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How the Teacher’s Edition Supports You

Ideas Aligns to the CED

Our goal with Ideas in Literature is to provide teachers and students with a Supports success on the
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complete curriculum that prepares them for success on the AP® Exam and in future AP Exam and in future
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coursework. The basic premise of Ideas in Literature is to take the AP® Course coursework.
Framework skill units as a fundamental framework and build a complete curriculum
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that includes literary analysis, interpretation, and argumentation instruction, texts,
questions, modeling, activities, writing instruction, exam skill building, exam
practice, and more. The result is a program that provides a guided path to build
skills systematically over the course of the year, starting simple and increasing in
complexity unit over unit.

In Ideas in Literature, the Big Idea workshops correspond with and are aligned to Addresses each Big Idea
those in the AP® English Literature and Composition Course Framework. This within the AP Course
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careful alignment results in a scaffolded and sequenced approach that prioritizes the Framework.
development of skills so that students are prepared to be successful when they reach
the unit where the standard must be attained. Some especially important or difficult
concepts continue to be reinforced in later units, which allows for smoothing out
some learning leaps that might be too dramatic for some students. After all, the
framework indicates when a skill should be assessed by the AP® Classroom Personal
Progress Checks, not necessarily when skills should be first introduced. That’s an
important distinction to keep in mind as you consider the carefully scaffolded
instruction that is laid out step-by-step in this program.

As is often the case when going from a conceptual framework to a practical
application in the classroom, some minor additions were necessary. For example, the Solves some presentation
challenges in the CED.
AP® Framework expects that students understand the concept of archetypes without
necessarily having to memorize a list of archetypes. Ideas in Literature provides
students with examples and illustrations as well as lists to help them build their
understanding. Teachers then have the flexibility to pick and choose examples that
are most appropriate for their students.

Watch the “Getting Started” video for an introduction to this Teacher’s
Edition and the many resources created to support you and your students.

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