This PDF lesson plan prepares students for multiple portions of the AP Language and Composition exam (specifically, the multiple choice section and the rhetorical analysis prompt) by analyzing a brief text which students will be able to readily react to and deconstruct. In this lesson, students will read Annie Dillard's "So This Was Adolescence." Students will either identify with the author or reject her experience as foreign to adolescence. RI.11-12.6 Eval Purpose, Rhetoric, Style