<![CDATA[This article reports book evaluation in the textbook entitleds âEnglish Skills for the Futureâ designed forthe tenth grade students of senior high school. The main objective of the research are to: (1) discoverwhether English Skills for the Future is relevant to the English language and literature syllabus ofCurriculum 2013, (2) find out whether English Skills for the Future develops the scientific approach, (3)determine whether English Skills for the Future develops authentic assessment and (4) discover whetherEnglish Skills for the Future meets the characteristics of good English textbook. The data of this study isdocument analysis and observation. The data were collected by using document analysis. The techniqueanalyzing data on the textbook involves data collection, data reduction, data display and drawingconclusion as proposed by Miles and Huberman (1992 : 16). The result confirmed that ES book had met71% criteria of good book with coverage 63% for relevance of the materials to the curriculum, 75% formaterial accuracy, 73% for supporting learning materials, 76% for language appropriateness, 81% forpresentation technique, 71% for teaching and learning technique, 100% for presentation coverage and71% evaluation standard of 2013 curriculum. ES book was relevant to the 2013 Curriculum due to thepresentational activities and activities for character building Keywords : content analysis, English and literature, curriculum 2013, scientific approach, authentic assessment]]>
