Bundle includes:
- Student Edition -
- Answer Key
A concise and accessible student book presenting the essential content of the latest AP English Literature and Composition course
Units Aligned to the AP Course and Exam Description
Unit 1 - Elements of Fiction (Short Fiction I)
Unit 2 - Poetry and the Shift (Poetry I)
Unit 3 - Extending the Scope (Longer Fiction or Drama I)
Unit 4 - Nuance and Complexity (Short Fiction II)
Unit 5 - Multiple Meanings (Poetry II)
Unit 6 - Disruption and Disparity (Longer Fiction or Drama II)
Unit 7 - Deepening complexity (Short Fiction III)
Unit 8 - Language and Ambiguity (Poetry III)
Unit 9 - Interactions of Elements (Longer Fiction or Drama III)
Anchor Texts
- One anchor reading text per unit to foster rereading and literary analysis
- Multiple secondary texts for instruction and analysis
Questions Based on AP Exam Formats
- Abundant multiple-choice questions
- Poetry analysis prompts
- Prose fiction analysis prompts
- Literary argument prompts
- Complete practice test modeled on the AP Exam
Features to Develop Skills Tested on the AP Exam
- Close Reading activities help develop literary analysis skills.
- Creating on Your Own activities give students an opportunity to use in their own creative writing what they have just learned.
- Reflect on the Essential Question features review key learning objectives.
- Apply What You Have Learned activities give students opportunities to use the literary analysis skills they have developed.
- Features on the writer's craft and the critic's craft strengthen creative and analytic skills.
- Extensive instruction on writing, with examples, scaffolds through the units.
A separate Teacher Resource includes an answer key, reproducible, contexts for the anchor text, and a framework and activities for conversations on justice and race.
