Why in the world would you stay away from nonfiction? The College Board has never recommended that the AP lit. and composition course forego nonfiction literary works. The AP test often features nonfiction ("expository prose" passages. As a matter of fact, the College Board's published course description includes the following list of nonfiction author recommendations for your syllabus. You'd be doing your students a disservice to eliminate nonfiction from your course. Expository Prose: Joseph Addison; Gloria Anzaldúa; Matthew Arnold; James Baldwin; James Boswell; Thomas Carlyle; Jesús Colón; Ralph Waldo Emerson; William Hazlitt; Samuel Johnson; Charles Lamb; Norman Mailer; Mary McCarthy; H. L. Mencken; John Stuart Mill; George Orwell; Richard Steele; Lewis Thomas; Henry David Thoreau; Barbara Tuchman; Virginia Woolf

Thank you for the feedback. I am sorry your school does not have copies of many of the texts included on the syllabus. That's a shame. I have taken your suggestion and listed the major texts in the product description. Please note that you could substitute titles from your school book list for those on this syllabus.

I'm sorry you feel disappointed in this product. My product description was intended to make it clear that this was a simple single handout: "A simple, direct handout to help teach the basic five-paragraph essay. Perfect for lower level learners."