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Here’s How It Works

Advanced Language & Literature is divided Into two main sections:

Opening Chapters Scaffolded Skills Instruction
These skill-building instructional chapters lay the
Chapter 1 – Making Meaning
groundwork for the skills students will develop and
Chapter 2 – Understanding Literature master throughout the course. These chapters use very
brief accessible texts to introduce, model, and practice
Chapter 3 – Understanding Argument fundamental academic skills. Those skills include:
and Rhetoric · how to approach an unfamiliar text
Chapter 4 – Understanding Inquiry and · how to conduct an academic conversation
Evidence-Based Argument · how to read a text for a variety of purposes
· how to work with literature of a variety of genres
· how to analyze and use rhetoric and argument strategies
· how to conduct an inquiry and investigate an issue
· how to work with sources and use evidence persuasively

Thematic Chapters Balancing Nonfiction and Literature
The thematic chapters alternate focus between nonfiction
Chapter 5 – Changing the World and literature, to keep your course balanced while helping
(nonfiction) students deepen mastery and practice the skills introduced
Chapter 6 – Self Discovery (literature) in the opening chapters.
Chapter 7 – The Individual in School Spiraling Skills Throughout the Book
(nonfiction) To deepen mastery of the skills introduced in the opening
chapter, each thematic chapter has an integrated Skill
Chapter 8 – Cultures, Conflicts, and Focus with three components:
Connections (literature)
1. Skill Workshops to deepen understanding of essential
Chapter 9 – Our Robotic Future elements
(nonfiction)
2. Skill Focus questions to analyze the effects of those
Chapter 10 – Utopia/Dystopia (literature) elements
Chapter 11 – Do the Right Thing 3. Writing Workshop to help students put the element into
(nonfiction) practice in their own writing.
Chapter 12 – Power (literature) World-Class Selections Your Students Will
Actually Read
The readings in this book were selected to be fresh,
engaging, relevant, and vital. From Trevor Noah to N.K.
Jemisin, from Mindy Kaling to Richard Blanco, from Steven
Hawking to Kurt Vonnegut, the texts in these chapters were
selected with student readers in mind.

“ It really helps students build up to a better understanding of higher order
thinking and it allows for some healthy conversations about global issues.”
—Stephanie Salazar, London HS, TX

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