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American Literature and Rhetoric

First  Edition©2021  Robin Aufses; Renee Shea; Katherine E. Cordes; Lawrence Scanlon

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 | Rhetorical Analysis

Chapter 2 | Evidence-Based Arguments

Chapter 3 | Analyzing Fiction

Chapter 4 | Analyzing Poetry

Chapter 5 | Redefining America: 2001 to the Present

Chapter 6 | A Meeting of Old and New Worlds: Beginnings to 1830

Chapter 7 | America in Conflict: 1830-1865

Chapter 8 | Reconstructing America: 1865-1913

Chapter 9 | America in the Modern World: 1913-1945

Chapter 10 | The Rise of a Superpower: 1945-2000

Robin Dissin Aufses

Robin Dissin Aufses is director of English Studies at Lycée Français de New York, where she teaches AP® English Language and Composition. Previous to this position, Aufses was the English department chair and a teacher at John F. Kennedy High School in Bellmore, New York, for ten years, and prior to that she taught English at Paul D. Schreiber High School in Port Washington, New York, for twenty years. She is co-author of Literature & Composition, The Language of Composition, and Conversations in American Literature and has published articles for the College Board® on novelist Chang-Rae Lee and the novel All the King’s Men.

Renee H. Shea

Renée H. Shea was professor of English and Modern Languages and Director of Freshman Composition at Bowie State University in Maryland. A College Board® faculty consultant for more than thirty years in AP® Language, Literature, and Pre-AP® English, she has been a reader and question leader for both AP® English exams. Renée served as a member of the Development Committee for AP® Language and Composition and the English Academic Advisory Committee for the College Board®, as well as the SAT® Critical Reading Test Development Committee. She is coauthor of The Language of Composition, Literature & Composition, Advanced Language & Literature, and Conversations in American Literature, as well as two volumes in the NCTE High School Literature series (on Amy Tan and Zora Neale Hurston).

Katherine E. Cordes

Katherine E. Cordes is a National Board Certified English Teacher with a B.A. in English, Psychology, and Medieval Studies; an M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction; more than 18 years of experience in the secondary English Language Arts classroom; and 6 years of experience working with NBCT candidates through the National Education Association. She currently teaches tenth grade English, dual enrollment College Writing, AP® English Language, and AP® English Literature at Skyview High School in Billings, Montana. As part of the College Board®’s Instructional Design Team, Katherine contributed to the development, review, and dissemination of the 2019 AP® English Literature and Composition Course and Exam Description, and she has been an AP® Reader for the AP® English Literature exam for eight years. She has authored teacher resource materials for Conversations in American Literature and The Language of Composition, Third Edition. She is also co-author of Literature & Composition, Third Edition.

Lawrence Scanlon

Lawrence Scanlon taught at Brewster High School for more than thirty years and now teaches at Iona College in New York. Over the past twenty years, he has been a reader and question leader for the AP® Language and Composition Exam. As a College Board® consultant in the United States and abroad, he has conducted AP® workshops in both language and literature and has served on the AP® English Language Test Development Committee. Larry is co-author of Literature & Composition, The Language of Composition, and Conversations in American Literature and has published articles for the College Board® and elsewhere.