
Advanced Language & Literature
First EditionRenee H. Shea; John Golden; Lance Balla
©2016ISBN:9781319117276
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Regardless of their preparation level, Advanced Language & Literature is designed to take students to the next level, preparing them for AP® English classes. The text introduces students to thought-provoking literature and nonfiction texts. The instruction meets students 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.
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1 – Reading the World2 – Thinking about Literature3 – Thinking about Rhetoric and Argument4 – Thinking about Synthesis5 – Identity and Society What does "identity" mean? ● How is one’s identity formed? ● How do personal experiences affect our identity? ● To what extent does school emphasize conformity at the expense of individuality?Central Text George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant (nonfiction)Conversation: Changes and Transformations
- Jon Krakauer
- Alexandra Robbins
- The Carlisle Indian Boarding School (photographs)
- W.H. Auden,
- Martin Luther King Jr.,
- Gabriel García Márquez,
- Robert Kolker , Cheating Upwards (nonfiction)
- Chuck Klosterman , Why We Look the Other Way (nonfiction)
- Christopher Bergland, Cheaters Never Win (nonfiction)
- Brad Allenby, Is Human Enhancement Cheating? (nonfiction)
- Mia Consalvo, Cheating is Good For You (nonfiction)
- David Callahan , from The Cheating Culture (nonfiction)
- The Ethics of Photo Manipulation (photographs)
- Kamila Shamsie
- Jean de Crevecoeur
- Frederick Douglass
- Clive Thompson
- Ursula LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (fiction)
- Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron (fiction)
- Nikki Giovanni, Nikki-Rosa (poetry)
- Jane Shore , Happy Family (poetry)
- Pico Iyer, The Joy of Less (nonfiction)
- Chinua Achebe, Civil Peace (fiction)
- Wisława Szymborska , Utopia (poetry)
- Jon Meachem , Free to Be Happy (nonfiction)
- Isaac Asimov,