Foundations of Language and Literature
First Edition ©2019 Renee H. Shea; John Golden; Tracy Scholz
Authors
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Renee Shea
Renée H. Shea was professor of English and Modern Languages and director of freshman composition at Bowie State University in Maryland, where she taught graduate seminars in rhetoric. A College Board faculty consultant for more than thirty years in AP® Language and Literature, and Pre-AP® English, she has been a reader and question leader for both AP® English exams. Renée served as a member on many committees for the College Board, including the AP® Language and Composition Development Committee, the English Academic Advisory Committee, and the SAT Critical Reading Test Development Committee. She is co-author of Literature & Composition, American Literature & Rhetoric, Conversations in American Literature, Advanced Language & Literature, and Foundations of Language & Literature, as well as volumes on Amy Tan and Zora Neale Hurston for the NCTE High School Literature Series. Renée continues to write about contemporary authors for publications such as World Literature Today, Poets & Writers, and Kenyon Review. Her recent publications focused on Celeste Ng, Imbolo Mbue, Namwali Serpell, Manuel Muñoz, and Ohio’s 2020–2025 poet laureate, Kari Gunter-Seymour.
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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 also a co-author of the Bedford, Freeman and Worth textbook Foundations of Language & Literature and the producer of Teaching Ideas: A Video Resource for AP® English. He is also the author of Reading in the Dark: Using Film as a Tool in the English Classroom and Reading in the Reel World: Teaching Documentaries and Other Nonfiction Texts, the producer and co-host of the podcast Third Rail Classroom, and the producer of The NCTE Centennial Film: Reading the Past, Writing the Future.
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Tracy Scholz
Tracy Scholz has been an educator for over 20 years. She has experience as an English teacher, department specialist, district interventionist, and served as the Associate Director for the Teacher Education Program at Rice University. She earned her doctoral degree in 2012 from the University of Houston in Curriculum and Instruction, and currently serves as the K-12 Advanced Academics Coordinator for Alief ISD.
Table of Contents
1 STARTING THE CONVERSATION
Building a Classroom Community
Thinking about Voice
Active Listening
Public Speaking
Culminating Activity
2 WRITING
The Power of the Pen
Voice and Tone
Precise Word Choice
Strong Sentences
Clear Punctuation
Well-Built Paragraphs
Culminating Activity
3 READING
Defining Texts
Active Reading
Reading for Understanding
Reading for Interpretation
Reading for Style
Reading Visual Texts
Culminating Activity
4 USING SOURCES
Sources as Conversation
Types of Sources
Finding Sources
Evaluating Sources
Keeping Track of Sources
Using Sources in Your Own Writing
Culminating Activity
5 FICTION
ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF FICTION
(Section 1) Ray Bradbury, The Veldt
Sherman Alexie, from The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian
Lena Coakley, Mirror Image
(Section 2) Etgar Keret, What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?
Edgar Allen Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game
Angela Flournoy, Lelah
CENTRAL TEXT Amy Tan, Two Kinds
CONVERSATION – Motivation: The Key to Success?
Malcolm Gladwell, from Outliers
Amy Chua, from The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Adam Grant, How to Raise a Creative Child
Daniel Pink, from Drive
Andre Agassi, from Open
(Section 3) Nadine Gordimer, Once Upon a Time
Kirstin Valdez Quade, Nemecia
Kate Chopin, Story of an Hour
Luke Jones & Anna Mill, Square Eyes (graphic novel)
WORKSHOP 1: WRITING FICTION
WORKSHOP 2: ANALYZING FICTION
6 ARGUMENT
ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF ARGUMENT
(Section 1) Lisa L. Lewis, Why School Should Start Later in the Day
NY Times Editorial Board, End the Gun Epidemic in America
Thomas Sowell, History Shows the Folly of Disarming Lawful People
Marc Bekoff, Why Was Harambe the Gorilla in a Zoo in the First Place?
(Section 2) Steve Almond, Is It Immoral to Watch the Super Bowl?
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Paranoid Style of American Policing
Tina Rosenberg, Labeling the Danger in Soda
Leonard Pitts, September 13, 2001: Hatred is Unworthy of Us
Barack Obama, Hiroshima Speech
CENTRAL TEXT Peggy Orenstein, What’s Wrong with Cinderella?
CONVERSATION – How Does the Media Shape Our Ideas about Gender?
Madeline Messer, Im a 12-year-old girl. Why dont the characters in my apps look like me?
Terryn Hall, When I Saw Prince, I Saw a Vital New Black Masculinity
Vanessa Friedman, Don’t Ban Ads of Skinny Models
Geena Davis Institute, Gender Bias Without Borders
Kali Holloway, Toxic Masculinity Is Killing Men: The Roots of Male Trauma
Jack O’Keefe, How ‘Master of None’ Subverts Stereotypical Masculinity by Totally Ignoring It
(Section 3) Daniel Engber, Kill All the Mosquitoes
Sarah Kessler, Why Online Harassment Is Still Ruining Lives—and How We Can Stop It
Mark Twain, Advice to Youth
Cesar Chavez, Letter from Delano
WORKSHOP 1: WRITING ARGUMENT
WORKSHOP 2: ANALYZING ARGUMENT
7 POETRY
ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF POETRY
(Section 1) Jose Olivarez, Home Court
Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
Suheir Hammad, What I Will
Rachel Richardson, Transmission
Dana Gioa, Money
Billy Collins, Flames
Jenni Baker, You American Boy AND Find Your Way
(Section 2) Nate Marshall, Harold’s Chicken Shack #86
Naomi Shihab Nye, Kindness
Michael Ondaatje, Sweet Like A Crow
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18: “Shall I Compare Thee…”
Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool
David Tomas Martinez, In Chicano Park
Emily Dickinson, Because I Could Not Stop For Death
Amit Majmudar, T. S. A.
Ha Jin, Ways of Talking
CENTRAL TEXT Langston Hughes, Let America Be America Again
CONVERSATION – What Does the Statue of Liberty Mean to Us Now?
Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus
Concord Oral History Program, Remembrances for the 100th Anniversary of the Statue of Liberty
Tato Laviera, lady liberty
Suji Kwock Kim, Slant
jessica Care moore, Black Statue of Liberty
Michael Daly, The Statue of Liberty was Muslim
(Section 3) Nikki Giovanni, Ego-Tripping
Anna Akhmatova, Somwhere there is a simple life
Reed Bobroff, Four Elements of Ghostdance
Adrienne Su, Things Chinese
Kevin Young, Eddie Priests Barbershop & Notary
John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn
Walt Whitman, from Song of Myself
WORKSHOP 1: WRITING POETRY
WORKSHOP 2: ANALYZING POETRY
8 EXPOSITION
ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF EXPOSITION
(Text Set 1) Stephen King, Stephen Kings Guide to Movie Snacks
Derf Backderf, from Trashed (graphic essay)
Lisa Damour, Why Teenage Girls Roll their Eyes
Raph Koster, from A Theory of Fun for Game Design
(Section 2) Alan Weisman, Earth Without People
Karl Greenfeld, My Daughters Homework is Killing Me
Susan Cain, from Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking
Martin Luther King Jr., Blueprint for Life
CENTRAL TEXT Troy Patterson, The Politics of the Hoodie
CONVERSATION – How Does Clothing Define Who We Are?
Kehinde Wiley, Willem van Heythuysen AND Ice-T (paintings)
Nora Caplan-Bricker, Women Who Wear Pants: Somehow Still Controversial
Michelle Parrinello-Cason, Labels, Clothing, and Identity: Are You What You Wear?
Hugh Hart, From Converse to Kanye: The Rise of Sneaker Culture
Jenni Avins, In Fashion, Cultural Appropriation Is Either Very Wrong or Very Right
Peggy Orenstein, The Battle Over Dress Codes
(Section 3) Jon Ronson, How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Saccos Life
Rebecca Solnit, from Men Explain Things to Me
Helen Rosner, On Chicken Tenders
Edwidge Danticat, Black Bodies in Motion and Pain
Samuel Johnson, On the Decay of Friendship
WORKSHOP 1: WRITING AN EXPOSITION
WORKSHOP 2: ANALYZING EXPOSITION
9 DRAMA
ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF DRAMA
(Section 1) Sylvia Gonzales S., from Boxcar
(Section 2) CENTRAL TEXT WillIiam Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
CONVERSATION – Does Tribalism Bring Us Together, or Pull Us Apart?
Adam Piore, Why Were Patriotic
David Brooks, People Like Us
Beverly Daniel Tatum, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Diane Farr, Bringing Home the Wrong Race
David Ropiek, Sports, Politics, Tribe, Violence, and the Social Human Animals Drive to Survive
(Section 3) B. T. Ryback, A Roz by Any Other Name
WORKSHOP 1: WRITING DRAMA
WORKSHOP 2: ANALYZING DRAMA
10 NARRATIVE
ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF NARRATION
(Section 1) Santha Rama Rau, By Any Other Name
Mindy Kaling, from Why Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Marcus Samuelsson, Yes, Chef
(Section 2) Carrie Brownstein, from Hunger Makes me a Modern Girl
Monique Truong, My Fathers Previous Life
Steven Hall, You, Me, and the Sea
Sarah Vowell, Music Lessons
CENTRAL TEXT Julia Alvarez, La Gringuita
CONVERSATION – What Is the Relationship Between Language and Power?
Jimmy Santiago Baca, from Coming into Language
Richard Wright, from Black Boy
Joshua Adams, Confessions of a Code Switcher
Douglas Quenqua, Theyre, Like, Way Ahead of the Linguistic Currrrve
Jessica Wolf, The Seven Words I Cannot Say (Around My Children)
(Section 3) Amanda Palmer, from The Art of Asking
Thi Bui, from The Best We Could Do (graphic memoir)
Haruki Murakami, Even if I Had a Long Pony Tail Back Then
WORKSHOP 1: WRITING NARRATIVE
WORKSHOP 2: ANALYZING NARRATIVE
11 MYTHOLOGY
ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF MYTHOLOGY
(Section 1) Neil Gaiman, How the Gods Got Their Treasures
(Section 2) CENTRAL TEXT Homer, from The Odyssey
CONVERSATION – What Is a Hero?
Linton Weeks, Heroic Acts to Protect the Word "Hero"
Katy Waldman, Is Anybody Watching My Do-Gooding?
William Rhoden, Seeing Through the Illusion of the Sports Hero
Stephen Kinzer, Joining the Military Doesnt Make You a Hero
Kyle Anderson, Why Captain America Is America’s Hero
(Section 3) Yusef Komunyaka, from Gilgamesh: A Verse Play
WORKSHOP 1: WRITING MYTHOLOGY
WORKSHOP 2: ANALYZING MYTHOLOGY
Grammar Workshops
MLA Guidelines for Works Cited
Glossary/Glossario of Academic and Literary Terms
Index (key terms + author/title)
Product Updates
Authors
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Renee Shea
Renée H. Shea was professor of English and Modern Languages and director of freshman composition at Bowie State University in Maryland, where she taught graduate seminars in rhetoric. A College Board faculty consultant for more than thirty years in AP® Language and Literature, and Pre-AP® English, she has been a reader and question leader for both AP® English exams. Renée served as a member on many committees for the College Board, including the AP® Language and Composition Development Committee, the English Academic Advisory Committee, and the SAT Critical Reading Test Development Committee. She is co-author of Literature & Composition, American Literature & Rhetoric, Conversations in American Literature, Advanced Language & Literature, and Foundations of Language & Literature, as well as volumes on Amy Tan and Zora Neale Hurston for the NCTE High School Literature Series. Renée continues to write about contemporary authors for publications such as World Literature Today, Poets & Writers, and Kenyon Review. Her recent publications focused on Celeste Ng, Imbolo Mbue, Namwali Serpell, Manuel Muñoz, and Ohio’s 2020–2025 poet laureate, Kari Gunter-Seymour.
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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 also a co-author of the Bedford, Freeman and Worth textbook Foundations of Language & Literature and the producer of Teaching Ideas: A Video Resource for AP® English. He is also the author of Reading in the Dark: Using Film as a Tool in the English Classroom and Reading in the Reel World: Teaching Documentaries and Other Nonfiction Texts, the producer and co-host of the podcast Third Rail Classroom, and the producer of The NCTE Centennial Film: Reading the Past, Writing the Future.
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Tracy Scholz
Tracy Scholz has been an educator for over 20 years. She has experience as an English teacher, department specialist, district interventionist, and served as the Associate Director for the Teacher Education Program at Rice University. She earned her doctoral degree in 2012 from the University of Houston in Curriculum and Instruction, and currently serves as the K-12 Advanced Academics Coordinator for Alief ISD.
Table of Contents
1 STARTING THE CONVERSATION
Building a Classroom Community
Thinking about Voice
Active Listening
Public Speaking
Culminating Activity
2 WRITING
The Power of the Pen
Voice and Tone
Precise Word Choice
Strong Sentences
Clear Punctuation
Well-Built Paragraphs
Culminating Activity
3 READING
Defining Texts
Active Reading
Reading for Understanding
Reading for Interpretation
Reading for Style
Reading Visual Texts
Culminating Activity
4 USING SOURCES
Sources as Conversation
Types of Sources
Finding Sources
Evaluating Sources
Keeping Track of Sources
Using Sources in Your Own Writing
Culminating Activity
5 FICTION
ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF FICTION
(Section 1) Ray Bradbury, The Veldt
Sherman Alexie, from The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian
Lena Coakley, Mirror Image
(Section 2) Etgar Keret, What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?
Edgar Allen Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game
Angela Flournoy, Lelah
CENTRAL TEXT Amy Tan, Two Kinds
CONVERSATION – Motivation: The Key to Success?
Malcolm Gladwell, from Outliers
Amy Chua, from The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Adam Grant, How to Raise a Creative Child
Daniel Pink, from Drive
Andre Agassi, from Open
(Section 3) Nadine Gordimer, Once Upon a Time
Kirstin Valdez Quade, Nemecia
Kate Chopin, Story of an Hour
Luke Jones & Anna Mill, Square Eyes (graphic novel)
WORKSHOP 1: WRITING FICTION
WORKSHOP 2: ANALYZING FICTION
6 ARGUMENT
ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF ARGUMENT
(Section 1) Lisa L. Lewis, Why School Should Start Later in the Day
NY Times Editorial Board, End the Gun Epidemic in America
Thomas Sowell, History Shows the Folly of Disarming Lawful People
Marc Bekoff, Why Was Harambe the Gorilla in a Zoo in the First Place?
(Section 2) Steve Almond, Is It Immoral to Watch the Super Bowl?
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Paranoid Style of American Policing
Tina Rosenberg, Labeling the Danger in Soda
Leonard Pitts, September 13, 2001: Hatred is Unworthy of Us
Barack Obama, Hiroshima Speech
CENTRAL TEXT Peggy Orenstein, What’s Wrong with Cinderella?
CONVERSATION – How Does the Media Shape Our Ideas about Gender?
Madeline Messer, Im a 12-year-old girl. Why dont the characters in my apps look like me?
Terryn Hall, When I Saw Prince, I Saw a Vital New Black Masculinity
Vanessa Friedman, Don’t Ban Ads of Skinny Models
Geena Davis Institute, Gender Bias Without Borders
Kali Holloway, Toxic Masculinity Is Killing Men: The Roots of Male Trauma
Jack O’Keefe, How ‘Master of None’ Subverts Stereotypical Masculinity by Totally Ignoring It
(Section 3) Daniel Engber, Kill All the Mosquitoes
Sarah Kessler, Why Online Harassment Is Still Ruining Lives—and How We Can Stop It
Mark Twain, Advice to Youth
Cesar Chavez, Letter from Delano
WORKSHOP 1: WRITING ARGUMENT
WORKSHOP 2: ANALYZING ARGUMENT
7 POETRY
ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF POETRY
(Section 1) Jose Olivarez, Home Court
Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
Suheir Hammad, What I Will
Rachel Richardson, Transmission
Dana Gioa, Money
Billy Collins, Flames
Jenni Baker, You American Boy AND Find Your Way
(Section 2) Nate Marshall, Harold’s Chicken Shack #86
Naomi Shihab Nye, Kindness
Michael Ondaatje, Sweet Like A Crow
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18: “Shall I Compare Thee…”
Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool
David Tomas Martinez, In Chicano Park
Emily Dickinson, Because I Could Not Stop For Death
Amit Majmudar, T. S. A.
Ha Jin, Ways of Talking
CENTRAL TEXT Langston Hughes, Let America Be America Again
CONVERSATION – What Does the Statue of Liberty Mean to Us Now?
Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus
Concord Oral History Program, Remembrances for the 100th Anniversary of the Statue of Liberty
Tato Laviera, lady liberty
Suji Kwock Kim, Slant
jessica Care moore, Black Statue of Liberty
Michael Daly, The Statue of Liberty was Muslim
(Section 3) Nikki Giovanni, Ego-Tripping
Anna Akhmatova, Somwhere there is a simple life
Reed Bobroff, Four Elements of Ghostdance
Adrienne Su, Things Chinese
Kevin Young, Eddie Priests Barbershop & Notary
John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn
Walt Whitman, from Song of Myself
WORKSHOP 1: WRITING POETRY
WORKSHOP 2: ANALYZING POETRY
8 EXPOSITION
ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF EXPOSITION
(Text Set 1) Stephen King, Stephen Kings Guide to Movie Snacks
Derf Backderf, from Trashed (graphic essay)
Lisa Damour, Why Teenage Girls Roll their Eyes
Raph Koster, from A Theory of Fun for Game Design
(Section 2) Alan Weisman, Earth Without People
Karl Greenfeld, My Daughters Homework is Killing Me
Susan Cain, from Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking
Martin Luther King Jr., Blueprint for Life
CENTRAL TEXT Troy Patterson, The Politics of the Hoodie
CONVERSATION – How Does Clothing Define Who We Are?
Kehinde Wiley, Willem van Heythuysen AND Ice-T (paintings)
Nora Caplan-Bricker, Women Who Wear Pants: Somehow Still Controversial
Michelle Parrinello-Cason, Labels, Clothing, and Identity: Are You What You Wear?
Hugh Hart, From Converse to Kanye: The Rise of Sneaker Culture
Jenni Avins, In Fashion, Cultural Appropriation Is Either Very Wrong or Very Right
Peggy Orenstein, The Battle Over Dress Codes
(Section 3) Jon Ronson, How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Saccos Life
Rebecca Solnit, from Men Explain Things to Me
Helen Rosner, On Chicken Tenders
Edwidge Danticat, Black Bodies in Motion and Pain
Samuel Johnson, On the Decay of Friendship
WORKSHOP 1: WRITING AN EXPOSITION
WORKSHOP 2: ANALYZING EXPOSITION
9 DRAMA
ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF DRAMA
(Section 1) Sylvia Gonzales S., from Boxcar
(Section 2) CENTRAL TEXT WillIiam Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
CONVERSATION – Does Tribalism Bring Us Together, or Pull Us Apart?
Adam Piore, Why Were Patriotic
David Brooks, People Like Us
Beverly Daniel Tatum, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Diane Farr, Bringing Home the Wrong Race
David Ropiek, Sports, Politics, Tribe, Violence, and the Social Human Animals Drive to Survive
(Section 3) B. T. Ryback, A Roz by Any Other Name
WORKSHOP 1: WRITING DRAMA
WORKSHOP 2: ANALYZING DRAMA
10 NARRATIVE
ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF NARRATION
(Section 1) Santha Rama Rau, By Any Other Name
Mindy Kaling, from Why Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Marcus Samuelsson, Yes, Chef
(Section 2) Carrie Brownstein, from Hunger Makes me a Modern Girl
Monique Truong, My Fathers Previous Life
Steven Hall, You, Me, and the Sea
Sarah Vowell, Music Lessons
CENTRAL TEXT Julia Alvarez, La Gringuita
CONVERSATION – What Is the Relationship Between Language and Power?
Jimmy Santiago Baca, from Coming into Language
Richard Wright, from Black Boy
Joshua Adams, Confessions of a Code Switcher
Douglas Quenqua, Theyre, Like, Way Ahead of the Linguistic Currrrve
Jessica Wolf, The Seven Words I Cannot Say (Around My Children)
(Section 3) Amanda Palmer, from The Art of Asking
Thi Bui, from The Best We Could Do (graphic memoir)
Haruki Murakami, Even if I Had a Long Pony Tail Back Then
WORKSHOP 1: WRITING NARRATIVE
WORKSHOP 2: ANALYZING NARRATIVE
11 MYTHOLOGY
ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF MYTHOLOGY
(Section 1) Neil Gaiman, How the Gods Got Their Treasures
(Section 2) CENTRAL TEXT Homer, from The Odyssey
CONVERSATION – What Is a Hero?
Linton Weeks, Heroic Acts to Protect the Word "Hero"
Katy Waldman, Is Anybody Watching My Do-Gooding?
William Rhoden, Seeing Through the Illusion of the Sports Hero
Stephen Kinzer, Joining the Military Doesnt Make You a Hero
Kyle Anderson, Why Captain America Is America’s Hero
(Section 3) Yusef Komunyaka, from Gilgamesh: A Verse Play
WORKSHOP 1: WRITING MYTHOLOGY
WORKSHOP 2: ANALYZING MYTHOLOGY
Grammar Workshops
MLA Guidelines for Works Cited
Glossary/Glossario of Academic and Literary Terms
Index (key terms + author/title)
Product Updates
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Foundations of Language and Literature
AP® teachers know the roots of AP® success are established in the earlier grades. That is the idea behind Foundations of Language & Literature, a complete program for 9th Grade Pre-AP® that establishes foundational skills, while challenging bright young minds.
The book is driven by the expertise of Renée Shea, John Golden, and Tracy Scholz who know that skills like reading, writing, and working with sources need careful development and constant reinforcement. This genre and mode-based book approaches the course in new ways, investigating nonfiction as well as literature, delving into fascinating argument-driven thematic units, and asking students to write in the genres, to empower them to read like a writer.
Innovative, challenging, and nurturing, Foundations of Language & Literature has all the support young minds need to be prepared for AP® success.
With the publication of Foundations of Language and Literature, BFW now offers a unified program of Pre-AP® and AP® English textbooks from grades 9 through 12, that guides students from introduction to mastery with a consistent tone and treatment of key AP® topics.
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