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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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