe, whatever you want to call it, part of school reading? These people are the biggest hypocrites on planet earth.
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