What’s in LaunchPad Solo for Literature?

LaunchPad Solo for Literature is packed with digital content designed to help you sharpen your close reading skills as you work with literary texts. Whether your instructor assigns the resources in LaunchPad or encourages you to work with the material at your own pace, we’re confident that LaunchPad will help you develop the skills you need to succeed in college and beyond. For help using LaunchPad, please visit Macmillan Learning Support and browse our knowledge base or contact Tech Support. You can also find Tech Support contact information by clicking “Help” in the upper right corner of your LaunchPad home screen.

Questions embedded within featured selections assist you as you make a critical reading of a play, poem, or short story.

Annotations highlight key moments in two or more texts, and response questions facilitate comparison.

Respond to instructor comments on a text, and engage in class discussion directly on the page.

Author videos on the elements of literature include T.C. Boyle on comedy in fiction, Anne Rice on transitions in fiction, and Frank McCourt on voice, and many more.

Multiple choice quizzes on hundreds of readings help you test and develop your understanding of the text. Exercises on the elements of literature give you practice with common concepts and literary devices like character, plot, rhyme, tone, and symbolism.

Study one of the ten common critical perspectives to understand how a particular work is constructed and see what its social and cultural implications are. Reading literary criticism from approaches such as deconstruction, feminist criticism, and postcolonial criticism will inspire you to reread, rethink, and respond.

Browse more than 200 widely read literature texts, including poems, short stories, play scenes, essays, and contextual documents.

Developed in light of the latest advances in learning research, LearningCurve is a game-like adaptive quizzing program that covers topics from grammar and usage to reading critically and argument. The less you know about a topic, the more LearningCurve focuses on it, and the better you do, the more challenging the questions become, helping you concentrate on exactly what you need to learn.

The LaunchPad table of contents includes the core content and modules to help you master the course material, including LearningCurve adaptive quizzing. You can browse this material by expanding each LaunchPad unit. For additional help navigating LaunchPad, see Navigating LaunchPad.

Your instructor may assign work for you to complete. In LaunchPad, assignments always appear at the top of the homepage, ordered by due date. For more information about LaunchPad assignments, see Where do I get my assignments?

You can also access unassigned resources in LaunchPad. Learn how by reading How do I find unassigned resources in LaunchPad?

LaunchPad gives you the opportunity to actively monitor your learning. If your instructor has assigned material in a unit, you can easily monitor your progress toward completing that unit. The LaunchPad gradebook records your grades as well as your instructor’s feedback. Each LearningCurve activity allows you to pinpoint exactly which topics you may be struggling with most. For more information on using the LaunchPad gradebook, see How can I use the gradebook to track my progress?

Your LaunchPad includes LearningCurve activities, game-like quizzing that adapts to your needs based on your performance. You can use LearningCurve to help you prepare for class or review material after class. LearningCurve includes reports that show you what areas of the course you understand well, and where you should continue to study. To learn more, see How does LearningCurve work?