Advanced Placement®
Developed by leading experts, AMSCO® texts offer the right level of subject depth and text complexity, so teachers can be assured that students get the accessible content they need to successfully navigate the AP® course and exam. Choose from titles in social studies, mathematics, and English.
Advanced Placement®—Social Studies
Achieve AP® Success with AMSCO® Coursebooks
- Make college-level content accessible to all your students without sacrificing the rigor required for success on the new AP® social studies exams.
- Can be used as your primary classroom resource when you submit your course audit to the College Board.
- Get the benefit of decades of AP® expertise with our team of veteran AP® teachers, Exam Readers, Test Item Writers, Table Leaders, APSI Instructors, and College Board Consultants.
- Develop collaboration, writing, and analytic skills with features such as Think As a Historian, Think As a Political Scientist, and Write as a Psychologist.
- Organized by the most current CEDs, AP® texts by AMSCO® deliver streamlined content with just the right level of subject depth and text complexity.
- Diagnose student performance and build exam confidence and competence with carefully crafted AP®-style multiple-choice and free-response questions correlated to specific learning objectives from the course framework.
- Check for student understanding and assess skills with a complete practice test that mirrors the directions, timing, question formats, and content scope of the actual AP® exam.
Advanced Placement®—English Language and Composition
Achieve AP® Success with AMSCO® Coursebooks
- Making college-level content accessible to high school students, which is vital to AP® success, is at the heart of this program.
- Get the benefit of decades of AP® expertise with our team of veteran AP® teachers, Exam Readers, Test Item Writers, Table Leaders, and College Board Consultants.
- Engage your students with unit anchor texts that serve as models of excellent rhetorical skills and offer opportunities for in-depth analysis.
—Nine anchor reading texts foster rereading and critical analysis.
—Nine anchor student drafts develop skills in evaluating writing. - 25+ sentence frames offer valuable scaffolding for text analysis and argumentative writing.
- Assess skills and build exam confidence and competence throughout the course with carefully crafted AP®-style multiple-choice questions, argumentation essay prompts, rhetorical analysis essay prompts, and synthesis prompts.
- Evaluate final preparation with a complete summative test that mirrors the directions, timing, question formats, and content scope of the actual AP® exam.
Advanced Placement®—Math
Achieve AP® success with AMSCO®
- Make college-level content accessible to all your students without sacrificing the rigor required for success.
- Get the benefit of decades of AP® expertise with our team of veteran AP® teachers, Exam Readers, Test Item Writers, Table Leaders, APSI Instructors, and College Board Consultants.
- Assess skills with an initial diagnostic test and build exam confidence and competence throughout the course with carefully crafted AP®-style model problems, scaffolded practice items, and independent practice items.
- Incorporate Mathematical Practices for AP® Calculus (MPACs) with teaching suggestions throughout the text.
- Evaluate final preparation with four full-length summative tests that mirror the directions, timing, question formats, and content scope of the actual AP® exam.
Of the People: A History of the United States
Comprehensive coverage of all topic areas for the AP® U.S. History course
- Explore the historical changes in the United States that occurred in culture, government, society, the economy, the environment, and the military. Primary source documents, portraits of notable Americans, and sample document-based questions (DBQs) help students prepare for the AP® U.S. History Course.
- FREE Student Companion Website provides students with note guides, flashcards, further reading, and quizzes.
- FREE Instructor Ancillary Resource Center offers the teacher a comprehensive instructor manual, test bank, and PowerPoint presentation resources.
- Volume 1 covers important events and themes from 1450–1877.
- Volume 2 covers important events and themes from 1865–present.
Human Geography
Comprehensive coverage of all topic areas for the AP® Human Geography course
- Examine how human behavior transforms the earth’s surface in response to changing social, cultural, and political needs. The text covers all topic areas for the AP® Human Geography course and examines current events and key theoretical areas such as environmental determinism and psychogeography.
- FREE Student Companion Website includes a comprehensive study guide, Google Earth tutorials, student quizzes, video links, and much more.
- FREE Instructor Materials include a comprehensive instructor manual, National Geographic videos online, image bank, and PowerPoint slides.
Principles of Psychology
Comprehensive coverage of all topic areas for the AP® Psychology course
- Teach students how to think critically and scientifically about the underlying mechanisms of behavior and cover all topics for the AP® Psychology course. In every chapter, important discoveries are explained, the impact on everyday life is examined, and current research is used to see each behavioral principle in action.
- FREE Student Companion Website provides students with note guides, flashcards, further reading, and quizzes.
- FREE Instructor Ancillary Resource Center offers the teacher a comprehensive instructor manual, test bank, and PowerPoint presentation resources.
How Writing Works: A Guide to Composing Genres
Develop transferrable skills for writing situations in school and beyond
- While most textbooks teach students how to write, this book teaches students how writing works with a problem-solving approach.
- Students learn how a new genre works by using a Genre Toolkit that asks three questions—"What is it?," "Who is it?," and "What's it for?"
- Students identify a genre's structure, audience, and purpose—a flexible set of strategies that they can apply to any writing situation.
- Integrated assignments show students how to construct a series of small assignments that lead up to a major writing project.
So What? The Writer's Argument
Write compelling arguments—essential for learning and communicating with others in school and beyond
- Gives writing a real audience, purpose, and context by teaching authentic styles, organizing structures, and persuasive moves.
- Introduces thought processes, motivations, and strategies scholars use to answer questions, solve problems, and defend ideas.
- Practical exercises focus on helping student writers answer the "So What?" question for themselves and their audience.
- Students practice or investigate what they learn immediately via short exercises.
- Clear guidance, examples, and practice explain how to construct compelling arguments, read and think critically, develop and revise drafts, collaborate, and make smart choices in style and arrangement.
Who Says? The Writer's Research
Give students the tools they need to conduct research in today's digital world
- This brief guide focuses on information literacy, showing students not only how to do research but also why it is important. Develop confident and compelling writing voices by teaching students how to synthesize their own ideas with the ideas of others.
- Students learn to think critically about ownership and authority and how to find and incorporate credible sources in their writing.
- Addresses research issues in the age of collaborative information sites like Wikipedia that can oversimplify information.
- An overview of academic citation styles features two sample research papers cited in both MLA and APA formats.
- Hands-on activities include visuals, charts, checklists, and exercises to help students improve their writing and research.
The Real World Reader: A Rhetorical Reader for Writers
Prepare students for an introductory college writing course
- A wide collection of both formal and popular writing from everyday life.
- Includes writings from essays, blogs, magazine articles, social media posts, newspaper editorials, public service announcements, advertisements, emails, and more.
- Divides the process of rhetorical analysis into logically sequenced steps that focus on five key concepts—purpose, audience, argument, voice, and credibility.
- Students are encouraged to use this step-by-step process in order to identify, analyze, and master the multiple modes of writing.
