
Advanced Placement® Edition
English Language & Composition
Grades 11–12
Make college level content accessible to all students without sacrificing the rigor required for success
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Engage your students with carefully-selected unit anchor texts that serve as models and offer opportunities for in-depth analysis.
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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.
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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
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.

Develop College Readiness Skills
Throughout the coursebook, skill-building activities develop college readiness.
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.
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.


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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