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Welcome to Ideas in Literature

Ideas are at the heart of the AP® English Literature Course. As AP® teachers, one of our
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primary goals is to help students read and write about ideas rather than topics. Our approach
is simple: in everything we do, we ask students to move from the concrete to the abstract;
from the literal to the figurative. So, from every Big Idea workshop, to every text students
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read and analyze, to every literary argument they write, students are focused on building
interpretations about important ideas and themes that are part of the human experience.
The foundation of Ideas in Literature is built upon a spiraled and sequenced skill-based
program for AP® English Literature deeply aligned to the nine units in the AP® English
Literature and Composition Course and Exam Description (CED). Each of the nine units
includes four essential components.
The Big Idea Workshops introduce the core concepts of the course that are outlined in
the AP® CED and help students build analytical and interpretative reading skills.
The Ideas in Literature sections are small thematic collections of practice texts that
also help students understand the ideas at the heart of timeless literature.
The Composition Workshops help students apply the skills of the unit to their own writing.
The Preparing for the AP® Exam sections help build FRQ writing skills and give
students experience with AP®-style MCQs.

That’s it. Four clear sections with distinct purposes

As we wrote this book, we wanted to make sure we made a book that was simple for you to
use but also allowed enough flexibility to suit your needs.

Unit 2: Analyzing Comparisons and Representations
Instructional Length Path A Path B Path C Block
Unit 2: Analyzing Comparisons and Representations Purpose Lexile* (words) 13 Days 10 Days 8 Days Schedule
Planning Pages Big Idea Workshop: Associations and Emphasis Direct 2 Days 1 Day 1 Day 5 Days
1/2 Day
Figurative Language — Instruction
Associations and Frank X Walker Guided Text n/a 268
Emphasis
Unit 2 Resources “Death by Basketball” (poem)
Teacher and Student Resources Audio/Visual Resources Grammar Resources Arisa White Practice Text n/a 286
“It was easier to manage” (poem)
Unit 2: Planning the Unit Video TRM Lit Links Adaptive Grammar Quizzing Big Idea Workshop: Similes and Metaphors Direct 2 Days 1 Day 1 Day 1/2 Day
LearningCurve

TRM Unit 2: Graphic Organizers and Handouts Digital Collection of Figurative Language — Instruction
Full-Length Works Grammar Exercises and Comparisons
TRM Unit 2: ELL Essential Guide Podcasts Amanda Gorman Practice Text n/a 541
TRM Unit 2: AP ® Alignment Tables “In This Place (An American
Lyric)” (poem)
TRM Unit 2: Suggested Responses to Questions Assessment Resources AP ® Classroom Resources e.e. cummings Guided n/a 148
Digital Comprehension
TRM Unit 2: Comprehension Checks Checks “she being Brand” (poem) Practice
TRM Classroom Posters Unit 2 Guide Ideas in Literature: John Donne Independent n/a 235 2 Days 2 Days 1 Day 1 Day
Test Bank: AP ® -Style
TRM Editable Pacing Guides Unit 2 Mini Exam Unit 2 Faculty Lecture Thought and Feeling “A Valediction: Forbidding Practice
Unit 2 AP ® Daily Videos Mourning” (poem)
TRM Editable Rubrics TRM Unit 2: Scored Student Sample
TRM Lexile Text Complexity Measures AP ® Essays Unit 2 AP ® Topic Quizzes Jon Loomis n/a 415
Unit 2 Personal Progress Check “Deer Hit” (poem)
TRM Full Correlation to the AP ® Course
Framework Nafissa Thompson-Spires 1250L 4498
“Fatima, the Biloquist: A
Transformation Story” (from The
Heads of the Colored People)
Ideas in Literature: Andrew Marvell Independent n/a 300
Planning and Pacing Opportunity and Loss “To His Coy Mistress” (poem) Practice
Natasha Trethewey n/a 255
Path A is for underprepared students, focusing more on earlier units of the course. “Pilgrimage” (poem)
Path B faithfully follows the College Board’s suggested pacing for the course. Sofia Romero 590L 2797
Path C is an accelerated pathway, focusing more on later units of the course. “Cloud Nine” (short story)
Block Schedule is a pacing for yearlong, alternating-day, or semester-blocked courses. Literary Argumentation: Justifying a Thesis through a Composition 2 Days 2 Days 1 Day 0 Day
Writing about Tone Line of Reasoning Workshop
Block
Instructional Length Path A Path B Path C
Unit 2: Analyzing Comparisons and Representations Purpose Lexile* (words) 13 Days 10 Days 8 Days Schedule Preparing for the Free-Response Question: Formative n/a n/a 2 Days 1 Day 1 Day 1 Day
5 Days AP ® Exam Workshop Poetry Assessment
Big Idea Workshop: Perspective and Bias Direct 1 Day 1 Day 1 Day 1/2 Day FOCUS: Justifying a Thesis
Character Instruction through a Line of Reasoning
William Shakespeare
Aimee Nezhukumatathil Guided Text n/a 189 “Sonnet 73”
“On Listening to Your Teacher Joy Harjo
Take Attendance” (poem) “Perhaps the World Ends Here”
Anne Bradstreet Practice Text n/a 363 Multiple-Choice Questions: n/a n/a
“Verses upon the Burning of our Prose Fiction
House” (poem)
W. E. B. Du Bois
Big Idea Workshop: Shifts and Contrasts Direct 1 Day 1 Day 1 Day 1/2 Day from “The Comet”
Structure Instruction Multiple-Choice Questions: n/a n/a
Lisa Parker Guided Text n/a 299 Poetry
“Snapping Beans” (poem) Walt Whitman
“A Noiseless Patient Spider”
John Crowe Ransom Practice Text n/a 183
“Janet Waking” (poem) Unit Assessment Use either PPC or Unit 2 mini Summative 1 Day 1 Day 1 Day 1 Day
exam in the Test Bank Assessment
*Lexile text complexity measurements are not applicable to poetry and drama.
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