Possible Thematically-Organized Readings for AP Language and Composition Idea for Teaching Syntax: Woolf, Room of Ones Ownmens

v. womens college meals "We'll Go Forward From This Moment" by Leonard Pitts about 9/11 "Soldier's Home" by Hemingway

Education Bedford: Francine Prose, I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read--EXLEMPLIFICATION CAUSE/EFFECT Ralph Waldo Emerson, From EducationDEFINITION; PROCESS ANALYSIS Sherman Alexie, Superman and Me--NARRATION Margaret Talbot, Best in Class--EXLEMPLIFICATION James Baldwin, A Talk to TeachersNARRATION; CAUSE/EFFECT Kyoko Mori, SchoolCOMPARE/CONTRAST Billy Collins, The History Teacher (poetry)--EXLEMPLIFICATION Sandra Cisneros, Eleven (fiction)NARRATION; DESCRIPTION Visual TextReading at Risk tablesDESCRIPTION; CLASSIFICATION/DIVISION *Conversations: Horace Mann, from Report of the Massachusetts Board of EducationCOMPARE/CONTRAST DEFINITION Leon Botstein, Let Teenagers Try Adulthood--CAUSE/EFFECT Todd Gitlin, from The Liberal Arts in an Age of Info-Glut--COMPARE/CONTRAST David S. Broder, A Model for High Schools Floyd Norris, U.S. Students Fare Badly in International Survey of Math Skills COMPARE/CONTRAST; CLASSIFICATION/DIVISION Norman Rockwell, Spirit of Education--DEFINITION World of Ideas: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne, Of the Education of Children Fredrick Douglass, From Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, an American Slave Maria Montessori, The Montessori Method John Dewey, Thinking in Education Paulo Freire, The Banking Concept of Education Writers Presence, 4th ed. Bell Hooks, Learning in the Shadow of Race and Class--NARRATION Fredrick Douglas, Learning to Read and WritePROCESS ANALYSIS Jamaica Kinkaid, Girl 50 Essays Maya Angelou, GraduationNARRATION Gloria Anzaldua, How To Tame A Wild TongueDEFINITION Joan Didion, On Keeping a NotebookPROCESS ANALYSIS Fredrick Douglas, Learning to Read and WritePROCESS ANALYSIS Malcolm X, Learning to ReadPROCESS ANALYSIS Plato, The Allegory of the CaveCOMPARE/CONTRAST David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One DayNARRATION Bedford Reader, 9th Edition Sherman Alexie, Indian EducationNARRATION

Work Bedford: Barbara Ehrenreich, From Serving in FloridaNARRATION; DESCRIPTION Booker T. Washington, The Atlanta Exposition Address Richard Selzer, The Surgeon as PriestNARRATION; EXLEMPLIFICATION Compare/Contrast Claudia OKeefe, The Traveling Bra Salesmans Lesson--CAUSE/EFFECT Thomas Carlyle, From Labour--DEFINITION Annie Dillard, From The Writing LifeNARRATION; DESCRIPTION Ellen Goodman, In Praise of a Snails PaceDESCRIPTION; COMPARE/CONTRAST DEFINITION Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing (fiction)NARRATION; DESCRIPTION Jean Toomer, Harvest Song (poetry); DESCRIPTION Visual TextWe Can Do It! (poster) The Great GAPsby Society (cartoon) DEFINITION; CAUSE/EFFECT *Conversations: Marilyn Gardner, More Working Parents Play Beat the Clock DESCRIPTION DEFINITION; EXLEMPLIFICATION Amelia Warren Tyagi, Why Women Have to Work--COMPARE/CONTRAST CLASSIFICATION/DIVISION; CAUSE/EFFECT Claudia Wallis, The Case for Staying Home--DEFINITION Christopher Mele, Sick Parents Go to Work, Stay Home When Kids Are Ill --EXLEMPLIFICATION Kimberly Palmer, My Mother, Myself, Her Career, My Questions Buzz McClain, Dont Call Me Mr. Mom

CommunityRelationship of the individual to the community Bedford: Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail--CLASSIFICATION/DIVISION Henry David Thoreau, Where I Lived, and What I Lived forDESCRIPTION; COMPARE/CONTRAST Jane Howard, All Happy Clans Are Alike, In Search of the Good Family--DEFINITION Amitai Etzioni, The New Community--COMPARE/CONTRAST; DEFINITION Anna Quindlen, Commencement Speech at Mount Holyoke College Lori Arviso Alvord, Walking the Path between WorldsNARRATION; DESCRIPTION Edwidge Danticat, New York Day Women (fiction)-- NARRATION Aurora Levins Morales, Child of the Americas (poetry) DESCRIPTION; CLASSIFICATION/DIVISION Visual TextLee Teter, Reflections (painting) *Conversations: Bertrand Russell, The Happy Life--COMPARE/CONTRAST; DEFINITION Peter Singer, The Singer Solution to World Poverty--EXLEMPLIFICATION Garrett Hardin, Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor--EXLEMPLIFICATION John Betjeman, In Westminster Abbey (poetry) Bedford Reader, 9th Edition Shirley Jackson, The LotteryNARRATION Anna Quindlen, HomelessDESCRIPTION Barbara Lazear Ascher, On Compassion--DESCRIPTION Notes: Anthem?? Omelas??

Gender Bedford: Stephen Jay Gould, Womens Brains--CLASSIFICATION/DIVISION Virginia Woolf, Professions for WomenEXLEMPLIFICATION; PROCESS ANALYSIS John and Abigail Adams, Letters--DESCRIPTION Gretel Ehrlich, About Men Judith Ortiz Cofer, The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria DESCRIPTION; EXLEMPLIFICATION Paul Theroux, Being a Man--DEFINITION Stephen Lewis, AIDS Has a Womans Face Deborah Tannen, There is No Unmarked Woman--COMPARE/CONTRAST CLASSIFICATION/DIVISION; DEFINITION Zora Neale Hurston, Sweat-- NARRATION Marge Piercy, Barbie Doll (poetry)-- NARRATION Visual TextCathy Guisewite, Cathy (cartoon) --CLASSIFICATION/DIVISION Bill Broadway, New and Newer Versions of Scripture (table) *Conversation: Focus on Defining Masculinity Mark Bauerlein and Sandra Stotsky, Why Johnny Wont Read--COMPARE/CONTRAST David Brooks, Mind over Muscle--COMPARE/CONTRAST Rebecca Walker, Putting Down the Gun-- NARRATION Ann Hulbert, Boy Problems (with table) --COMPARE/CONTRAST World of Ideas: (listed under heading of feminism) Mary Wollstonecraft, Pernicious Effects Which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society Virginia Woolf, Shakespeares Sister Simone De Beauvoir, Woman: Myth and Reality Carol Gilligan, Womans Place in Mans Life Cycle Bell Hooks, The Significance of the Feminist Movement Writers Presence, 4th ed. James Fallows, Throwing Like a Girl Katha Plooitt, Why Boys Dont Play with Dolls Susan Orlean, The American Man at Age Ten Andrew Sullivan, The He Hormone Deborah Tannen, Listening to Men, Then and Now Wendy Kaminer, Lets Talk about Gender, Baby Amy Cunningham, Why Women Smile Edwidge Danticat, We Are Ugly, but We Are Here Bedford Reader, 9th Edition Jessica Cohen, Grade A: The Market for a Yale Womans EggsNARRATION Dave Barry, Batting Clean-Up and Striking OutCOMPARE/CONTRAST Fatema Mernissi, Size 6: The Western Womans HaremCOMPARE/CONTRAST

Sports and FitnessHow Do Sports Affect the Way We See Ourselves Bedford: Gay Talese, The Silent Season of a HeroNARRATION; DESCRIPTION; EXLEMPLIFICATION Theodore Roosevelt, The Proper Place for Sports John McMurtry, Kill Em, Crust Em, Eat Em Raw! EXLEMPLIFICATION COMPARE/CONTRAST; CAUSE/EFFECT Frances Willard, From How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle--PROCESS ANALYSIS Kris Vervaecke, A Spectators Notebook--EXLEMPLIFICATION Rick Reilly, The Real New York Giants--DESCRIPTION Samuel G. Freedman, From Fasting and Football, a Dedicated Game Plan-NARRATION John Updike, Ex-Basketball Player (poetry)-- NARRATION Maxine Kumin, Prothalamion (poetry) --DESCRIPTION Visual TextEdward Koren, Untitled (cartoon) *ConversationFocus on Body Image Donna Britt, A Unique Take on Beauty--DESCRIPTION Sports Illustrated, Little Sister, Big Hit (cover) Natalie Angier, Drugs, Sports, Body Image, and G.I. Joe--CAUSE/EFFECT American College of Sports Medicine, Disordered Eating and Body Image Disurbances May Be Underreported in Male Athletes-DESCRIPTION National Eating Disorders Association, Enhancing Male Body Image

LanguageHow Does Language Reveal Who We Are? Bedford: Richard Rodriguez, Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood-- NARRATION COMPARE/CONTRAST George Orwell, Politics and the English Language--CLASSIFICATION/DIVISION Amy Tan, Mother TongueDESCRIPTION; CLASSIFICATION/DIVISION Ngugi Wa Thiongo, From Decolonizing the Mind--COMPARE/CONTRAST DEFINITION; CAUSE/EFFECT Marjorie Agosin, Always Living in Spanish--COMPARE/CONTRAST Peter Berkowitz and Michael McFaul, Studying Islam, Strengthening the Nation --PROCESS ANALYSIS S.I. Hayakawa, Bilingualism in America: English Should Be the Official Language Lan Cao, From Monkey Bridge (fiction)NARRATION; DESCRIPTION Chang-Rae Lee, From Native Speaker (fiction)--DESCRIPTION Naomi Shihab Nye, For Mohammed Zeid of Gaza, Age 15--DEFINITION and Why I Could Not Accept Your Invitation (poetry)--COMPARE/CONTRAST CAUSE/EFFECT Visual TextMike Twohy, Rumors, Lies, and Innuendo (cartoon) James, Crawford, Census Data on Language Use in the United States (table) DESCRIPTION; COMPARE/CONTRAST *ConversationFocus on Current Language Usage Geoffrey Nunberg, How Much Wallop Can a Simple Word Pack? --COMPARE/CONTRAST DEFINITION Daniel Okrent, The War of Words: A Dispatch from the Front Lines--COMPARE/CONTRAST DEFINITION Letters to the Editor in response to The War of Words--COMPARE/CONTRAST DEFINITION Courtland Milloy, Pride to One Is Prejudice to Another Ray Magliozzi, Help Us Overthrow the Tall/Short Mafia Writers Presence, 4th ed. David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day Gloria Anzaldua, How to Tame a Wild Tongue James Baldwin on Black English Bedford, 9th Edition Stephanie Ericsson, The Ways We LieCLASSIFICATION William Lutz, The World of DoublespeakCLASSIFICATION Gloria Naylor, The Meanings of a WordDEFINITION Christine Leong, Being a Chink--DEFINTION

Science and TechnologyHow are advances in science and technology affecting the way we define our humanity? Bedford: Loren Eiseley, The Bird and the MachineNARRATION; COMPARE/CONTRAST T.H. Huxley, The Method of Scientific Investigation--EXLEMPLIFICATION DEFINITION Jacob Bronowski, The Reach of Imagination--COMPARE/CONTRAST; DEFINITION Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, The Future Happiness--CAUSE/EFFECT Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate--EXLEMPLIFICATION Ursula Franklin, Silence and the Notion of the Commons--DEFINITION Sven Birkerts, Into the Electronic Millennium--COMPARE/CONTRAST Elizabeth Royte, Transsexual FrogsNARRATION; DESCRIPTION; PROCESS ANALYSIS CAUSE/EFFECT Edgar Allen Poe, Sonnetto Science (poetry)--DEFINITION Walt Whitman, When I Heard the Learnd Astronomer (poetry) Brian Aldiss, Super-Toys Last All Summer Long (fiction)NARRATION; DEFINITION Visual TextCarl Sagan, The Cosmic Calendar--PROCESS ANALYSIS Gahan Wilson, Food Fight (cartoon) *ConversationFocus on the Ethics of Genetic Technology Lewis Thomas, On Cloning a Human Being Philip M. Boffey, Fearing the Worst Should Anyone Produce a Cloned Baby David Ewing Duncan, DNA as DestinyNARRATION; PROCESS ANALYSIS Rick Weiss, Pet Clones Spur Call for Limits--CAUSE/EFFECT Marilynn Marchione and Lindsey Tanner, More Couples Screening Embryos for Gender Writers Presence, 4th ed. Stephen Jay Gould, Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs Bedford, 9th edition Linnea Saukko, How to Poison the EarthCAUSE/EFFECT

Popular CultureTo what extent does pop culture affect our values? Bedford: David Denby, High-School Confidential: Notes on Teen MoviesDESCRIPTION; EXLEMPLIFICATION Mark Twain, Corn-Pone Opinions--EXLEMPLIFICATION Brent Staples, Godzilla vs. the Giant Scissors: Cutting the Antiwar Heart Out of a Classic--COMPARE/CONTRAST Vine Deloria Jr., We Talk, You Listen--CLASSIFICATION/DIVISION; CAUSE/EFFECT Danyel Smith, Dreaming America--COMPARE/CONTRAST Scott McCloud, Show and Tell (graphic essay)--CLASSIFICATION/DIVISION DEFINITION Teresa Wiltz, Popular Culture in the Aftermath of September 11 is a Chorus without a Hook, A Movie without an Ending--CAUSE/EFFECT Hans Ostrom, Emily Dickinson and Elvis Presley in Heaven (poetry) --DESCRIPTION Nikki Giovanni, Sanctuary: For Harry Potter the Movie--COMPARE/CONTRAST Visual TextMark Tansey, The Innocent Eye Test (painting) *ConversationFocus on Television Steven Johnson, Watching TV Makes You Smarter--COMPARE/CONTRAST Corbett Trubey, The Argument Against TV Julia Scott, He Doesnt Like to Watch--EXLEMPLIFICATION Anthony DiVivo, TV Turnoff Week (detail from a poster) --PROCESS ANALYSIS George Gerbner and Todd Gitlin, Is Media Violence Free Speech? (debate) Writers Presence, 4th ed. Marie Winn, TV Addiction Jack Hitt, The Hidden Life of SUVs Patricia J. Williams, Hate Radio

NatureWhat is our responsibility to nature? Bedford: Rachel Carson, From Silent SpringNARRATION; DESCRIPTION; CAUSE/EFFECT Ralph Waldo Emerson, From NatureDESCRIPTION; CLASSIFICATION/DIVISION Terry Tempest Williams, The Clan of the One-Breasted WomenNARRATION; EXLEMPLIFICATION; CAUSE/EFFECT Chief Seattle, Message to President Franklin Pierce--COMPARE/CONTRAST Wendell Berry, An Entrance to the WoodsNARRATION; DESCRIPTION Wangari Muta Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Speech--CAUSE/EFFECT Joyce Carol Oates, Against NatureEXLEMPLIFICATION; DEFINITION Sarah Orne Jewett, A White Heron (fiction)NARRATION; DESCRIPTION PROCESS ANALYSIS William Wordsworth, The Tables Turned (poetry)--COMPARE/CONTRAST Visual TextAsher B. Durand, Kindred Spirits (painting) *ConversationFocus on Climate Change Bill McKibben, Its Easy Being Green--EXLEMPLIFICATION Richard Conniff, From Counting Carbons (with table)--EXLEMPLIFICATION Edward O. Wilson, From The Future of Life--COMPARE/CONTRAST Melissa Farlow and Randy Olson, Ice Blankets (photograph with caption) Indur M. Goklany, Is Climate Change the 21st Centurys Most Urgent Environmental Problem? Daniel Glick, GeoSigns: The Big ThawDESCRIPTION; CAUSE/EFFECT World of Ideas: Francis Bacon, The Four Idols Charles Darwin, Natural Selection Rachel Carson, The Sunless Sea Stephen Jay Gould, Nonmoral Nature Michio Kaku, The Mystery of Dark Matter

PoliticsWhat is the relationship between the citizen and the state? Bedford: Jamaica Kincaid, On Seeing England for the First Time--DESCRIPTION COMPARE/CONTRAST Jonathon Swift, A Modest Proposal--PROCESS ANALYSIS; CAUSE/EFFECT Chris Hedges, From The Destruction of Culture--EXLEMPLIFICATION DEFINITION; CAUSE/EFFECT Oliver Goldsmith, National Prejudices--DEFINITION Virginia Woolf, Thoughts on Peace in an Air RaidNARRATION; DESCRIPTION COMPARE/CONTRAST Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience--DEFINITION Wole Soyinka, Every Dictators Nightmare--DEFINITION Tim OBrien, On the Rainy River (fiction)NARRATION; DESCRIPTION CAUSE/EFFECT Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Conversation with an American Writer (poetry) Visual TextPablo Picasso, Guernica (cover) The New Yorker, March 17, 2003 (cover) Harpers, April 2003 (cover) *ConversationFocus on the Politics of Imperialism George Orwell, Shooting an ElephantNARRATION; DESCRIPTION CAUSE/EFFECT Chinua Achebe, The Empire Fights Back--COMPARE/CONTRAST; CAUSE/EFFECT Eavan Boland, In Which the Ancient History I Learn Is Not My Own (poetry) --DESCRIPTION COMPARE/CONTRAST National Park Service, Christiansted: Official Map and GuideNARRATION; CAUSE/EFFECT Bombay Company, What Park of you lives in Bombay? (advertisement) Writers Presence, 4th ed. George Orwell, Politics and the English Language Anthem?

Government World of Ideas: Lao-Tzu, Thoughts from the Tao-te-Ching Niccolo Machiavelli, The Qualities of the Prince Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Origin of Civil Society Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence Hannah Arendt, Total Domination Stephen L. Carter, The Separation of Church and State

Justice (Some selections may be better suited to Government/Politics) World of Ideas: Marcus Tullius Cicero, The Defense of Justice Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience (also in Bedfords Politics) Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail (Bedfords Community) John Rawls, A Theory of Justice Martha C. Nussbaum, The Central Human Functional Capabilities Philosophy: An Introduction through Literature: Stephen Crane, An Experiment in Misery (fiction) John Dos Passos, The House of Morgan (fiction) Plato, The Republic John Stuart Mill, On the Connection Between Justice and Utility J.J.C. Smart, Distributive Justice and Utilitarianism Milton Fisk, Economic Justice

Wealth and Poverty (Possibly merge some selections with Politics or Communitys Conversation) World of Ideas: Adam Smith, Of the Natural Progress of Opulence Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto John Maynard Keynes, Social Consequences of Changes in Valuable Money John Kenneth Galbraith, The Position of Poverty Robert B. Reich, Why the Rich Are Getting Richer and the Poor, Poorer

Mind World of Ideas: Plato, The Allegory of the Cave Rene Descartes, Discourse Four Sigmund Freud, The Oedipus Complex Carl Jung, The Personal and the Collective Unconscious Melanie Klein, The Psychological Principles of Infant Analysis Howard Gardner, A Rounded Version: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences Writers Presence, 4th ed. Sherman, Alexie, The Toughest Indian in the World (fiction) Raymond Carver, Popular Mechanics

Ethics and Morality (Possible Overlap with Bedfords Community) World of Ideas: The Torah, Moses and the Ten Commandments Aristotle, The Aim of Man St. Matthew, The Sermon on the Mount The Koran, The Night Journey Friedrich Nietzsche, Morality as Anti-Nature Iris Murdoch, Morality and Religion His Holiness the Dalai Lama, The Ethic of Compassion Writers Presence, 4th ed. Alice Walker, Everday Use (fiction) Philosophy: An Introduction through Literature: Frank OConnor, Guests of the Nation Robert C. Mortimer, Moral Authority Brian Medlin, Ultimate Principles and Ethical Egoism John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism Immanuel Kant, Passage from Ordinary Rational Knowledge of Morality A.J. Ayer, Critique of Ethics and Theology Gilbert Harman, Ethics and Observation Lowell Kleiman, Morality as the Best Explanation Bruce Brower, Virtue Concepts and Ethical Realism Kurt Baier, Why Should We Be Moral?

Personal Identity: Philosophy: An Introduction through Literature: Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis (fiction) Plato, The Phaedo Gilbert Ryle, Descartes Myth John Locke, The Prince and the Cobbler David Hume, Of Personal Identity Anthony Quinton, The Soul E. Victioria Spelman, Woman as Body Saul Kripke, from Naming and Necessity Eddy M. Zemach, Looking Out for Number One