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Regardless of their preparation level, Advanced Language & Literature is designed to take your students to the next level. Students will find that the instruction in this book meets them where they are with differentiated texts, step-by-step instruction, and brief accessible activities,...
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Prepares 10th grade and pre-AP® students for future success in AP® English classes.

Regardless of their preparation level, Advanced Language & Literature is designed to take your students to the next level. Students will find that the instruction in this book meets them where they are with differentiated texts, step-by-step instruction, and brief accessible activities, and then continues forward to challenge them to grow as readers, writers, and thinkers.

Features

A Careful Balance of Structure and Flexibility

As we worked to develop this resource for teachers of 10th grade ELA, we constantly asked ourselves how to balance providing a helpful guided structure that saves planning time, with allowing enough flexibility that teachers can make strategic choices to suit their interests and needs. Based on extensive customer feedback and with input from our Content Advisory Board, in this edition we’ve provided an even clearer structure and more guidance on how to create units, while still preserving a good deal of flexibility.

Fresh New Voices

This edition features dozens of new and engaging texts, including nonfiction by DeRay McKesson, Dolores Huerta, Yuval Noah Harari, Steven Hawking, and Toni Morrison, and literature by Lesley Nneka Arimah, Oliver De La Paz, Richard Blanco, Ha Jin, Li-Young Lee, N. K. Jemisin, Joy Harjo, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.

Activity-Driven Opening Skill-Building Chapters

These introductory chapters introduce the basic building blocks of success by introducing fundamental skills, modeling those skills, and practicing with brief accessible texts.

  • Chapter 1 Making Meaning introduces students to the basic tools of reading for understanding, interpretation, and style.

  • Chapter 2 Understanding Literature looks at the essential elements of fiction, poetry, and drama, and how they help authors deliver their message.

  • Chapter 3 Understanding Argument and Rhetoric takes students through the elements of argument and rhetoric, and how they’re used to persuade an audience.

  • Chapter 4 Understanding Inquiry and Evidence-Based Argument takes students step-by-step through the process of investigating an issue, informing an opinion, and summoning evidence to support a claim.

Simplified Thematic Chapter Structure

In a thematic book, you have the benefit of being able to hop between nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and more without leaving the theme behind. That’s exciting, but at this level there is something to be said for clarity and simplicity. With that in mind, each thematic chapter now focuses strictly on either literature or nonfiction. This makes things simpler for students and teachers. For those looking to cross-pollinate, we have include one text that breaks the mold, in a section we call Exploring Other Genres.

Skill-Focus in Thematic Chapters

The simplified thematic chapter structure allowed us to emphasize a particular skill in each thematic chapter, helping to spiral instruction throughout the year. Every chapter has a skill it focuses on developing in the following ways:

  • The Skill Workshop dives more deeply into a key academic skill, modeling with a brief approachable text, and guiding students through a series of skill-building activities and winding up with a formative assessment.

  • Accompanying each text in the chapter are Skill Focus questions that ask students to practice the skill and apply it in a variety of contexts.

  • The Writing Workshop takes students step-by-step through the process of writing an academic essay or persuasive argument as a culminating assessment. Each step is modeled using the chapter’s Central Text.

Clear and Effective Differentiation

  • Each thematic chapter now includes three Leveled Text Sections of increasing complexity. This allows teachers to differentiate texts for all levels of students, while still teaching the same theme and Skill Focus.

  • Extending Beyond the Text features accompanying most readings ask students to make connections to real-world issues, other texts, and their own lives. This feature can be used to challenge well-prepared students, or engage reluctant readers by showing the real-world relevance of the texts.

  • Key Context notes accompanying most texts help young readers navigate unfamiliar contexts that come with global literature and literature from other time periods. This support is key for lower-level readers and English Language Learners.

  • Vocabulary in Context questions with each text highlight not just challenging words, but words that are pivotal diction choices in the text, giving students experience with a wide variety of words and insight into how they can be used for effect.

In-Depth Questions and Prompts

The Understanding and Interpreting; Analyzing Language, Style, and Structure; and Topics for Composing questions following each piece are the unsung hero of this book. Compare them to a "normal" 10th grade book, and see the difference that probing, thoughtful, text-based analysis questions make. These questions don’t just lead to better analysis, they inspire students to think critically and write better.

New to This Edition

New! Chapter 1 Making Meaning introduces students to the basic tools of reading for understanding, interpretation, and style.

New! Chapter 4 Understanding Inquiry and Evidence-Based Argument takes students step-by-step through the process of investigating an issue, informing an opinion, and summoning evidence to support a claim.

New! Simplified Thematic Chapter Structure

In a thematic book, you have the benefit of being able to hop between nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and more without leaving the theme behind. That’s exciting, but at this level there is something to be said for clarity and simplicity. With that in mind, each thematic chapter now focuses strictly on either literature or nonfiction. This makes things simpler for students and teachers. For those looking to cross-pollinate, we have include one text that breaks the mold, in a section we call Exploring Other Genres.

New! Fresh New Voices

This edition features dozens of new and engaging texts, including nonfiction by DeRay McKesson, Dolores Huerta, Yuval Noah Harari, Steven Hawking, and Toni Morrison, and literature by Lesley Nneka Arimah, Oliver De La Paz, Richard Blanco, Ha Jin, Li-Young Lee, N. K. Jemisin, Joy Harjo, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.

New! Skill-Focus in Thematic Chapters

The simplified thematic chapter structure allowed us to emphasize a particular skill in each thematic chapter, helping to spiral instruction throughout the year. Every chapter has a skill it focuses on developing in the following ways:

  • The Skill Workshop dives more deeply into a key academic skill, modeling with a brief approachable text, and guiding students through a series of skill-building activities and winding up with a formative assessment.

  • Accompanying each text in the chapter are Skill Focus questions that ask students to practice the skill and apply it in a variety of contexts.

  • The Writing Workshop takes students step-by-step through the process of writing an academic essay or persuasive argument as a culminating assessment. Each step is modeled using the chapter’s Central Text.

Clear and Effective Differentiation

  • New! Each thematic chapter now includes three Leveled Text Sections of increasing complexity. This allows teachers to differentiate texts for all levels of students, while still teaching the same theme and Skill Focus.

  • New! Extending Beyond the Text features accompanying most readings ask students to make connections to real-world issues, other texts, and their own lives. This feature can be used to challenge well-prepared students, or engage reluctant readers by showing the real-world relevance of the texts.

"Advanced Language and Literature provides an invaluable foundation for students heading into AP® English courses. This textbook succeeds in not only helping students scaffold and recognize the importance of the role of language and literature in their lives, but enables them to develop and practice skills that they will use throughout their lives."
Saba Bennet, University HS, AZ

"For years, teachers have been gathering various texts that connect in theme, create conversation, target certain skills, and promote writing, and this textbook has done essentially that. It also offers appropriate texts for various levels, especially the honors students who tend to be left out when other textbooks are adopted. Not this time!"
Cinthia Sierra, Rivera HS, TX

"It is an excellent Honors/Pre-AP® text that nicely balances literature and nonfiction texts. It will prepare students for both AP® Lit and AP® Lang, because it covers the foundational information for both courses and sets students up for success regardless of whether they choose further literary study or further language/expository study."
Kristin Thompson, El Camino Fundamental HS, CA

"The main selling point for me is the way it articulates, explains, and conveys the parts that I care about most - the actual skills and concepts. That is the strength of this text, and it is also not watered down as I have seen in other Pre-AP® Lang. and Lit. textbooks."
Michael Park, Westerville Central HS, OH

"It really helps students build up to a better understanding of higher order thinking and it allows for some healthy conversations about global issues."
Stephanie Salazar, London HS, TX

"I love the organization of the book from focus on specific skills[...]into units curated by topic with essential questions. This text helps pull worthwhile, timely readings together that are useful for all types of analytical purposes."
Amy Rousseau, Bishop Gorman Catholic School, NV

"I like that for my Pre-AP® class, it prepares students for both literature analysis and rhetorical analysis as those two areas are the next possible focus for the AP classes they can choose from (Literature and Lang. and Comp). It focuses on a variety of text types and introduces students to different genres, authors, and topics."
Stephanie Smith, Trinity HS, CA

"The book offers a collection of timely and engaging texts and prompts that challenge students to view texts as fluid, dynamic pieces [...]. It’s one of  the few texts I’ve encountered that encourage a range of responses to texts, without guiding students to a single, editor-proscribed outcome."
John Peruggia, The Benjamin School, CA

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Table of Contents

Guided Tour of Advanced Language & Literature

 

1 Making Meaning

Knowing Yourself

Knowing Others

Making Connections, Asking Questions, and Annotating Texts

     A Model Annotation: Making Connections, Asking Questions

Reading for Understanding, Interpretation, and Style

     Reading for Understanding

     Reading for Interpretation

     Reading for Style

     A Model Analysis: Making Meaning

Considering Context

Culminating Activity

 

2 Understanding Literature

Thinking Abstractly about Literature

Theme in Literature

     Interpreting Theme

Elements of Fiction

     Point of View

     Characterization

     Plot and Conflict

     Setting

     Symbolism

     A Model Analysis: Connecting Elements of Fiction to Theme

Speaking & Listening Focus--Discussing Interpretations of Literature

Elements of Drama

     Plot

     Character

     Setting

     Symbolism

Elements of Poetry

     Making Meaning – Looking for Shifts

     Speaker

     Structure

     Sound

     A Model Analysis: Connecting Elements of Poetry to Theme

Language and Style

     Diction

     Syntax

     Figurative Language

     Imagery

     Analyzing Style and Tone

     A Model Analysis: Connecting Style to Tone

     Analyzing Style and Theme

     A Model Analysis: Connecting Style to Theme

Culminating Activity

 

3 Understanding Rhetoric and Argument

Changing Minds, Changing the World

Arguable Claims

The Rhetorical Situation of an Argument

Using Evidence

     Personal Experience and Anecdotes

     Facts and Data/Statistics

     Scholarly Research and Expert Opinion

     Detecting Bias

Rhetorical Appeals

     Logos

     Pathos

     Ethos

Counterarguments

     Speaking & Listening Focus — Differences of Opinion 　

Logical Fallacies

Interpreting an Argument

Interpreting Visual Arguments

     Images as Rhetoric

Language and Style in an Argument

     Connotative Language

     Figurative Language

     Parallel Structure

     Rhetorical Questions

     A Model Analysis: Connecting Content and Style

Culminating Activity

4 Understanding Inquiry and Evidence-Based Argument

The Process of Inquiry

Identify and Focus

Investigate and Analyze

     Approaching a Source

     Examining Sources

Draw Connections

     Considering Sources in Conversation

Speaking and Listening Focus - Considering Sources in Conversation

     Researching Additional Sources

Integrate and Present

     Using Commentary

     Using Visuals as Evidence

     Integrating Counterarguments

     Citing Sources and Using Quotations

Reflecting on the Inquiry Process

Culminating Activity

　

5 Changing the World (nonfiction)

Skill Workshop – Understanding Personal Experience in Argument

     Malala Yousafzai, Speech to the United Nations Youth Assembly


Section 1

Bill Bystricky, When 16-Year-Olds Vote, We All Benefit

David Hogg, The Road to Change

Amber Tamblyn, I'm Not Ready for the Redemption of Men

Section 2

Denise Cummins, How to Get People to Change Their Minds

Michelle Alexander, What if We're All Coming Back?

Dolores Huerta, from Speech at UCLA

Central Text DeRay Mckesson, Bully and the Pulpit

Section 3

Nelson Mandela, from An Ideal for Which I Am Prepared to Die

Martin Luther King Jr., I Have Been to the Mountaintop

Virginia Woolf, Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid

Exploring Other Genres

Luisa Valenzuela, The Censors (fiction)

Writing Workshop – Using Personal Experience in an Argument

Continuing the Conversation – Changing the World

6 Self-Discovery (literature)

Skill Workshop – Understanding Character and Theme in Prose

     Judith Cofer, Abuela Invents the Zero

Gathering Textual Evidence

     Activity – Gathering Textual Evidence

Organizing and Analyzing Textual Evidence

     Activity – Organizing and Analyzing Textual Evidence

Analyzing Characterization

     Activity – Writing a Character Analysis

Connecting Characterization and Theme

Culminating Activity

Section 1

Faith Erin Hicks, from Friends with Boys

Chen Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

Kristen Iskandrian, Good with Boys

Section 2

Billy Collins, On Turning Ten

Amy Silverberg, Suburbia!

William Shakespeare, The Seven Ages of Man

Central Text Amy Tan, Rules of the Game

Section 3

Oliver De La Paz, In Defense of Small Towns

Lesley Nneka Arimah, Glory

James Joyce, Eveline

Exploring Other Genres

Trevor Noah, from Born a Crime (nonfiction)

Writing Workshop – Writing an Analysis of Character and Theme

Continuing the Conversation – Self-Discovery

 

7 The Individual in School (nonfiction)

Skill Workshop – Understanding Rhetorical Situation

     Adam Grant, What Straight-A Students Get Wrong

Section 1

Peter Gray, from Children Educate Themselves: Lessons from Sudbury Valley

Dyan Watson, A Message from a Black Mom to Her Son

Mindy Kaling, Don't Peak in High School

Section 2

Maya Angelou, from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Alexandra Robbins, from The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth

Zitkala-Ša, from School Days of an Indian Girl

Central Text John Taylor Gatto, Against School

Section 3

Rebecca Solnit, Abolish High School

Yuval Noah Harari, Education: Change Is the Only Constant

Albert Einstein, from On Education

Exploring Other Genres

Lisa Parker, Snapping Beans (poetry)

Writing Workshop – Writing a Rhetorical Analysis Essay

Continuing the Conversation – The Individual in School

 

8 Cultures, Conflicts, and Connections (literature)

Skill Workshop – Understanding a Poem’s Speaker and Meaning

     Claude McKay, The Tropics in New York

Section 1

Sandra Cisneros, No Speak English

Amit Majmudar, Dothead

Margarita Engle, Unnatural

Section 2

Tahira Naqvi, Paths Upon Water

Franny Choi, Choi Jeong Min

Richard Blanco, My Father in English

Central Text Eavan Boland, An Irish Childhood in England: 1951

Section 3

Ha Jin, Children as Enemies

Natasha Trethewey, Enlightenment

Li-Young Lee, For a New Citizen of These United States

Exploring Other Genres

Viet Thanh Nguyen, America, Say My Name (nonfiction)

Writing Workshop – Writing an Analysis of a Poem’s Speaker

Continuing the Conversation – Cultures, Conflicts, and Connections

 

9 Our Robotic Future (nonfiction)

Skill Workshop – Understanding Evidence in Argument

Lela London, This Is What The Future Of Robots Might Do To Humanity

Section 1

Evan Selinger and Woodrow Hartzog, The Dangers of Trusting Robots

Arthur House, The Real Cyborgs

Alex Williams, Will Robots Take our Children's Jobs?

Section 2

Federico Guerrini, By Giving Robots 'Personhood' Status, Humanity Risks to Be Demoted to the Rank of a Machine

Kevin Kelly, from Better Than Human

Rosa Brooks, In Defense of Killer Robots

Central Text Sherry Turkle, Why These Friendly Robots Can’t Be Good Friends to Our Kids

Section 3

Francis Fukuyama, Transhumanism

Stephen Hawking, Will AI Outsmart Us?

Kate Darling, Extending Legal Protections to Social Robots

Exploring Other Genres

Ken Liu, The Perfect Match (fiction)

Writing Workshop – Writing an Evidence-Based Argument

Continuing the Conversation – Our Robotic Future

 

10 Utopia/Dystopia (literature)

Skill Workshop – Understanding Style and Meaning in Prose

     Cory Doctorow, Printcrime

Section 1

Ray Bradbury and Tim Hamilton, from Fahrenheit 451

N.K. Jemisin, Valedictorian

Naomi Shihab Nye, World of the Future, We Thirsted

Section 2

Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

Nnedi Okorafor, Spider the Artist

Joy Harjo, Once the World Was Perfect

Central Text Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron

Section 3

Ursula Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, The Era

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, from Herland

Exploring Other Genres

Rutger Bregman, from Utopia for Realists (nonfiction)

Writing Workshop – Writing a Close Analysis of Prose

Continuing the Conversation – Utopia/Dystopia

 

11 Do the Right Thing (nonfiction)

Skill Workshop – Understanding Style and Tone in Argument

     Jose Antonio Vargas, What America Looks Like from a Jail in South Texas

Section 1

Toni Morrison, The Work You Do, the Person You Are

Laura Hercher, Designer babies aren’t futuristic. They’re already here.

Marie Colvin, Truth at All Costs

Section 2

Monica Hesse, The Case of the Photoshopped CEOs

Michael J. Sandel, Are We All in This Together?

Chuck Klosterman, Why We Look the Other Way

Central Text Jamaica Kincaid, from A Small Place

Section 3

David Callahan, from The Cheating Culture

Sam Harris, from Lying

George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant

Exploring Other Genres

William Stafford, Traveling through the Dark (poetry)

Writing Workshop – Writing an Analysis of Tone

Continuing the Conversation – Do the Right Thing

 

12 Power (literature)

Skill Workshop – Understanding Figurative Language and Meaning in Poetry

     William Shakespeare, Sonnet 94 and Sonnet 29

Section 1

W. Haden Blackman and Richard Pace, Ghost

Hernando Tellez, Lather and Nothing Else

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias

Section 2

Central Text William Shakespeare, Macbeth

Section 3

Emma Donoghue, The Tale of the Kiss

Warsan Shire, Backwards

Zora Neale Hurston, Sweat

Exploring Other Genres

Elena Ferrante, A Power of Our Own (nonfiction)

Writing Workshop – Writing an Analysis of Figurative Language in a Poem

Continuing the Conversation – Power

　

Revision Workshops

    1. Effective topic sentences and unified paragraphs

    2. Effective thesis and essay structure

    3. Balanced evidence and commentary

    4. Appropriate evidence and support

    5. Effective transitions

    6. Effective syntax

    7. Effective diction

    8. Effective introductions and conclusions

　

Grammar Workshops

A Guide to Grammar Terms

    1. Passive and Active Voice

    2. Adjectives and Adverbs

    3. Capitalization Errors

    4. Comma Splices and Run-Ons

    5. Subordination and Coordination

    6. Homophones

    7. Fragments

    8. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers

    9. Parallelism

    10. Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

    11. Pronoun Reference

    12. Shifts in Person and Number

    13. Shifts in Verb Tense

    14. Subject-Verb Agreement

    15. Nonstandard Verb Forms

Vocabulary and Word Roots

Guide to MLA Documentation Style

Glossary/Glosario

Credits

Index

Renee H. Shea

Renée H. Shea was professor of English and Modern Languages and Director of Freshman Composition at Bowie State University in Maryland. A College Board® faculty consultant for more than thirty years in AP® Language, Literature, and Pre-AP® English, she has been a reader and question leader for both AP® English exams. Renée served as a member of the Development Committee for AP® Language and Composition and the English Academic Advisory Committee for the College Board®, as well as the SAT® Critical Reading Test Development Committee. She is coauthor of The Language of Composition, Literature & Composition, Advanced Language & Literature, and Conversations in American Literature, as well as two volumes in the NCTE High School Literature series (on Amy Tan and Zora Neale Hurston).

John Golden

John Golden teaches at Cleveland High School in Portland, Oregon. He was an advisor to the College Board® 6–12 English Language Arts Development Committee. An English teacher for over twenty years, John has developed curriculum and led workshops for the College Board’s Pacesetter and SpringBoard® English programs. He is the author of Reading in the Dark: Using Film as a Tool in the English Classroom (NCTE, 2001) and Reading in the Reel World: Teaching Documentaries and Other Nonfiction Texts (NCTE, 2006), and the producer of Teaching Ideas: A Video Resource for AP® English (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2008) and The NCTE Centennial Film: Reading the Past, Writing the Future (2010).

Carlos Escobar

Carlos Escobar is the AP® Program Director at Felix Varela Senior High School in Miami, Florida, where he has taught since 2000. Carlos has been a College Board® Advisor for AP® English Literature and Composition, member of the AP® English Literature Test Development Committee, presenter at various local and national AP® workshops and conferences, and mentor to new AP® English teachers. As part of the College Board®’s Instructional Design Team, Carlos contributed to the development, review, and dissemination of the 2019 *AP*® *English Literature and Composition Course and Exam Description*. He also reviews the PSAT and SAT examinations for the College Board®. On behalf of the College Board®, Carlos designs and delivers daily, live YouTube lessons streamed globally to prepare students for the 2020 AP® exam. Carlos has co-authored three Teacher’s Editions of AP® and Pre-AP® textbooks from Bedford, Freeman and Worth: *Literature & Composition*, Advanced Language & Literature, and Foundations of Language & Literature*. Most recently, he co-authored the second edition of Advanced Language & Literature, and he is currently co-authoring the third edition of Literature & Composition.

Lance Balla

Lance Balla is former curriculum developer and current principal at Everett High School in Washington. He was an AP® teacher for almost twenty years, and a College Board® Faculty Consultant for over ten years, as well as being a reader and table leader for the AP® Literature Exam. Lance is a member of the College Board® English Academic Advisory Committee, has been a co-author on the College Board’s Springboard® program and was a member of the SAT® Critical Reading Test Development Committee. His awards and recognitions include the White House Distinguished Teacher Award, the Teacher Recognition Award from the U.S. Department of Education, the Washington State Award for Professional Excellence, and the Woodring College of Education Award for Outstanding Teaching.

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