Novel AP Curriculum

Novel AP Curriculum (10-12)

Novel’s Advanced Placement Language and Literature courses are the culminating courses in its culturally responsive, researched-based high school ELA curriculum. Novel’s Advanced Placement courses prioritize reading literary and rhetorical works of merit; promote knowledge building to help students comprehend and think critically about complex texts; incorporate direct instruction in writing skills and task types; and reflect careful alignment to the Advanced Placement Language and Literature Course and Examination Descriptions. Text selections for AP Language and Literature were made using Steinhardt’s Culturally Responsive Scorecard to ensure diverse representation of characters, voices, and authors and to reflect an orientation towards social justice. In AP Literature, there are 2-3 units that will offer teachers a choice of which unit to teach. This design feature allows teachers to customize their course sequence to the unique interests and needs of their students. Meanwhile, in AP Language, the teacher will have regular opportunities to choose which texts to center in a particular lesson or task–or to have students choose the texts and stimuli they will engage with for a task.

AP Seminar

AP Language

AP Literature