This is the second in a series detailing how SAS Curriculum Pathways supports the Advanced Placement curriculum. For an introduction and overview, check out this earlier post.

One of the joys of teaching Advanced Placement English is helping students learn to analyze and write about complex texts. Whether you ask them to sail to Byzantium with Yeats, wander through labyrinths with Borges, or dive into Walden Pond with Thoreau, you can enhance these journeys with high-quality supporting materials. SAS Curriculum Pathways offers a wealth of resources that do just that.

Students taking the AP English Literature and Composition course learn to read and write about imaginative literature from different genres and periods. Students explore literary elements, interpret texts, and evaluate their quality. They develop writing skills by expressing ideas and analyses in expository, argumentative, and analytical essays.

Here’s a list of just a few of the SAS Curriculum Pathways resources that will help your students develop these skills:

• English Poetry: Sailing to Byzantium
• Exploring Themes in Borges’s Labyrinths
• History and Romance in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter
• Moral Character in Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles
• Persuasive Techniques in Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”
• Reading The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
• The King’s Speech in Shakespeare’s Henry V
• The “Superman Theory” in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment

AP English Language and Composition focuses on the critical reading of complex texts, most of which are nonfiction. Students analyze information from these texts, applying rhetorical strategies as they work their way through all stages of the writing process. They learn to write arguments, make inquiries, and conduct research.

SAS Curriculum Pathways resources such as the following will help your students develop these skills:

• Abraham Lincoln Shows How to Use Strong Verbs
• Darwin’s Diodon: Reading Complex Text about an Unusual Fish
• Emerson’s Advice: Reading Complex Text about Self-Reliance
• Exploring King’s “I Have a Dream” Speech
• inContext
• Pliny’s Journal: An Eyewitness Account of the Eruption of Vesuvius
• Political Palaver and the Passive Voice
• Sentence Sense
• Strategies for Reading Nonfiction
• Writing an Introduction
• Writing Planner
• Writing Drafter
• Writing Reviser
• Writing Publisher