Unit 0 SHIFT: First Lines 2022 AP Lang by Darice Moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang Choose a first line that appeals to you. Read it closely. What does this line tell you about the speech, book, or article? Complete the handout and turn it in to your class's Skill Check drawer. en-us 2022-08-09 03:00:43 UTC 2025-09-26 09:50:42 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4da.png I want to thank the Mills College Class of ’83 for offering me a rare chance: to speak aloud in public in the language of women. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257120886 Ursula K. LeGuin, May 22, 1983
A Left-Handed Commencement Address
]]> 2022-08-09 03:00:43 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257120886 INSTRUCTIONS darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257120930 Choose a first line that appeals to you. Read it closely. 

What does the line tell you about the book?

Complete the handout for Unit 0: SHIFT Your Perspective.]]> 2022-08-09 03:00:43 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257120930 I’d like to say for the record that -- and also for the men behind me who are also wearing the uniform and their medals -- that my sitting up here is really symbolic. I’m not here as John Kerry. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257127957 John Kerry, April  22, 1971
Statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
]]> 2022-08-09 03:13:50 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257127957 Good evening, my fellow citizens. This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet military buildup on the island of Cuba. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257128329 John F. Kennedy, October 22, 1962
Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation
]]> 2022-08-09 03:14:35 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257128329 Is it a right of life, when the young children of this country are being reared into a sphere which is more owned by 12 men than it is by 120 million people? darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257128675 Huey P. Long, February 23, 1934
“Every Man a King” Radio Speech to the Nation
]]> 2022-08-09 03:15:19 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257128675 Less than three months ago at platform hearings in Salt Lake City, I asked the Republican Party to lift the shroud of silence which has been draped over the issue of HIV and AIDS. I have come tonight to bring our silence to an end. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257128984 Mary Fisher, August 19, 1992
1992 Republican National Convention Address
]]> 2022-08-09 03:15:56 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257128984 I have come this evening to talk with you on one of the greatest issues of our time -- that is the preservation of human freedom. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257129377 Eleanor Roosevelt, September 28, 1948
The Struggle for Human Rights
]]> 2022-08-09 03:16:41 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257129377 Woman suffrage is inevitable. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257129600 Carrie Chapman Catt, November 1917
Address to Congress on Women’s Suffrage
]]> 2022-08-09 03:17:13 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257129600 Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257129845 Lou Gehrig, July 4, 1939
Farewell to Baseball Address
]]> 2022-08-09 03:17:46 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257129845 Houses are built for you to hold councils in. Indians hold theirs in the open air. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257130345 Shawnee Chief Tecumseh, 1810
Address to Gen. William Henry Harrison
]]> 2022-08-09 03:18:49 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257130345 It is a fact of the human condition that each shall, like a meteor, a mere brief passing moment in time in space, flit across the human stage and pass out of existence. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257130661 Nelson Mandela, June 26, 1990
First Address to a Joint Session of the U. S. Congress
]]> 2022-08-09 03:19:30 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257130661 Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257131027 Abraham Lincoln, November 19, 1863
Gettysburg Address
]]> 2022-08-09 03:20:21 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257131027 In this grave hour, perhaps the most fateful in our history, I send to every household of my peoples, both at home and overseas, this message, spoken with the same depth of feeling for each one of you as if I were able to cross your threshold and speak to you myself. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257131322 King George VI, September 3, 1939
First Radio Address
]]> 2022-08-09 03:21:00 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257131322 My Fellow Americans, I come before you tonight as a candidate for the Vice Presidency and as a man whose honesty and -- and integrity has been questioned. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257131617 Richard M. Nixon, September 23, 1952
Checkers Speech
]]> 2022-08-09 03:21:35 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257131617 Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen to administer the executive government of the United States being not far distant, and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should now apprise you of the resolution I have formed, to decline being considered among the number of those out of whom a choice is to be made. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257131918 George Washington, 1796
Farewell Address
]]> 2022-08-09 03:22:14 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257131918 This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257132509 Greta Thunberg, September 23, 2019
Address to the UN on Climate Change
]]> 2022-08-09 03:23:08 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257132509 How you have felt, O men of Athens, at hearing the speeches of my accusers, I cannot tell; but I know that their persuasive words almost made me forget who I was - such was the effect of them; and yet they have hardly spoken a word of truth. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257133020 Socrates (via Plato), 399 BC
Apology (trans. Jowett)
]]> 2022-08-09 03:24:13 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257133020 I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work -- a life’s work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257133152 William Faulkner, December 10, 1950
Acceptance of the Nobel Prize in Literature
]]> 2022-08-09 03:24:31 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257133152 It is August 1854, and London is a city of scavengers. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257133360 Steven Johnson
The Ghost Map

]]> 2022-08-09 03:25:01 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257133360 José Antonio Rey María had no intention of making history when he rowed out into the Atlantic from the coast of Andalusia in southwest Spain on April 30, 1943. He was merely looking for sardines. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257133551 Ben Macintyre
Operation Mincemeat
]]> 2022-08-09 03:25:21 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257133551 One evening, in September 2010, I was in the stands at a high school football game in Nashville, Tennessee, experiencing a powerful sense of déjà vu. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257133790 danah boyd
It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
]]> 2022-08-09 03:25:47 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257133790 There are no other Everglades in the world. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257134005 Marjory Stoneman Douglas
River of Grass
]]> 2022-08-09 03:26:08 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257134005 The scientist had forgotten all about the radium. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257134164 Kate Moore
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
]]> 2022-08-09 03:26:28 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257134164 The hordes arrive with the sun. First bell, the warning bell for first period at Largo High, rings at precisely 7:19 a.m. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257134363 Thomas French
South of Heaven, 1989
]]> 2022-08-09 03:26:50 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257134363 As this dismal year draws to a close, we fix our eyes on images of rescue: A vaccine. An inauguration. A spring that might bring reopenings instead of shutdowns. May we once again see crowded restaurants, empty hospital beds, peaceful streets, kind faces. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257134654 Robert Greene 
(2021 Pulitzer, opinion writing)
“What We Now See, with 2020 Vision”
Los Angeles Times, December 30, 2020
]]> 2022-08-09 03:27:27 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257134654 Nothing is harder to do than nothing. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257134803 Jenny Odell
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
]]> 2022-08-09 03:27:45 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257134803 The explosion ripped through Building A5 on a Friday evening last May, an eruption of fire and noise that twisted metal pipes as if they were discarded straws. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257134995 Charles Duhigg & David Barboza 
(2013 Pulitzer, explanatory writing)
“In China, Human Costs Are Built into an iPad”
New York Times, January 25, 2012
]]> 2022-08-09 03:28:08 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257134995 Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general Favor; a long Habit of not thinking a Thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of Custom. But the Tumult soon subsides. Time makes more Converts than Reason. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257135330 Thomas Paine
Common Sense, January 10, 1776
]]> 2022-08-09 03:28:46 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2257135330 The way into the underland is through the riven trunk of an old ash tree. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2262369817 Robert McFarlane
Underland: A Deep Time Journey]]> 2022-08-16 15:38:17 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2262369817 'Adventure,' wrote Alexandra David-Neel who trekked through the Tibetan Highlands, 'is my only reason for living'. Her words read as a feminist slogan. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2262372401 Dea Birkett
Spinsters Abroad: Victorian Lady Explorers]]> 2022-08-16 15:40:40 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLines2022Lang/wish/2262372401