At the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Convention in San Antonio, English teachers were on the lookout for Pre-AP materials. Amsco to the rescue! Our integrated English language arts series Currents in Literature teaches students the kinds of critical-thinking skills in literature, language, and writing that are essential for success on the AP Literature and Composition and the AP Language and Composition exams.
Currents in Literature contains four books—World Volume, British Volume, American Volume, Genre Volume; each book uses engaging classic and contemporary literature selections to teach reading, writing, vocabulary, grammar, and spelling.
Here are some of the features of the series that will help your students get AP-ready.
· Literature. Reading Strategy Lessons guide students through various texts using techniques such as understanding literary devices, using paraphrasing and thinking aloud to understand difficult texts, and comparing and contrasting ideas in a text. Journal and essay prompts have students write responses to one or more texts.
· Writing. Writing lessons teach students how to compose expository, persuasive, compare/contrast, and cause-and-effect essays, as well as personal narratives and poetry. Students learn how to analyze a prompt, form a position, use supporting evidence, write a strong thesis, and more.
· Grammar lessons include topics such as sentence structures, eliminating fragments and run-ons, nouns, pronouns, verbs, modifiers, punctuation, and capitalization.
· Literature. Reading Strategy Lessons guide students through various texts using techniques such as understanding literary devices, using paraphrasing and thinking aloud to understand difficult texts, and comparing and contrasting ideas in a text. Journal and essay prompts have students write responses to one or more texts.
· Writing. Writing lessons teach students how to compose expository, persuasive, compare/contrast, and cause-and-effect essays, as well as personal narratives and poetry. Students learn how to analyze a prompt, form a position, use supporting evidence, write a strong thesis, and more.
· Grammar lessons include topics such as sentence structures, eliminating fragments and run-ons, nouns, pronouns, verbs, modifiers, punctuation, and capitalization.
The series also contains works by amazing writers, such as...
Niccolò Machiavelli, Anchee Min, Victor Hugo, Anita Desai, Carl Jung, Friedrich Nietzsche, Naguib Mahfouz, Chinua Achebe, Antonio López Ortega, Laura Esquivel, bell hooks, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dorothy West, Barbara Kingsolver, N. Scott Momaday, William Shakespeare, Jane Jacobs, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Rainer Maria Rilke, Primo Levi, Leonardo da Vinci, Penelope Lively, James Joyce, William Wordsworth, Kazuo Ishiguro, Edna O’Brien, Jonathan Swift, H.G. Wells, Daniel Defoe
Good luck!
Lauren
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