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50 Essays: A Portable Anthology (High School Edition)
for the AP® English Language CourseFifth Edition| ©2017 Samuel Cohen
The carefully chosen selections in 50 Essays include both classic essays and high-interest, high-quality contemporary readings to hold students’ interest, inspire their writing, and prepare them to work with nonfiction at the college level. 50 Essays will help your AP® English Langu...
The carefully chosen selections in 50 Essays include both classic essays and high-interest, high-quality contemporary readings to hold students’ interest, inspire their writing, and prepare them to work with nonfiction at the college level. 50 Essays will help your AP® English Language students acquire the critical thinking and academic writing skills they need to succeed.
AP® is a trademark registered and/or owned by the College Board, which was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse, this product.
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The carefully chosen selections in 50 Essays include both classic essays and high-interest, high-quality contemporary readings to hold students’ interest, inspire their writing, and prepare them to work with nonfiction at the college level. 50 Essays will help your AP® English Language students acquire the critical thinking and academic writing skills they need to succeed.
AP® is a trademark registered and/or owned by the College Board, which was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse, this product.
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A superior blend of classic and contemporary writing
Introduce your students to a wide variety of voices and writing styles that are proven to keep students interested, including classic writers such as Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Jefferson, and Plato; and contemporary writers such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Amy Tan, and David Sedaris.
New! Questions on Rhetoric and Style
This edition of 50 Essays includes convenient and rigorous Questions on Rhetoric and Style in the center of the book to give students more opportunities to hone the analysis skills they’ll need on the AP® English Language Exam.
Teacher Support from Leading AP® English Language instructors
Written by Renee Shea, Lawrence Scanlon, and Stephen Klinge, the updated Teacher’s Manual contains extensive material focused on AP® English Language skills for each essay.
New to This Edition
New! Questions on Rhetoric and Style
This edition of 50 Essays includes convenient and rigorous Questions on Rhetoric and Style in the center of the book togive students more opportunities to hone the analysis skills they’ll need on the AP® English Language Exam.
This edition of 50 Essays includes convenient and rigorous Questions on Rhetoric and Style in the center of the book togive students more opportunities to hone the analysis skills they’ll need on the AP® English Language Exam.
New! 24 new readings
This edition includes fresh new readings in a variety of rhetorical modes, themes, and time periods, from writers such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Daniel Defoe, Malcolm Gladwell, David Sedaris, Virginia Woolf, and Stephen King!
This edition includes fresh new readings in a variety of rhetorical modes, themes, and time periods, from writers such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Daniel Defoe, Malcolm Gladwell, David Sedaris, Virginia Woolf, and Stephen King!
Updated! Teacher’s Manual for the AP® English Language and Composition Course
Written by Renee Shea, Lawrence Scanlon, and Stephen Klinge,, the updated Teacher’s Manual contains extensive material focused on AP® English Language skills for each essa
Written by Renee Shea, Lawrence Scanlon, and Stephen Klinge,, the updated Teacher’s Manual contains extensive material focused on AP® English Language skills for each essa

50 Essays: A Portable Anthology (High School Edition)
Fifth Edition| ©2017
Samuel Cohen
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50 Essays: A Portable Anthology (High School Edition)
Fifth Edition| 2017
Samuel Cohen
Table of Contents
Preface for InstructorsAlternative Tables of Contents By rhetorical mode By purpose By theme By clusters and paired readings By chronological orderIntroduction for Students: Active Reading, Critical Thinking, and the Writing ProcessReadings Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, To My One Love Sherman Alexie, The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me Gloria Anzaldúa, How to Tame a Wild Tongue Barbara Lazear Ascher, On Compassion James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son James Boswell, On War William f. Buckley Jr., Why Don’t We Complain? Alan Burdick, The Truth about Invasive Species Nicholas Carr, Is Google Making Us Stupid? Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Paranoid Style of American Policing Judith Ortiz Cofer, The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named María Daniel Defoe, The Education of Women Joan Didion, On Keeping a Notebook Frederick Douglass, Learning to Read and Write Brian Doyle, Joyas Voladores Barbara Ehrenreich, Serving in Florida Lars Eighner, On Dumpster Diving Stephanie Ericsson, The Ways We Lie Malcolm Gladwell, Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted Christina Henriquez, Lunch Langston Hughes, Salvation Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to Be Colored Me Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence Camden Joy, Surviving Sinatra Jamaica Kincaid, The Ugly TouristQuestions on Rhetoric and Style Stephen King, Reading to Write Verlyn Klinkenborg, Our Vanishing Night Audre Lorde, The Fourth of July Nancy Mairs, On Being a Cripple Malcolm X, Learning to Read John McPhee, The Search for Marvin Gardens Lydia Millet, Victor’s Hall Bharati Mukherjee, Two Ways to Belong in America George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant Plato, The Allegory of the Cave Richard Rodriguez, from Aria Mike Rose, "I Just Wanna Be Average" Oliver Sacks, My Periodic Table David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day Brent Staples, Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space John Jeremiah Sullivan, Feet in Smoke Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal Amy Tan, Mother Tongue Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience James Thurber, The Subjunctive Mood Miya Tokumitsu, In the Name of Love E. B. White, Once More to the Lake Colson Whitehead, The Loser Edit Viriginia Woolf, Professions for Women Dave Zirin, Pre-GameDocumentation GuideGlossary of Writing Terms

50 Essays: A Portable Anthology (High School Edition)
Fifth Edition| 2017
Samuel Cohen
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Samuel Cohen
Samuel Cohen (PhD, City University of New York) is Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri. He is the author of After the End of History: American Fiction in the 1990s, co-editor (with James Peacock) of The Clash Takes on the World: Transnational Perspectives on The Only Band that Matters, co-editor (with Lee Konstantinou) of The Legacy of David Foster Wallace, Series Editor of The New American Canon: The Iowa Series in Contemporary Literature and Culture, and has published in such journals as Novel, Clio, Twentieth-Century Literature, The Journal of Basic Writing, and Dialogue: A Journal for Writing Specialists. For Bedford/St. Martin's, he is author of 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology and coauthor of Literature: The Human Experience.

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Samuel Cohen
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