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Teaching AP English Literature and Composition with
Literature & Composition, Third Edition
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Teaching AP English Literature and Composition offers wonderful challenge and great
pleasure to English teachers. The course is aligned to the College Board’s Course and
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Exam Description (CED), offering accessible literature that features voices and themes
that are still vitally relevant to our lives. Relevant, too, are the reading and writing skills
your students will develop throughout this course. Literature & Composition: Essential
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Voices, Essential Skills for the AP Course, Third Edition will offer your students
recursive opportunities to practice skills, while being exposed to literature from different
time periods, cultures, and voices. Chapters 1–3 cover the reading and writing skills key
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to success in the course and on the AP Exam using a genre approach that also aligns
to the FRQ prompts: short fiction, poetry, and longer fiction and drama. Chapters 4–9
are anthology chapters arranged by timeless themes that help bring the readings to life.
Each of these thematic chapters offers a wide variety of classic and contemporary
writing — including fiction, poetry, drama, nonfiction, visual texts, and several full-length
works — with guidance and support to think critically and write insightfully about
great literature.
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Nine chapters in this edition make it easy to align to the AP Course and Exam
Description’s nine units, while still offering the flexibility to teach thematically. The
strength of the first three chapters of instruction is that students will be exposed to all
the skills necessary for the course; teachers can provide a solid foundation from
which to build. Then, once students have been exposed to the necessary skills, the
course changes to a thematic approach, offering students an opportunity to make
valuable connections, which can ultimately lead to sophisticated writing. The themes
explored are:
• Identity and Culture
• Love and Relationships
• Conformity and Rebellion
• War and Peace
• Home and Family
• Tradition and Progress
Thus, regardless of whether you teach the course using the unit and genre
approach or thematically, you can adapt your program to this course, as well as
embed other major works you teach. Each reading in the book is accompanied by
questions that develop understanding, require close reading and analysis, inspire
deep thought, and provoke engaging class discussion. The activities in each chapter
will provide your students with a scaffolded approach to build the skills necessary for
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success on the AP Exam, as well as essential writing skills that will carry them
through college and beyond.
Each chapter’s Classic Text is followed by a Texts in Context section, which will
help students develop the nuance in their analysis needed for the sophistication point(s)
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offered in the AP Rubrics. Just as the skills are scaffolded, students will receive a
foundation in analysis and are then encouraged to examine literature through various
lenses, such as Psychological, Cultural, or Gendered. A balance of traditional/classical
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