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Advanced Placement® Edition

English Language & Composition

Grades 11–12

Make college level content accessible to all students without sacrificing the rigor required for success

  • Engage your students with carefully-selected unit anchor texts that serve as models and offer opportunities for in-depth analysis.

  • Assess skills and build exam confidence and competence throughout the course with carefully crafted AP®-style multiple-choice questions, as well as synthesis, rhetorical analysis, and argument free response prompts.

  • Evaluate final preparation with a complete summative test that mirrors the directions, timing, question formats, and content scope of the actual AP exam. Two additional tests are included in the Teacher Resources.

All with the benefit of decades of AP expertise through our team of veteran AP teachers, Exam Readers, Test Item Writers, Table Leaders, and College Board Consultants!

 

Teachers will first be excited about the straight talk and laser focus of these coursebooks. Next, they will appreciate how the writers expand that focus to improve all aspects of reading and writing. With texts and activities chosen to allow for scaffolded growth and diverse perspectives, there is something for learners at a variety of achievement levels and backgrounds.

 

Dr. Brandon Abdon, Senior Author
Doctor of Arts, English

100% CED Alignment

The coursebook is divided into nine units corresponding to the order of instruction recommended in the College Board Course and Exam Description (CED).

Anchor Texts

Students will return to the anchor text multiple times throughout each unit to practice related skills. As skills progress, they become more comfortable with the text and engage in deeper levels of analysis, rather than surface-level interactions with lots of different texts.

  • A mix of classic and contemporary works.
  • Diverse selections to provide a wide array of experiences for students.
  • Written by authors of varying cultural backgrounds, perspectives, and genders.
Advanced Placement English Language anchor texts page example

Develop College Readiness Skills

Throughout the coursebook, skill-building activities develop college readiness.

Students develop analytical revision skills and use the new skills to edit and add content to improve the anchor student draft. 

Advanced Placement English Language Evaluating Writing page examples

 Each unit starts with basic composition skills and builds to an end-of-unit Composing On Your Own activity. This gives students an opportunity to use what they have just learned in their own writing.

Advanced Placement English Language Composing On Your Own page example

 

 Apply What You Have Learned activities give students the opportunity to use the critical reading skills they have developed using the anchor text and apply the skills to analyzing a new text.

Advanced Placement English Language Apply What You Have Learned page example

 

Join the Conversation activities provide explicit, step-by-step guidance for responding to the free response (FRQ) prompts as included on the exam.

In one unit, students may begin a rhetorical analysis, and then in the next unit revise that argument, and then revisit and extend it again in the next unit. Each time students revisit and revise their writing they are applying the skills they are learning along the way.

Advanced Placement English Language Join the Conversation page example

Pacing Guide with Differentiation

A day-by-day pacing guide includes recommended pacing based on differentiated learning plans for students.

Plan 1—adjust the days per unit for students who need more foundational work.

Plan 2—adjust the days per unit for students with experience reading complex texts and writing analysis and argument, but who may need some more support.

Plan 3—adjust the days per unit for students with a strong foundation who may benefit from time with more difficult skills and content.

Advanced Placement English Language pacing guide
 
Advanced Placement English Language Teacher Resource examples

 

Extensive Teacher Support

Teacher materials include:

  • An Answer Key.
  • Customizable PowerPoints of all images shown in the Student Edition.
  • Student reproducibles—45 pages to reinforce the composition instruction with sentence frames, text frames, and numerous charts and drafting organizers.
  • Inquiry Activities for Writing Rhetorically by Jennifer Fletcher, Professor of English at California State University and the author of several popular books on rhetoric and argumentation.
  • Correlation to the College Board CED.
  • Two additional full-length practice tests with rationales.
  • A pacing guide.
  • A free eBook library of classic works (Interactive Edition only).

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