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Look Inside Look Inside Advanced Language & Literature by Renee H. Shea; John Golden; Carlos Escobar; Lance Balla - Second Edition, 2021 from Macmillan Student Store
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Advanced Language & Literature

For Honors and Pre-AP® English CoursesSecond Edition| ©2021 Renee H. Shea; John Golden; Carlos Escobar; Lance Balla

Advanced Language & Literature is a textbook and supplements program designed to prepare all 10th grade students for success in both AP® English courses, college, and career.

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Strong Roots for AP®, College, and Beyond

Advanced Language & Literature is a textbook and supplements program designed to prepare all 10th grade students for success in both AP® English courses, college, and career.

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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Advanced Language & Literature

Second Edition| ©2021

Renee H. Shea; John Golden; Carlos Escobar; Lance Balla

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Look Inside Look Inside Advanced Language & Literature by Renee H. Shea; John Golden; Carlos Escobar; Lance Balla - Second Edition, 2021 from Macmillan Student Store

Advanced Language & Literature

Second Edition| 2021

Renee H. Shea; John Golden; Carlos Escobar; Lance Balla

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Making Meaning

Chapter 2 Understanding Literature

Chapter 3 Understanding Rhetoric and Argument

Chapter 4 Understanding Inquiry and Evidence-Based Argument

Chapter 5 Changing the World

Chapter 6 Self-Discovery

Chapter 7 The Individual in School

Chapter 8 Cultures, Conflicts, and Connections

Chapter 9 Our Robotic Future

Chapter 10 Utopia/Dystopia 

Chapter 11 Do the Right Thing

Chapter 12 Power

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Advanced Language & Literature

Second Edition| 2021

Renee H. Shea; John Golden; Carlos Escobar; Lance Balla

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Authors

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.

Look Inside Look Inside Advanced Language & Literature by Renee H. Shea; John Golden; Carlos Escobar; Lance Balla - Second Edition, 2021 from Macmillan Student Store

Advanced Language & Literature

Second Edition| 2021

Renee H. Shea; John Golden; Carlos Escobar; Lance Balla

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Advanced Language & Literature

Second Edition| 2021

Renee H. Shea; John Golden; Carlos Escobar; Lance Balla

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