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About the AP Lit curriculum

AP Literature and Composition is the College Board's senior-year college-credit course in literary analysis, taken by roughly 400,000 students every year across the United States. Its exam runs three hours: a multiple-choice section on close reading, then three free-response essays — a poetry FRQ (Question 1), a prose-fiction FRQ, and a literary-argument essay built on a work the student selects from the year's reading. Q1 is the section national scores are lowest on, year after year, and the section most AP Lit teachers spend the most time scaffolding. The literary-argument prompt rewards depth on a small canon — Faulkner, Morrison, Hurston, the post-1900 American novel — read closely enough that a student can name a specific scene under timed pressure. The Acorn Book lists representative works; the AP Chief Reader Reports name the works graders actually saw essays about. Storgy's AP Lit coverage prioritises the works that show up on those Chief Reader lists: the Morrison-Faulkner-Hurston-Ellison-Baldwin core; the British twentieth-century modernists; the American dramatists from Williams through August Wilson; the Ibsen and Chekhov plays a Q3 essay tends to reach for. Each work ships with a line-by-line reading where the form supports one (the poetry catalogue), a thesis-prompt bank, rubric-aligned model paragraphs, and a "what a 6-essay says about this" Teacher Pro section keyed to the official AP scoring criteria. The unit of analysis on these pages is the work, not the chart.