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Texts of AP quality and rigor: beloved classics and exciting
®
new voices
You might have noticed as you reviewed the table of contents that the most high-
interest texts are found in the Big Idea workshops, while the Ideas in Literature
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sections have texts that are more traditionally AP®. This section is home to the
classic voices in the AP® Lit course: Anton Chekhov, Countee Cullen, John Donne,
Henrik Ibsen, Franz Kafka, Andrew Marvell, William Shakespeare, Mary Shelley,
Virginia Woolf, and more. These texts represent the richness and complexity of the
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texts that students will encounter on the AP® English Literature Exam. To prepare
your students fully for the rigor of the exam, we recommend that your students use
these texts as additional analysis practice after completing the Big Idea workshops.
How many texts should be assigned is up to you and your instructional goals.

Countee Cullen William Shakespeare Virginia Woolf
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We also recognize that many of our students today come from a wide range of
cultural backgrounds and therefore have built in several components to support
the need for culturally relevant teaching practices in the AP® Literature classroom.
Research has shown that students need to have opportunities to see themselves in
the texts they read, so you will find texts written by authors of varying backgrounds,
differing by race, ethnicity, culture, and gender in every chapter. Prominent
contemporary writers include Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jericho Brown, Anthony
Doerr, Martín Espada, Neil Gaiman, Amanda Gorman, Joy Harjo, Khaled Hosseini,
Barbara Kingsolver, Jhumpa Lahiri, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Naomi Shihab Nye, Delia
Owens, Gary Soto, Natasha Trethewey, Jesmyn Ward, Colson Whitehead, and others.
These texts show students that great literature continues to be written today, and
students can join the conversation around how to interpret this literature in the same
way they can with the classics.

Amanda Gorman Neil Gaiman Jhumpa Lahiri
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