Research indicates students who take AP® courses choose a college major faster and have a greater likelihood of graduating college on time.
• 85% of selective colleges and universities report that a student’s AP experience favorably impacts admission decisions.
• Over 80% of AP students agree that after taking AP courses they feel more confident about doing well in college.
• Historically underserved students who participate in AP and score a 3 or higher on the exam are more likely to earn a college degree.​

Mean AP scores for underserved student populations fall significantly below the level necessary for college credit.
• Since one of the main reasons to take AP courses is an economic one, this negatively impacts low-income students.
• While AP for All is gaining significant momentum across the country, participation rates for historically underserved populations remain low compared to other student groups.
• AP strategies, including accessible content and differentiated instruction for students at varying learning levels, is key for overall student success.​

English Literature and
Composition

English Language and
Composition

Developed by leading experts, AMSCO® coursebooks, an imprint of Perfection Learning, meet the promise and challenge of AP courses by offering the right level of subject depth, instruction, and practice. Each coursebook is designed to prepare students for AP success with the rigor of a college-level course.

• Precise alignment to the latest Course and Exam Description (CED).
• Text written to make AP content accessible to all students.
• Scaffolded instruction.
• High-quality anchor reading and secondary reading texts.
• Extensive practice with AP-type questions, including three full-length exams.

The streamlined content allows teachers to focus on what really matters—ensuring students learn to think critically, analyze texts, and develop coherent arguments. 

The Promise & Challenge of Advanced Placement

The Perfection Learning® Advantage

Authors & Reviewers

Brandon Abdon,
Doctor of Arts, English
Senior Author

Former College Board Director of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment for AP® English. AP Reader, Instructor, and Presenter; College Board consultant. Currently a curriculum, instruction, and assessment consultant/coach and university composition and literature instructor.​

Timothy Freitas,
Master of Arts in Teaching,
Secondary English Education Co-Author

Serving as College Board® Consultants, APSI Instructors, Table Leaders, Exam Readers, and Test-Item Writers for Advanced Placement® exams, our authors and reviewers have deep content knowledge, strong pedagogy skills, and in-depth understanding of College Board curriculum frameworks and exams.

Rebecca McFarlan, 
Master of Arts in Teaching, Secondary English Education Co-Author

Lauren Peterson,
Master of Arts, Education Co-Author

College Board AP English Language and Composition Consultant; AP Reader; College Board Instructional Design team member for AP English Language and Composition CED; High School English Teacher, Whitinsville, Massachusetts; Founder of The Garden of English. 2023 CODiE Award finalist for The Most Influential Thought Leader in EdTech.

Highlands High School Schoolwide Literacy Leader; Curriculum and Instructional Coach; creator of College Board pilot curriculum designed to remediate common AP English Language challenges; AP English Language Reader and Trainer.

National Board Certified teacher of AP English Literature and AP English Language; College Board Reader and Table Leader; College Board Consultant; former member of the College Board Instructional Development Committee; Martha Holden Jennings Master Teacher award recipient.

Each coursebook has been carefully aligned to the corresponding AP course and exam framework. Written and reviewed by College Board consultants and award-winning instructors, our materials meticulously cover the entire course scope and expectations in the proper sequence and with a concise narrative.​

Aligns precisely with the College Board’s Big Ideas and Enduring Understandings, Course Skills, and Essential Knowledge.​

Frequent Checkpoints using both open-response and multiple-choice questions help students develop skills tested on the AP exam.

Detailed Alignment to College Board Frameworks

Accessibility—Reach All AP® Students

Developing College Readiness Skills

Exam Readiness—Preparing for the AP® Exam

Scaffolded Learning Tasks 

AMSCO® curriculum from Perfection Learning® builds capacity, without sacrificing rigor,
and supports students to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to be successful.​

Streamlined Note-Taking

Help students identify, extract, and comment on textual evidence. All highlights and notes are captured automatically in a running notebook—perfect for study and exam preparation.

Readability
Making college-level content accessible to high school students is of the utmost importance in ensuring success.

Each coursebook is carefully written and designed to help students:

Streamlined Content

Each coursebook is built to address the Big Ideas and Enduring Understandings, Course Skills, and Essential Knowledge for each unit. As a result, the depth and breadth of content coverage aligns precisely with the AP frameworks and exams.

Adaptive Reading Support

Interactive and eBook editions, with built-in Immersive Reader support, enable students to use a wealth of personalized tools to comprehend course content.

NEW!
FREE eBook library
of classic novels and nonfiction included
with interactive
editions. All with Immersive Reader functionality.​

Summative Assessment

Each coursebook also includes a complete practice exam mirroring the directions, timing, question formats, and content scope of the actual AP exam. Each test item is correlated to a specific enduring understanding from the exam framework, allowing teachers to quickly diagnose individual and class performance.
NEW! Two additional, full-length practice tests with rationales
are now available in the teacher support. All new test items are also available in
an editable Word document to build custom assessments.​

Unit AP Test Practice

All anchor texts have been carefully chosen and the related writing activities, FRQs, and multiple-choice questions have been meticulously constructed to model the format and quality of those on the exam. Each practice activity is tied to the enduring understandings from the College Board® CED with scoring rubrics and model answers. Through these activities, students gain targeted practice in closely reading, analyzing, and writing about the professional texts in the book so they can transfer and apply these skills to their own writing and on the test.

Assessment—Interactive Editions
Auto scoring, auto grading, rubrics
Interactive editions include hundreds of auto-graded, multiple-choice questions addressing reading analysis and writing revision skills. FRQs include detailed rubrics at point of use for easy grading.​

Reporting That Informs Instruction
Inform instruction, differentiate instruction, and individualize exam preparation with real-time data on topic and skill performance through the reporting function in the interactive editions.

• Easily access data to identify challenging concepts and questions.
•  Analyze student and class proficiency reports based on the College Board CEDs.
• Evaluate item analysis and usage reports by student and class.

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• Engage your students with unit anchor texts that serve as models of excellent rhetorical skills and offer opportunities for in-depth analysis.
— 9 anchor reading texts foster rereading and critical analysis.
— 9 anchor student drafts develop skills in evaluating writing.
• Assess skills and build exam confidence with carefully crafted AP-style questions.
— More than 200 multiple-choice questions.
— Prompts for rhetorical analysis, argument, and synthesis.
— 4 synthesis prompts
— 5 argument prompts
• A complete practice test mirrors the directions, timing, question formats, and content scope of the actual AP exam.
• The teacher package includes:
— An answer key
— Two additional complete practice tests with rationales.
— Editable Word versions of new tests to build custom assignments/assessments.
— Full-color PowerPoints of all images in the student edition.
— 45 pages of student reproducibles.
— A correlation to the CED.​

• Cover all the essential content and prepare students for the AP® exam through a perfect blend of literary works written by both classic and contemporary writers.
• Engage students with 9 anchor reading texts to foster rereading and literary analysis, as well as multiple secondary texts for instruction and analysis.
• Develop student competence through scaffolded activities in close reading, critical analysis, and interpretation of imaginative literature.
• Strengthen creative and analytical skills with features on the writer’s craft and the critic’s craft.
• Questions based on the AP exam formats.
— More than 250 multiple-choice questions.
— 8 poetry analysis prompts.
— 9 literary argument prompts.
• A complete practice test mirrors the directions, timing, question formats, and content
scope of the actual AP exam.
• The teacher package includes:
— An answer key.
— Two additional complete practice tests with rationales.
— Editable Word versions of new tests to build custom assignments/assessments.
— Full-color PowerPoints of all images in the student edition.
— A correlation to the CED.​

Increase engagement around the knowledge and skills students are learning in AP English courses through the use of challenging and relevant novels and nonfiction. These lists were curated specifically to pair with our AP English Language and Composition and AP English Literature and Composition texts. The titles were selected from those excerpted in the texts as well as those suggested by the College Board and frequently used titles on the exams.

Fiction — 32 Titles

Nonfiction — 18 Titles

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