Literature & Composition: Reading, Writing, Thinking

Carol Jago taught AP Literature and was department chair at Santa Monica High School for thirty-two years. She has served on the AP Literature Development Committee and as a content advisor on AP Central. She is the author of many books, including With Rigor for All: Teaching the Classics to Contemporary Students; Beyond Standards: Excellence in the High School English Classroom; and four titles in the NCTE High School Literature series. In 2010, Carol is the president of NCTE and an advisor for the Common Core State Standards Initiative. Renée H. Shea is professor of English and Modern Languages at Bowie State University and former Director of Composition. She is coauthor of The Language of Composition: Reading - Writing - Rhetoric and two titles in the NCTE High School Literature series on Amy Tan and Zora Neale Hurston. She has been a reader and question leader for both AP Literature and Language readings. Lawrence Scanlon taught at Brewster High School for more than thirty years. Over the last fifteen years he has been a reader and question leader for the AP Language exam. As a College Board consultant in the U.S. and abroad, he has conducted AP workshops in both Language and Literature, as well as serving on the AP Language Development Committee. Larry is coauthor of The Language of Composition: Reading - Writing - Rhetoric and has published articles for the College Board and elsewhere on composition and curriculum. Robin Dissin Aufses is director of English Studies at Lycée Français de New York. She is coauthor of The Language of Composition: Reading - Writing - Rhetoric. Robin also has published articles for the College Board on the novelist Chang Rae Lee and the novel All the Kings Men.