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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.

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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.
 
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!
 
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
50 Essays: A Portable Anthology (High School Edition) by Samuel Cohen - Fifth Edition, 2017 from Macmillan Student Store

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) by Samuel Cohen - Fifth Edition, 2017 from Macmillan Student Store

50 Essays: A Portable Anthology (High School Edition)

Fifth Edition| 2017

Samuel Cohen

Table of Contents

Preface for Instructors

Alternative Tables of Contents

    By rhetorical mode

    By purpose

    By theme

    By clusters and paired readings

    By chronological order

Introduction for Students: Active Reading, Critical Thinking, and the Writing Process

Readings

    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 Tourist

Questions 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-Game

Documentation Guide

Glossary of Writing Terms

50 Essays: A Portable Anthology (High School Edition) by Samuel Cohen - Fifth Edition, 2017 from Macmillan Student Store

50 Essays: A Portable Anthology (High School Edition)

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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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