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Advanced Placement® Edition

English Literature & 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 to foster rereading and literary analysis, as well as multiple secondary texts for instruction and analysis.

  • Develop student competence through scaffolded activities in close reading, critical analysis, and interpretation of imaginative literature.

  • Assess skills and build exam confidence and competence throughout the course with carefully crafted AP®-style multiple-choice questions, as well as poetry analysis, prose fiction analysis, and literary 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. Students are then able to take these skills and apply them to any piece of literature or poetry.

  • 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.

  • Contextual information on the author of each anchor text is provided to add background knowledge and insight.

Advanced Placement English Literature anchor texts example

Develop College Readiness Skills

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

Students integrate content from different parts of the unit to their own creative writing. These activities encourage habitual revisiting, revising, and refining of writing—essential skills in school, college, and beyond. 
Advanced Placement English Literature Creating on Your Own section example

 

Students take the skills, knowledge, and understandings that have been practiced and apply them to a different text to provide more practice. This also helps the transfer of skills from the book and the course into the real world. 

Advanced Placement English Literature Apply What You Have Learned section example

These special sections occur once in each unit.

Writer’s Craft activities encourage new ways of thinking about an author’s creative choice and serve as strong models for student writing.

Critic’s Craft activities offer students the opportunity to strengthen their close reading and analytic skills while engaging in critical analysis of an author’s work.

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 Literature Pacing Guide

 

Advanced Placement English Literature Teacher Resource examples

 

Extensive Teacher Support

Teacher materials include:

  • An Answer Key.
  • Customizable PowerPoints of all images shown in the student book.
  • Student reproducibles—105 pages to reinforce the composition instruction with checklists, charts, and drafting organizers.
  • Poetry Gallery Guides supporting the poetry units with a biographical note about the poet, highlighted skills, discussion questions, and cross-connections written by Melissa Alter Smith, co-author of Teach Living Poets.
  • A 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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