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American Literature & Rhetoric
                                                                            Robin Dissin Aufses, Renée H. Shea,
                                                                          Lawrence Scanlon, Katherine E. Cordes
 You told us & we listened






 Opening chapters introduce key reading and writing    Visuals and outside texts engage students

 skills for the American literature course.  and enrich the study of American literature.


 Targeted writing instruction:    Chapter   Culminating Activity  Extending Beyond the Text
 Developing key reading and writing    features: Encouraging exploration
 skills for nonfiction, fiction, and poetry.  1. Analyzing Rhetoric   Crafting a Rhetorical Analysis Essay   and inspiring new ideas
 Chapters 1-4 teach the reading and writing   2. Evidence-Based Arguments   Crafting an Evidence-Based Argument Essay  This feature provides ways to both
 skills key to success in the American    challenge well-prepared students and
 literature course. With equal attention to   3. Analyzing Fiction   Crafting a Fiction Analysis Essay  engage reluctant readers by giving
 nonfiction and literature, these chapters    students the opportunity to explore
 provide scaffolded step-by-step instruction,    4. Analyzing Poetry   Crafting a Poetry Analysis Essay  how the ideas of a piece connect
 activities, tips for revising, and model    with real-world issues and other texts.
 student essays. Each chapter culminates
 with an essay assignment that lets students
 apply what they have learned.



                                        to cutting-edge technology. Batteries had   5
 Conversations reinforce evidence-based argument skills.  plummeted down the same cost curve as
                                        renewable energy, so the fact that the sun went
                                        down at night no longer mattered quite so   Bill McKibben
                                        much — you could store its rays to use later.
 Because students’ ability to synthesize multiple sources is a primary concern of college    And the third realization? People began   5
 composition courses—as well as a skill that must be demonstrated on the AP  Language    to understand that the biggest reason we
 ®
 Exam—the Conversation in each chapter provides source material and guiding questions    weren’t making full, fast use of these new
 to help students use the words and ideas of others to develop their own arguments. Each    technologies was the political power of the
                                        fossil-fuel industry. Investigative journalists had
 Conversation is centered on an enduring issue that continues to be a subject of debate today.    exposed its three-decade campaign of denial
 In joining these Conversations, students investigate how the past continues to shape the    and disinformation, and attorneys general and   Emphasizing visual analysis:
 present and develop positions on how to approach the future.  plaintiffs’ lawyers were beginning to pick them   Images with a purpose
                                        apart. And just in time.
                                         These trends first intersected powerfully on   We believe that visual literacy is crucial
                                        Election Day in 2020. The Halloween hurricane   to being able to understand and analyze our
                                        that crashed into the Gulf didn’t just take   world, which is why American Literature &
                                        hundreds of lives and thousands of homes; it
                                        revealed a political seam that had begun to show   Rhetoric includes visual texts that accompany
             Greta Thunberg, shown here at age 16, has
             profoundly influenced the climate-change   up in polling data a year or two before. Of all the   nearly all of the readings in the book. These
             conversation. In this issue, Time magazine   issues that made suburban Americans — women   images are carefully chosen—each one has
             credits Thunberg with “transforming millions   especially — uneasy about President Trump, his
             of vague, middle-of-the-night anxieties into a   stance on climate change was near the top. What   a clear, authentic pedagogical purpose
             worldwide movement calling for urgent change.”  had seemed a modest lead for the Democratic   and a critical thinking question. We made
              Why has Greta’s voice commanded the    challenger widened during the last week of the
              world’s attention?  What aspects of this    campaign as damage reports from Louisiana and   it our goal to carefully select images that
              cover help explain why  McKibben referred          inform the reading of a print text, suggest
              to her age group as “the  Greta Generation”?  Mississippi rolled in; on election night it turned
                                        into a rout, and the analysts insisted that an   new ideas, or provide additional context.
                                        under appreciated “green vote” had played a vital
                                        part — after all, actual green parties in Canada,
            stages, had begun to hurt: watching a California
                                        the U.K. and much of continental Europe were
            city literally called Paradise turn into hell inside
            of two hours made it clear that all Americans   also outperforming expectations. Young voters
                                        were turning out in record numbers: the Greta
            were at risk. When you breathe wildfire smoke   1
            half the summer in your Silicon Valley fortress,   Generation,  as punsters were calling them,
 AP ®  is a trademark registered by the College Board, which is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, this product.    or struggle to find insurance for your Florida   made climate change their No. 1 issue.
            beach house, doubt creeps in even for those who   And when the new President took the oath
                                        of office, she didn’t disappoint. In her Inaugural
            imagined they were immune.
              Two, there were actually some solutions. By   Address, she pledged to immediately put
            2020, renewable energy was the cheapest way
            to generate electricity around the planet — in
                                        1 A reference to Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg (b.
            fact, the cheapest way there ever had been.
            The engineers had done their job, taking sun   2003). She started an international movement addressing the
                                        seriousness of climate change when she began skipping school
            and wind from quirky backyard DIY projects   to protest outside the Swedish Parliament in 2018. — Eds.
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