Advanced Placement^®—English

The Promise and Challenge of Advanced Placement^®

Prepare Students for Success

• Patterned after the most current AP^® course and exam descriptions, AP^® editions provide scaffolded instruction, high-quality texts, accessible content, and multiple practice opportunities—all necessary for success on the AP^® exam.
• Students will learn to closely read a text, evaluate writing, and compose their own arguments—skills required in college, career, and civic life.
  
  

Detailed Alignment to College Board Frameworks

Successfully Navigate the AP^® Course and Exam

• Each text has been carefully correlated to the corresponding AP^® course and exam framework.
• Written and reviewed by College Board consultants and experienced instructors, our materials meticulously cover the entire course scope and expectations in the sequence provided by the College Board and within a concise narrative.
  
  

Making AP^® Accessible to ALL Students

A Commitment to Equity and Excellence

• Making college-level content accessible to high school students is of the utmost importance in ensuring success.
• Each text is carefully written and designed to ensure all students comprehend key ideas, learn and use concept vocabulary, and build their analytical and writing skills.
  
  

Scaffolded Learning Tasks

• AMSCO^® curriculum builds capacity, without sacrificing rigor, and supports students to develop the content knowledge and skills necessary to be successful.
• Essential unit questions help students focus on key learning targets.
• Challenging concepts are supported visually with engaging charts and graphics to improve student understanding.
• Close reading, evaluating writing, and On Your Own exercises provide targeted practice for all required skills.
• For AP^® Lang: Writing to the Prompt features guide students to write effective argumentative paragraphs, providing instruction that builds to a complete essay response.
• For AP^® Lit: Features on the writer's craft and the critic's craft strengthen creative and analytic skills.

Sample Pages

Sample Unit for AP^® Language
Sample Unit for AP^® Literature

Teacher Resource

Comprehensive Teacher Resource includes a complete answer key, with model responses to questions, and correlations to the skills and essential knowledge articulated in the Course and Exam Description. The resource also includes reproducible worksheets with scaffolded writing tasks.

For AP^® Lang: Relevant features on Justice and Race provide discussion questions and activities for each unit, and a framework for teaching writing through inquiry offers guidance in generating and researching meaningful questions.

Correlations

Content correlations to the College Board's course and exam descriptions may be found in the Teacher Resource.

Chapter and Unit AP^® Test Practice

All of the items in chapter and unit tests—multiple-choice and free-response—have been meticulously constructed to model the format and quality of those on the exam. Each question is tied to a specific learning objective, and teachers have access to scoring rubrics and model answers.

Summative Assessment

The Student Edition includes a complete practice exam mirroring the directions, timing, question formats, and content scope of the actual AP^® exam. Each test item is correlated to a specific learning objective from the exam framework, allowing teachers to quickly diagnose individual and class performance.

The Teacher Resource requires a school purchase order and school delivery.

Detailed Alignment to the Corresponding AP^® Curriculum Framework

The Student Edition and Teacher Resource have been carefully aligned to the AP^® course description and exam framework and continuously updated following course and exam revisions by the College Board.

Comprehensive correlations are available in the Teacher Resource.