AP Reading List

(LOC) The Language of Composition (NS) Norton Sampler--Online (POA) Perspectives

on Argument--Online

Essays

1. Annie Dillard “The Death of a Moth” (NS)

2. Alice Steinbach “The Miss Dennis School of Writing”(NS)
3. Cherokee Paul McDonald “A View From the Bridge”(NS)
4. Beverly Dipo “No Rainbows, No Roses”(NS)
5. Ann Hodgman “No Wonder They Call Me a Bitch”(NS)
6. Thomas Beller “The Ashen Guy: Lower Broadway, September 11,
2001”(NS)
7. Mary Mebane “The Back of the Bus”(NS)
8. Richard Rodriguez “None of This is Fair”(NS)
9. Kelly Simon “Frank Sinatra’s Gum”(NS)
10. The Onion “All Seven Deadly Sins Committed at Church Bake
Sale”(NS)
11. Richard Lederer “English is a Crazy Language”(NS)
12. Nat Hentoff “Jazz: Music Beyond Time and Nations”(NS)
13. Janet Wu “Homeward Bound”(NS)
14. Amy Tan “Mother Tongue” (NS)
15. Eric A. Watts “The Color of Success”(NS)
16. Freeman Dyson “Science Guided by Ethics, Can Lift Up the
Poor”(NS)
17. Jeff Jacoby “The Rise of the Blended American”(NS)
18. Jon Katz “How Boys Become Men”(NS)
19. Alexander Petrunkevitch “The Spider and the Wasp”(NS)
20. Garrison Keillor “How to Write a Letter”(NS)
21. Philip Weiss “How to Get Out of a Locked Trunk”(NS)
22. Deborah Dalfonso “Grammy Rewards”(NS)
23. Debbie Davis “Body Imperfect”(NS)
24. Gary Soto “Like Mexicans”(NS)
25. Deborah Tannen “Gender in the Classroom”(NS)
26. Dave Barry “Guys vs. Men”(NS)
27. Pico Iyer “In Praise of the Humble Comma”(NS)
28. Langston Hughes “Bop”(NS)
29. Geeta Kothari “If You Are What You Eat, Then What am I?”(NS)
30. Marissa Nunez “Climbing the Golden Arches”(NS)
31. Henry Louis Gates Jr. “A Giant Step”(NS)
32. Ruth Russell “The Wounds That Can’t Be Stitched Up”(NS)
33. Thomas Jefferson “The Declaration of Independence”(NS)
34. Roger Verhulst “Being Prepared in Suburbia”(NS)
35. Meghan Daum “Safe Sex Lies”(NS)
36. Chief Seattle “Reply to the U.S. Government”(NS)
37. Jonathan Swift “A Modest Proposal”(NS)
38. George Orwell “Politics and The English”(NS)
39. Mark Twain “Learning the River”(NS)
40. Virginia Wolf “The Death of the Moth”(NS)
41. E.B. White “Once More to the Lake”(NS)
42. Joan Didion “On Keeping a Notebook”(NS)
43. Audrey Rock-Richardson “Pay Your Own Way! (Then Thank Mom)”
(POA)
44. Abby Ellin “The Laptop Ate My Attention Span” (POA)
45. Shirlee Taylor Haizlip “We Knew What Glory Was” (POA)
46. Chang-Lin Tien “A View From Berkley” (POA)
47. Suzette Brewer “One of Our Own: Training Native Teachers for the
21st Century” (POA)
48. Judy Brady “Why I Want a Wife” (POA)
49. Reiko Hatsumi “A Simple “Hai” Won’t Due” (POA)
50. Sara Rimer “Jobs Illuminate What Riots Hid: Young Ideals” (POA)
51. Robert Israeloff “Don’t Know Much About History” (POA)
52. LyNell Hancock and Claudia Kalb “A Room of Their Own”
53. Tanya Pierce “Trial By Jury: A Fundamental Right and a Flawed
System” (POA)
54. John Evans “What Happened to Disney Films”(POA)
55. Ted Sizer “What’s Wrong with Standard Tests?”(POA)
56. Katie Roiphe “Campus Climate Control”(POA)
57. Lilian Katz “Reading, Writing, Narcissism”(POA)
58. Peg Tyre “Bringing Up Adultolescents” (POA)
59. Lyla Fox “Hold Your Horsepower” (POA)
60. Roxana Robinson “Censorship or Common Sense”(POA)
61. Naomi Wolf “The Future Is Ours To Lose” (POA)
62. Rush Limbaugh “The Latest on the Feminist Front” (POA)
63. Taryn Barnett “Dear Mom” (POA)
64. Nate Stulman “The Great Campus Goof Off Machine” (POA)
65. “A Call For Unity: A Letter From Eight White Clergyman” (POA)
66. Martin Luther King Jr. “A Letter From Birmingham Jail” (POA)
67. Tanya Pierce “The Importance Of Jury Instructions” (POA)
68. Jerry Adler “Building a Better Dad” (POA)
69. Chris Glaser “Marriage As We See It” (POA)
70. Sylvia Ann Hewlett “Predators and Nurturers” (POA)
71. Sylvia Ann Hewitt “The Second Shift” (POA)
72. Frank T. Rhodes “A Battle Plan for Professors to Recapture the
Curriculum” (POA)
73. Robert N. Sollod “The Hollow Curriculum” (POA)
74. Harry C. Payne “Can or Should a College Teach Virtue” (POA)
75. Kate Zernicke “The Harvard Guide to Happiness” (POA)
76. Paulo Freire “The Banking Concept of Education”
77. James Gilligan “Reflections from a Life Behind Bars: Build Colleges,
Not Prisons” (POA)
78. Alex Kozinski “Tinkering with Death” (POA)
79. Michael Moore “One Big Happy Prison” (POA)
80. Ron Powers “The Apocalypse of Adolescence” (POA)
81. Gerard Jones “Not So Alone” (POA)
82. Daniel R. Weinberger “A Brain Too Young for Good Judgment”
(POA)
83. Richard Rothstein “Fairy Tales as a Learning Tool for Young
Offenders” (POA)
84. Bell Hooks “Teaching Resistance: The Racial Politics of Mass Media”
(POA)
85. Richard Dyer “The Matter of Whiteness”
86. Esther Pan and Sherry Keene-Osborne “Culture by the Campfire”
(POA)
87. Anouar Majid “Educating Ourselves into Coexistence” (POA)
88. Edward Shapiro “American Jews and the Problem Identity” (POA)
89. Richard A. Posner “Security Versus Civil Liberties” (POA)
90. Peter Lewis “ The Tools of Freedom and Security” (POA)
91. Dana Hawkins “Body of Evidence” (POA)
92. Jeffrey Goldberg “The Color of Suspicion” (POA)
93. Lynette Clemetson and Keith Naughton “Patriotism vs. Ethnic Pride:
An American Dilemma” (POA)
94. David Brooks “ Looking Back on Tomorrow” (POA)
95. James Wood “Better Living Through Genetics” (POA)
96. Jeffrey Kluger and Andrea Dorfman “The Challenges We Face”
(POA)
97. Margaret Mead “Warfare: An Invention – Not a Biological
Necessity” (POA)
98. Victor Davis Hanson “War Will Be War: No Matter the Era, No
Matter the Weapons, the Same old Hell” (POA)
99. Eyad Sarraj “Why We Blow Ourselves Up” (POA)
100. William J. Bennett “Why We Fight” (POA)
101. William L. Ury “Getting to Peace” (POA)
102. Bruce Hoffman “All You Need Is Love” (POA)
103. Frank DeFord “Rose’s Thorns: An Idol and a Scoundrel, Pete
Represents Extremes” (Handout)
104. David Sedaris “Remembering My Childhood on the Continent of
Africa” (NS)
105. Francine Prose “I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read” (LOC)
106. Emerson “from Education” (LOC)
107. Sherman Alexie “Superman and Me” (LOC)
108. Margaret Talbot “Best in Class” (LOC)
109. James Baldwin “A Talk to Teachers” (LOC)
110. Kyoko Mori “School” (LOC)
111. Billy Collins “The History Teacher” (LOC)
112. Sandra Cisneros “Eleven” (LOC)
113. National Endowment of the Arts “from Reading at Risk”(LOC)
114. Barbara Enhenreich “from Serving in Florida” (LOC)
115. Booker T. Washington “The Atlanta Exposition Address” (LOC)
116. Richard Selzer “The Surgeon as Priest” (LOC)
117. Claudia O’Keefe “The Traveling Bra Salesman’s Lesson”(LOC)
118. Thomas Carlyle “from LAbour”(LOC)
119. Annie Dillard “from The Writing Life”(LOC)
120. Ellen Goodman “In Praise of a Snail’s Pace” (LOC)
121. Tillie Olsen “ I Stand Here Ironing”(LOC)
122. Jean Toomer “Harvest Song”(LOC)
123. J. Howard Miller “We Can Do It”(LOC)
124. Jeff Parker “The Great GAPsby Society”(LOC)
125. MLK “Letter from Birmingham Jail”(LOC)
126. Henry David Thoreau “Where I Lived, and What I Lived for”(LOC)
127. Jane Howard “All Happy Clans Are Alike”(LOC)
128. Amitai Etzioni “The New Community”(LOC)
129. Anna Quindlan “Commencement Speech at Mount Holyoke”(LOC)
130. Lori Arviso Alvord “Walking the Path Between Worlds”(LOC)
131. Edwidge Danticat “New York Day Women”(LOC)
132. Aurora Levins Morales “Child of Americas”(LOC)
133. Lee Teter “Reflections”(LOC)
134. Frederick Hart “Three Servicemen”(LOC)
135. Stephen Jay Gould “Women’s Brains”(LOC)
136. Virginia Woolf “Professions for Women”(LOC)
137. Adams “Letters”(LOC)
138. Gretel Ehrlich “About Men”(LOC)
139. Judith Ortiz Cofer “The Myth of the Latin Woman”(LOC)
140. Paul Theroux “Being a Man”(LOC)
141. Stephen Lewis “AIDS Has a Woman’s Face”(LOC)
142. Deborah Tannen “There Is No Unmarked Woman”(LOC)
143. Zora Neale Hurston “Sweat”(LOC)
144. Marge Piercy “Barbie Doll”(LOC)
145. Cathy Guisewhite “Cathy”(LOC)
146. Bill Broadway “New and Newer Versions of Scripture”(LOC)
147. Gay Talese “The Silent Season of a Hero”(LOC)
148. Theodore Roosevelt “The Proper Place for Sports”(LOC)
149. John McMurtry “Kill “Em Crush ‘Em, Eat ‘Em Raw!”(LOC)
150. Frances Willard “from How I learned to Ride a Bicycle”(LOC)
151. Kris Vervaecke “A Spectator’s Notebook”(LOC)
152. Rick Reilly “The Real New York Giants”(LOC)
153. Samuel G. Freedman “For Fasting and Football, a Dedicated Game
Plan”(LOC)
154. John Updike “Ex-Basketball Player”(LOC)
155. Maxine Kumin “Prothalamion”(LOC)
156. Edward Koren “Untitled Cartoon”
157. Richard Rodriguez “Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual
Childhood”(LOC)
158. George Orwell “Politics and the English Language”(LOC)
159. Amy Tan “Mother Tongue” (LOC)
160. Marjorie Agosin “Always Living in Spanish” (LOC)
161. Berkowitz and McFaul “Studying Islam, Strengthening the Nation”
(LOC)
162. S.I. Hayakawa “Bilingualism in America: English Should Be the
Official Language” (LOC)
163. Lan Cao “from Monkey Bridge” (LOC)
164. Chang-Rae Lee “from Native Speaker” (LOC)
165. Naomi Shihab Nye “for Mohammed Zeid of Gaza” (LOC)
166. Mike Twohy “Rumors, Lies, Innuendo” (LOC)
167. James Crawford “Census Data on Language Use in the U.S.” (LOC)
168. Loren Eiseley “The Bird in the Machine” (LOC)
169. T.H. Huxley The Method of Scientific Investigation” (LOC)
170. Jacob Bronowski “The Reach of Imagination” (LOC)
171. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi “The Future of Happiness” (LOC)
172. Steven Pinker “The Blank Slate” (LOC)
173. Ursula Franklin “Silence in the Notion of the Commons” (LOC)
174. Sven Birkerts “Into the Electronic Millennium” (LOC)
175. Elizabeth Royte “Transsexual Fogs” (LOC)
176. Poe “Sonnet to Science” (LOC)
177. Whitman “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” (LOC)
178. Brian Aldiss “Super-Toys Last All Summer Long” (LOC)
179. Carl Sagan “The Cosmic Calendar” (LOC)
180. Gahan Wilson “Food Fight” (LOC)
181. David Denby “High School Confidential: Notes on Teen Movies”
(LOC)
182. Twain “Corn-Pone Opinions” (LOC)
183. Brent Staples “Godzilla vs. the Giant Scissors” (LOC)
184. Vine Deloria “We Talk, You Listen” (LOC)
185. Danyel Smith “Dreaming America” (LOC)
186. Scott McCloud “Show and Tell” (LOC)
187. Teresa Wiltz “Popular culture in the Aftermath of September 11”
(LOC)
188. Hans Ostrom “Emily Dickinson and Elvis Presley in Heaven” (LOC)
189. Nikki Giovanni “Sanctuary: for Harry Potter the Movie” (LOC)
190. Mark Tansey “The Innocent Eye Test” (LOC)
191. Rachel Carson “from Silent Spring” (LOC)
192. Emerson “from Nature” (LOC)
193. Terry Williams “The Clan of One-Breasted Women” (LOC)
194. Chief Seattle “Message to President Franklin Pierce” (LOC)
195. Wendell Berry “An Entrance to the Woods” (LOC)
196. Wangari Maathai “2004 Nobel Peace Prize Speech” (LOC)
197. Joyce Carol Oates “Against Nature” (LOC)
198. Sarah Jewett “A White Heron” (LOC)
199. Wordsworth “The Tables Turned” (LOC)
200. Royal Dutch Shell “Cloud Issue or Clear the Air?” (LOC)
201. Asher Durand “Kindred Spirits” (LOC)
202. Jamaica Kincaid “On Seeing England for the First Time” (LOC)
203. Jonathan Swift “A Modest Proposal” (LOC)
204. Chris Hedges “from The Destruction of Culture” (LOC)
205. Oliver Goldsmith “National Prejudices” (LOC)
206. Virginia Woolf “Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid” (LOC)
207. Thoreau “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience” (LOC)
208. Wole Soyinka “Every Dictator’s Nightmare” (LOC)
209. Tim O’Brien “On the Rainy River” (LOC)
210. Yevgeny Yevtushenko “Conversation with an American Writer”
(LOC)
211. Pablo Picasso “Guernica” (LOC)
212. The New Yorker “March 17, 2003 Cover” (LOC)
213. Harper’s “April 2003 Cover” (LOC)