BASIS PHOENIX Instructional Materials 2015-2016
AP Computer Science .................................................................................................. 3
AP Environmental Science ........................................................................................... 3
AP Human Geography ................................................................................................. 4
AP Psychology............................................................................................................... 4
AP Statistics .................................................................................................................... 6
Biology ........................................................................................................................... 6
BIOLOGY 6 ....................................................................................................................................................................... 6
BIOLOGY 7 ....................................................................................................................................................................... 7
BIOLOGY 8 ....................................................................................................................................................................... 7
HONORS BIOLOGY ......................................................................................................................................................... 8
AP BIOLOGY .................................................................................................................................................................... 9
Chemistry ....................................................................................................................... 9
CHEMISTRY 6 .................................................................................................................................................................... 9
CHEMISTRY 7 .................................................................................................................................................................. 10
CHEMISTRY 8 .................................................................................................................................................................. 10
HONORS AND AP CHEMISTRY..................................................................................................................................... 11
College Counseling .................................................................................................... 11
Creative Writing ........................................................................................................... 12
Economics ................................................................................................................... 13
ECONOMICS 8 .............................................................................................................................................................. 13
AP ECONOMICS ........................................................................................................................................................... 13
Engineering Science (8-12) ....................................................................................... 14
English .......................................................................................................................... 15
ENGLISH 5 ....................................................................................................................................................................... 15
ENGLISH 6 ....................................................................................................................................................................... 16
ENGLISH 7 ....................................................................................................................................................................... 18
ENGLISH 8 ....................................................................................................................................................................... 19
HONORS ENGLISH LANGUAGE ................................................................................................................................... 20
HONORS ENGLISH LITERATURE .................................................................................................................................... 20
AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE .............................................................................................................................................. 29
AP ENGLISH LITERATURE ............................................................................................................................................... 42
History ........................................................................................................................... 51
CLASSICS 5 ..................................................................................................................................................................... 51
HISTORY 6: WORLD HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY I .................................................................................................... 52
HISTORY 7: US HISTORY ................................................................................................................................................. 53
HISTORY 8: WORLD HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY II ................................................................................................... 53
AP UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT............................................................................................................................... 53
AP EUROPEAN HISTORY & EUROPEAN HISTORY CAPSTONE................................................................................... 54
AP UNITED STATES HISTORY .......................................................................................................................................... 54
Introduction to Science 5 ........................................................................................... 55
Journalism .................................................................................................................... 55
Foreign Languages ..................................................................................................... 56
FRENCH (7-12) ............................................................................................................................................................... 56
LATIN 5 & 6 ..................................................................................................................................................................... 57
LATIN 7-9 ......................................................................................................................................................................... 58
LATIN 10-11..................................................................................................................................................................... 59
MANDARIN (7-12) ......................................................................................................................................................... 60
ELEMENTARY SPANISH (SPANISH 7) ............................................................................................................................ 61
INTERMEDIATE SPANISH (SPANISH 8) .......................................................................................................................... 62
SPANISH II (9TH GRADE) ............................................................................................................................................... 63
SPANISH III (10TH GRADE) ............................................................................................................................................ 64
SPANISH IV/PRE-AP (11TH AND 12TH GRADES) ........................................................................................................ 64
Logic 7 .......................................................................................................................... 64
Mathematics................................................................................................................ 65
MATH 8/7 ........................................................................................................................................................................ 65
PRE-ALGEBRA ................................................................................................................................................................ 65
ALGEBRA I/GEOMETRY ................................................................................................................................................ 65
ALGEBRA II/GEOMETRY ............................................................................................................................................... 65
PRECALCULUS A & PRECALCULUS AB ....................................................................................................................... 65
AP CALCULUS AB & AP CALCULUS BC...................................................................................................................... 66
MULTIVARIABLE CALCULUS.......................................................................................................................................... 66
Performing Arts ............................................................................................................ 66
ART HISTORY AND PRACTICE: BAND 6 ....................................................................................................................... 66
BAND 7 ........................................................................................................................................................................... 66
UPPER SCHOOL BAND (8-12) ...................................................................................................................................... 67
CHORUS 5 ...................................................................................................................................................................... 67
DRAMA AND THEATRE PRODUCTION (GRADES 6-12) ............................................................................................. 68
ART HISTORY AND PRACTICE: STRINGS 6 ................................................................................................................... 69
STRINGS 7 ....................................................................................................................................................................... 69
UPPER SCHOOL STRINGS AND ADVANCED ORCHESTRA ....................................................................................... 71
Physical Education...................................................................................................... 72
MARTIAL ARTS 5 & UPPER SCHOOL MARTIAL ARTS .................................................................................................. 72
PHYSICAL EDUCATION 6 & 7 ....................................................................................................................................... 72
Physical Geography 5 ................................................................................................ 72
Physics.......................................................................................................................... 73
PHYSICS 6, 7 & 8 ............................................................................................................................................................ 73
HONORS PHYSICS (AP PHYSICS 1) & AP PHYSICS 2 ................................................................................................. 74
Public Speaking & Communication .......................................................................... 75
Visual Arts .................................................................................................................... 75
VISUAL ARTS 5 ................................................................................................................................................................ 75
ART HISTORY AND PRACTICE: VISUAL ARTS 6 ........................................................................................................... 76
VISUAL ARTS 7 (2D & 3D).............................................................................................................................................. 77
ART STUDIO 2D (GRADES 8-12) ................................................................................................................................... 77
AP 2D ART/DRAWING PORTFOLIO ............................................................................................................................. 78
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY .............................................................................................................................................. 78
AP Computer Science
Required:
Litvin, Maria, and Gary Litvin. Java Methods: Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures, 2nd AP
Edition, Andover, Mass.: Skylight publishing, 2011.
Current media sources and Internet articles and blogs discussing ethical and social issues related to
computer use.
Optional, but recommended:
Reges, Stuart and Stepp, Stepp. Building Java Programs: A Back to Basics Approach, 3rd Edition. AddisonWesley, 2013.
Teacher Materials
The College Board’s Computer Science A Course Description.
AP Central Resources.
Building Java Programs Powerpoints, teacher files, and additional resources.
http://www.buildingjavaprograms.com/index.shtml
AP Environmental Science
References:
Friedland, A., Relyea, R, and Courard-Hauari, D. (2012). Environmental Science for AP. New York: W.H.
Freeman and Company/BFW
Miller, G. Tyler, Jr. (2005). Living in the Environment: Principles, Connections, and Solutions 14th edition. CA:
Brooks/Cole Thomson Learning
Withgott and Brennan (2008). Environment, the Science Behind the Stories (3rd Ed.) New York: Pearson
Gonick, Larry & Outwater, Alice (1996). Cartoon Guide to the Environment. New York:
Harper Collins.
Arms, Karen (2008). Environmental Science. Orlando: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
**It is assumed that all materials, documents, articles, and abstracts referred to in literature and materials on
this list are, likewise, considered to be proper resources, as assigned for Dr. Speyer’s classes.
Internet Resources:
http://www.birdconservationresearch.org/educators/lab_activities.php
http://www.hippocampus.org/Earth%20Science
Dr. Speyer intends to use a variety of additional instructional materials and media selections that are
consistent with the listed resources.
AP Human Geography
Textbook: Rubenstein, James M., The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography AP Edition.
11th ed., Pearson Education, Inc. (ISBN: 013292658X)
Cracking the AP Human Geography Exam, 2015 Edition by the Princeton Review (ISBN: 978-0-8041-2534-5 or
0-8041-2534-1)
Additional case studies, readings from current resources, films, aerial photos and field study work will
supplement the two main texts. Many videos are from the Power of Place: Geography for the 21st Century
video series. Other resources include (but will not be limited to) relevant articles from: The Economist, The
Week, Annual Editions: Global Issues, as well as current event articles from a collection of global to local
news sources.
AP Psychology
Psychology (9th Edition) by David G. Myers (ISBN: 9781429215978)
Students are required to purchase their own copy of the book. The ninth edition is highly recommended, but
another edition may be purchased instead. Books can be purchased from amazon.com or another source.
This textbook will be supplemented with teacher notes and handouts provided in class.
All Units:
Discovering Psychology Videos - http://www.learner.org/resources/series138.html
History of Psychology & Approaches:
Ted Talks: Why People Believe Weird Things - http://ted.us1.listmanage1.com/track/click?u=07487d1456302a286cf9c4ccc&id=fac55a3fd0&e=2228b3a6e8
Born Good? Babies Help Unlock the Origins of Morality - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRvVFW85IcU
Research Methods:
Animal Odd Couples http://dvd.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70279450&trkid=222336&strkid=577707410_2_0&strackid=569f9ad2
dbf833bf_2_srl
Solomon Asch Experiment - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYIh4MkcfJA
Biology of the Mind:
Frontline: Inside the Teenage Brain - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/view/
Neural Communication - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT3VKAr4roo
Teenage Stroke & Its Effect on Broca’s Area - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aplTvEQ6ew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUTHNS45Qmc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcjEKjJTmNk
National Geographic: The Incredible Human Body http://movies.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=60023414&trkid=13465204&tctx=0%2C25%2C27632518-b5264771-ac11-f8a7ca3f28ad-133124279
Secret Life of the Brain - http://www.pbs.org/wnet/brain/episode1/video.html
Severed Corpus Callosum - http://youtu.be/zx53Zj7EKQE
Sensation & Perception:
The Man Who Cannot Recognize Faces - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUomvaIFb_w
Cochlear Implants - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acknIvbmvp0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsOo3jzkhYA
Synesthesia – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNy23tJMTzQ
Blindsight - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw3j_fozslk
States of Consciousness:
Inattentional blindness - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGQmdoK_ZfY
The Medicated Child – http://video.pbs.org/video/1316921025/
National Geographic: The World’s Most Dangerous Drug http://movies.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70059049&trkid=13473831&tctx=0%2C17%2Ca248773a-cad54ad6-a3e1-2260f6e5af24-99963691
Neurons to Nirvana http://www.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70309247&trkid=13473831&tctx=0,6,d9bae530-5bf9-47e8-892c1e94769b1dde-276200279
Learning:
John Watson’s Little Albert Experiment - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hBfnXACsOI
Bandura’s Bobo Doll Experiment - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zerCK0lRjp8
Cognition:
Daniel Tammet: The Boy with the Incredible Brain - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbASOcqc1Ss
Loftus Ted Talk: Constructed Memories http://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_loftus_the_fiction_of_memory.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_20
13-09-28&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_content=talk_of_the_week_button
Jacob Barnett: Child Prodigy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g91IQsS2spA&feature=player_embedded
Noam Chomsky - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuUAPVFFCRQ&feature=fvwrel
Language Acquisition - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZatrvNDOiE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsaqD9FVRsM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oimnxkEj4ns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTbIG42JoY&feature=related
Motivation, Emotion, & Stress:
TED Talks Amy Cuddy: Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are http://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are.html
Stress: Portrait of a Serial Killer http://movies.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70107420&trkid=222336&strkid=851732046_0_0&strackid=43f9a
79e68d8c40e_0_srl&fdvd=true
Developmental Psychology:
Feral Children - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cymZq1VblU0
Born a Boy, Brought up a Girl - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GhbVFjIaN0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noqRhuE8_XA
Are You a Boy or a Girl – http://www.upworthy.com/a-4-year-old-girl-asked-a-lesbian-if-shes-a-boy-sheresponded-the-awesomest-way-possible
Social Psychology:
Bystander Effect - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIvGIwLcIuw
Implicit Racism - http://www.upworthy.com/if-this-is-how-the-nice-kids-think-imagine-how-the-not-so-niceones-feel-5?c=ufb1
The Milgram Experiment - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCVlI-_4GZQ
The Stanford Prison Experiment - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=760lwYmpXbc
Ted Talks: Philip Zimbardo http://www.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70236306&trkid=222336&strkid=1194031134_3_0&strackid=10ba4
ea4ae2c49c3_3_srl&fdvd=true#MovieId=70236306&EpisodeMovieId=70232885
Personality:
Carl Rogers’ Person-Centered Therapy - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBkUqcqRChg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m30jsZx_Ngs
Testing & Individual Differences:
Savant Syndrome - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKC3W0awjm0
Abnormal Behavior:
Dr. Phil Show: Dissociative Identity Disorder - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpvYvtmhkZE
The Voices Within: The Lives of Truddi Chase – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-cDqzq8ie4
Antisocial Personality Disorder - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qyCR9tPDgM#t=78
Symptom Media: Visual Learning for Behavioral Health - http://symptommedia.com/
Nova: Mind of a Rampage Killer - www.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70273189&trkid=13462100&tctx=99%2C-99%2C7ac9f843-0823-44e0-b50d-9a4410e3cc27-3475521
AP Statistics
Moore, David S., and George P. McCabe. Introduction to the Practice of Statistics. 4th ed. New York: W.H.
Freeman, 2002.
Peck, Roxy, Chris Olsen, and Jay Devore. Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis, first edition
The Princeton Review. Cracking the AP Statistics Exam 2013
Various course resources in the form of laboratories, workshops, and statistics-related video clips from the
internet.
Biology
BIOLOGY 6
TEXTBOOK
Human Body Systems and Health, 2007, Holt, Rinehart and
Winston (ISBN: 978-0-030-49968-5)
VIDEOS
Any of the Bill Nye the Science Guy episodes, Production Co: Public Broadcasting (PBS), Rating: TV “Y”: for
all children
Body Story: Breaking Down (Episode 2). Authors: Discovery Channel Video (Firm); Made for TV in the UK.
Rating: Y
Videos from Nationalgeographic.com, Kidshealth.org, learn.genetics.utah.edu, Brainpop.com,
Discovery.com, neok12.com, teach.genetics.utah.edu, howstuffworks.com, ted.com,
youtube.com/user/scishow, Khan Academy, biologyjunction.com, biologycorner.com, hhmi.org,
science.education.nih.gov, bioedonline.org
http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/28649-assignment-discovery-breaking-down-digestionvideo.htm
http://health.discovery.com/videos/heart-health-heart-attacks/
http://health.discovery.com/videos/ultimate-guide-to-pregnancy-month-one.html
http://health.discovery.com/videos/diseases-cold-flu-basics.html
http://health.discovery.com/videos/body-invaders-what-is-arthritis.html
http://health.discovery.com/videos/bob-greene-man-on-the-streets-nutrition-quiz.html
http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/6830-human-body-bone-strength-video.htm
http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/30905-why-tell-me-why-red-arteries-and-blue-veins-video.htm
http://videos.howstuffworks.com/science-channel/29103-100-greatest-discoveries-blood-flow-theoryvideo.htm
http://www.neok12.com/php/watch.php?v=zX7c724c7f7c445361627351&t=Circulatory-System
http://www.neok12.com/php/watch.php?v=zX716a5e6a5373426e405867&t=Circulatory-System
http://www.neok12.com/php/watch.php?v=zX784a525472754f71401a45&t=Nervous-System
http://www.neok12.com/php/watch.php?v=zX74620501070360606c4045&t=Nervous-System
http://www.neok12.com/php/watch.php?v=zX407d717f4d7a736e715606&t=Nervous-System
http://www.neok12.com/php/watch.php?v=zX7d76656c64606770065106&t=Skeletal-System
http://www.neok12.com/php/watch.php?v=zX5c5364565354557e44467b&t=Respiratory-System
Diagrams from A.D.A.M. Medical Encyclopedia, The Human Body Book (DK Publishing, 2007), The Human
Body eBook by Pamela Jennett and Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology by Scanlon
BIOLOGY 7
TEXTBOOKS
Microorganisms, Fungi, and Plants, 2007, Holt, Rinehart, and
Winston (ISBN: 978-0-030-49932-6)
Environmental Science, 2007, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
(ISBN: 978-0-030-50049-7)
Animals, 2007, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston (ISBN: 978-0-03049957-9)
BIOLOGY 8
TEXTBOOK
Biology (2010) by Miller & Levine ISBN 978-0133669510
The text may be downloaded in its entirety to an iPad or similar device for a nominal cost. It is a valuable
resource that supplements the lecture and other curriculum materials. Hard copies will be available in the
classroom during class periods and student support, and as arranged between the student and teacher.
VIDEOS
Any of the PBS: Becoming Human episodes, Production Co: Public Broadcasting (PBS), Rating: TV “NR”, for
Not Rated
Any of the Planet Earth or Life episodes, Production Co: Discovery, Rating :TV “NR”, for Not Rated
Any of PBS: Evolution episodes, Production Co: Public Broadcasting (PBS), Rating: TV “NR”, for Not Rated
Any of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey episodes, Production Co: 20th Century Fox, Rating: TV “NR”, for Not
Rated
Videos from Nationalgeographic.com, learn.genetics.utah.edu, Brainpop.com, Discovery.com,
neok12.com, pbs.com, teach.genetics.utah.edu, howstuffworks.com, ted.com,
youtube.com/user/scishow, multimedia.mcb.harvard.edu, Khan Academy, hhmi.org,
science.education.nih.gov, bioedonline.org, bozemanscience.com, BLAST.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi,
evolution.berkeley.edu
Diagrams and additional readings may be taken from Campbell Biology, 9th ed. and Principles of Life (Hillis,
Sadava, Heller & Price)
References:
Boardman, R., A. Cheetham, and A. Rowell, eds. (1987). Fossil Invertebrates. Blackwell Scientific
Publications. ISBN 0-86542-302-4.
Bonner, J.T., ed. (1982). Evolution and Development. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 3-540-11331-2.
Buss, L. (1987). The Evolution of Individuality. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-08469-6.
Clarkson, E.N.K. (1986). Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution. ISBN 0-04-560010-4.
Darwin, Charles (1859). On the Origin of Species (1st ed.). London: John Murray. ISBN 0-8014-1319-2.
[http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F373&viewtype=text&pageseq=1. ]
Dawkins, R. (2006). The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-929115-2.
Eldredge, N. (1985). Unfinished Synthesis. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-505574-8.
Gould, S.J. (1989). Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History. New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN
0-393-30700-X.
Gould, S.J. (2002). The Structure of Evolutionary Theory. Cambridge: Belknap Press (Harvard University Press).
ISBN 0-674-00613-5.
Maynard Smith, J. (1993). The Theory of Evolution: Canto Edition. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-52145128-0.
Maynard Smith, J. and Szathmáry, E. (1997). The Major Transitions in Evolution. Oxfordshire: Oxford University
Press. ISBN 0-19-850294-X.
Simpson, G.G. (1983). Fossils and the History of Life. Scientific American Library. ISBN 0-7167-1564-3.
Valentine, J. (1973). Evolutionary Paleoecology of the Marine Biosphere. Prentice-Hall, Inc. ISBN 0-13-2937204.
Vermeij, G. (1987). Evolution and Escalation. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-08446-7.
Internet Resources:
Carroll SB. "The Making of the Fittest". http://www.molbio.wisc.edu/carroll/Fittest.html. [video]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Evolutionary_biology . [website]
"Understanding Evolution: your one-stop resource for information on Evolution". University of California,
Berkeley. http://evolution.berkeley.edu/. [website]
"The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online". National University of Singapore. http://darwinonline.org.uk/. [website]
HONORS BIOLOGY
TEXTBOOK
Biology: Concepts and Connections , 6th
0321489845)
Edition (2008), by Campbell, Reece, Taylor, and Simon (ISBN:
References:
Boardman, R., A. Cheetham, and A. Rowell, eds. (1987). Fossil Invertebrates. Blackwell Scientific
Publications. ISBN 0-86542-302-4.
Bonner, J.T., ed. (1982). Evolution and Development. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 3-540-11331-2.
Buss, L. (1987). The Evolution of Individuality. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-08469-6.
Clarkson, E.N.K. (1986). Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution. ISBN 0-04-560010-4.
Darwin, Charles (1859). On the Origin of Species (1st ed.). London: John Murray. ISBN 0-8014-1319-2.
[http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F373&viewtype=text&pageseq=1. ]
Dawkins, R. (2006). The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-929115-2.
Eldredge, N. (1985). Unfinished Synthesis. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-505574-8.
Gould, S.J. (1989). Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History. New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN
0-393-30700-X.
Gould, S.J. (2002). The Structure of Evolutionary Theory. Cambridge: Belknap Press (Harvard University Press).
ISBN 0-674-00613-5.
Maynard Smith, J. (1993). The Theory of Evolution: Canto Edition. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-52145128-0.
Maynard Smith, J. and Szathmáry, E. (1997). The Major Transitions in Evolution. Oxfordshire: Oxford University
Press. ISBN 0-19-850294-X.
Simpson, G.G. (1983). Fossils and the History of Life. Scientific American Library. ISBN 0-7167-1564-3.
Valentine, J. (1973). Evolutionary Paleoecology of the Marine Biosphere. Prentice-Hall, Inc. ISBN 0-13-2937204.
Vermeij, G. (1987). Evolution and Escalation. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-08446-7.
Internet Resources:
Carroll SB. "The Making of the Fittest". http://www.molbio.wisc.edu/carroll/Fittest.html. [video]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Evolutionary_biology . [website]
"Understanding Evolution: your one-stop resource for information on Evolution". University of California,
Berkeley. http://evolution.berkeley.edu/. [website]
"The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online". National University of Singapore. http://darwinonline.org.uk/. [website]
Dr. Speyer intends to use a variety of additional instructional materials and media selections that are
consistent with the listed resources.
AP BIOLOGY
TEXTBOOK
Campbell et al., Biology, 8th Edition (2008)
ISBN-13: 978-0805368444 ISBN-10: 0805368442
Review Guide: http://www.bozemanscience.com/ap-biology/
VIDEOS
Any of the PBS: Becoming Human episodes, Production Co: Public Broadcasting (PBS), Rating: TV “NR”, for
Not Rated
Any of the Planet Earth or Life episodes, Production Co: Discovery, Rating :TV “NR”, for Not Rated
Any of PBS: Evolution episodes, Production Co: Public Broadcasting (PBS), Rating: TV “NR”, for Not Rated
Any of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey episodes, Production Co: 20th Century Fox, Rating: TV “NR”, for Not
Rated
Videos from Nationalgeographic.com, learn.genetics.utah.edu, Brainpop.com, Discovery.com,
neok12.com, pbs.com, teach.genetics.utah.edu, howstuffworks.com, ted.com,
youtube.com/user/scishow, multimedia.mcb.harvard.edu, Khan Academy, hhmi.org,
science.education.nih.gov, bioedonline.org, bozemanscience.com, BLAST.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi,
evolution.berkeley.edu
Diagrams and additional readings may be taken from Campbell Biology, 9th ed. and Principles of Life (Hillis,
Sadava, Heller & Price)
Chemistry
CHEMISTRY 6
Primary Text:
Living by Chemistry - Angelica Stacy
ISBN: 978-1-55953-941-8
The textbook is part of a classroom set in which students may check out books overnight. Students may
choose to purchase a home copy from amazon.com or another source. This textbook will be supplemented
with teacher notes and handouts provided in class.
Books:
Chemistry by Ramond Chang, Ninth Edition
Chemistry for Dummies II by John T. Moore
Quantitative Chemical Analysis by Daniel C. Harris, 7th edition\
Kaplan's AP Chemistry 2013-2014 study book
Videos:
Khan Academy Chemistry Videos: https://www.khanacademy.org/science/chemistry
Periodic Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/periodicvideos
Nurd Rage Instructional Chemistry Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/NurdRage
J.J. Thomson’s Cathode Ray Tube Experiment - http://youtu.be/XU8nMKkzbT8
Ernest Rutherford’s Gold Foil Experiment -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pZj0u_XMbc
Reactivity of Halogens - http://youtu.be/u2ogMUDBaf4
Reaction of Sodium in Water - http://youtu.be/ODf_sPexS2Q
Reaction of Calcium in Water - http://youtu.be/UMqPKQKamhk
Dog’s Teaching Ionic Bonding - http://boingboing.net/2012/11/12/two-very-good-dogs-teach-you-c.html
Other Websites:
Interactive Periodic Table: www.ptable.com
Youtube channels instead of demonstrations: Periodic Videos and NurdRage. (University of Nottingham, UK
with Dr. Martyn Poliakoff)
CHEMISTRY 7
Primary Text:
Living by Chemistry - Angelica Stacy
ISBN: 978-1-55953-941-8
Videos:
Hunting the Elements - http://movies.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70279454&trkid=497086
Reaction of Sodium in Water - http://youtu.be/ODf_sPexS2Q
Reaction of Calcium in Water - http://youtu.be/UMqPKQKamhk
Reactivity of Halogens - http://youtu.be/u2ogMUDBaf4
Density: Coke vs Diet Coke - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR0b4QRhfU0
J.J. Thomson’s Cathode Ray Tube Experiment - http://youtu.be/XU8nMKkzbT8
Ernest Rutherford’s Gold Foil Experiment - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pZj0u_XMbc
Dog’s Teaching Ionic Bonding - http://boingboing.net/2012/11/12/two-very-good-dogs-teach-you-c.html
Reaction of Copper in Nitric Acid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oxjJfwYt3M&feature=player_embedded
Marshmallows in a Vacuum http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EDMtCblfDC4
Self-Inflating Balloon - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcnuQoEy6wA&feature=player_embedded
Energy Diagrams - http://www.kentchemistry.com/links/Kinetics/PEDiagrams.htm
CHEMISTRY 8
Primary Text:
Living by Chemistry - Angelica Stacy
ISBN: 978-1-55953-941-8
Books:
Chemistry by Ramond Chang, Ninth Edition
Chemistry for Dummies II by John T. Moore
Quantitative Chemical Analysis by Daniel C. Harris, 7th edition\
Kaplan's AP Chemistry 2013-2014 study book
Videos:
Khan Academy Chemistry Videos: https://www.khanacademy.org/science/chemistry
Periodic Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/periodicvideos
Nurd Rage Instructional Chemistry Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/NurdRage
J.J. Thomson’s Cathode Ray Tube Experiment - http://youtu.be/XU8nMKkzbT8
Ernest Rutherford’s Gold Foil Experiment -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pZj0u_XMbc
Reactivity of Halogens - http://youtu.be/u2ogMUDBaf4
Reaction of Sodium in Water - http://youtu.be/ODf_sPexS2Q
Reaction of Calcium in Water - http://youtu.be/UMqPKQKamhk
Dog’s Teaching Ionic Bonding - http://boingboing.net/2012/11/12/two-very-good-dogs-teach-you-c.html
Other Websites:
Interactive Periodic Table: www.ptable.com
Youtube channels instead of demonstrations: Periodic Videos and NurdRage. (University of Nottingham, UK
with Dr. Martyn Poliakoff)
HONORS AND AP CHEMISTRY
Primary Texts:
Brown, Theodore et al. Chemistry: The Central Science, 11th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2008. ISBN: 0136006175
College Board, AP Chemistry Guided-Inquiry Experiments: Applying the Science Practices , New York,
NY, College Board, 2013. Item #120085065
Supplementary Texts:
th
Moog, Richard and John Farrell, Chemistry: A Guided Inquiry , 5 Edition, John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2012.
ISBN: 978-0-470-64790-5
Duncan, Laura et al. Fast Track to a 5: Preparing for the AP Chemistry Examination , Belmont, CA,
Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning, 2014.
ISBN: 978-1-133-61151-6
The Cavalcade of Teaching - https://teachercavalcade.wordpress.com/
Chemmy Bear - http://chemmybear.com/
Mr. Kent’s Chemistry Page - http://www.kentchemistry.com/
Hunting the Elements - http://movies.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70279454&trkid=497086
Reaction of Sodium in Water - http://youtu.be/ODf_sPexS2Q
Reaction of Calcium in Water - http://youtu.be/UMqPKQKamhk
Reactivity of Halogens - http://youtu.be/u2ogMUDBaf4
Density: Coke vs Diet Coke - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR0b4QRhfU0
J.J. Thomson’s Cathode Ray Tube Experiment - http://youtu.be/XU8nMKkzbT8
Ernest Rutherford’s Gold Foil Experiment - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pZj0u_XMbc
Portal to Hell - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oRngPHRj0vA
Reaction of Copper in Nitric Acid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oxjJfwYt3M&feature=player_embedded
Marshmallows in a Vacuum http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EDMtCblfDC4
Self-Inflating Balloon - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcnuQoEy6wA&feature=player_embedded
College Counseling
We will be using various materials from many college planning sources. Sources may include the following:
Books from The College Board: The College Handbook (2014), Book of Majors (2014), Getting Financial Aid
(2014), The Scholarship Handbook (2014), College Counseling Sourcebook (7th Ed.)
Publications from The Princeton Review: “The Portable Guidance Counselor (978-0-375-42936-1),” “What
Smart Students Know (978-0-517-88085-2),” “Paying for College Without Going Broke (978-0-8041-2436-2),”
America’s Best Value Colleges (978-0-8041-2447-8)”
“The College Finder” (9781933119861): Antonoff, Steven R., 2008
“Colleges that Change Lives” (9780143122302) Pope, Loren, 2006
“What You Don’t Know Can Keep You Out of College” (9781592403028) Dunbar, Don, 2007
“America’s Best Colleges for B Students” (9781617600333) Orr, Tamara B., 2013
“Write Out Loud” (9780071828284) Barash, Carol, 2014
“The Dirty Little Secrets of Getting Into a Top College” (9781941393024) Chatterjee, Pria, 2015
“Getting in by Standing Out” (9781599325590)Bedor, Deborah, 2015
“Cool Colleges: For the Hyper-Intelligent, Self-Directed, Late Blooming or Just Plain Different”
(9781580088398) Asher, Donald, 2007
“How to Prepare a Standout College Application” (9781118414408) Cooper Chisolm, Allison and Ivey,
Anna, 2013
“50 Successful Harvard Application Essays” (9781250048059) Staff of the Harvard Crimson, 2014
“Major Decisions: A Guide to College Majors” (978-1878172709): Blumenthal, Richard A., 1996
www.naviance.com (Includes “Family Connection” resources for students and parents)
www.collegeboard.com
www.actstudent.org
www.azcentral.com
www.collegexpress.com
www.collegecounseling.org
www.nextstepu.com
www.ctcl.org
www.collegeweeklive.com
www.nacacnet.org
www.urbanschool.org
http://mindmapblog.com
www.collegemagazine.com
www.nrccua.org
www.collegeview.com
New York Times (online and in print)
The Wall Street Journal (online and in print)
www.fafsa.ed.gov
www.studentaid.ed.gov
www.scholarships.com
www.fastweb.com
www.cappex.com
www.collegenet.com
www.collegeconfidential.com
www.wiredscholar.com
http://scholarshipamerica.org
www.finaid.org
http://petersons.com
www.princetonreview
Additionally, we will use a wide variety of college/university websites and materials, based on student
interest.
All necessary reading materials for the College Counseling Workshop will be provided to the students,
however some resources may be recommended for purchase throughout the year. Students must bring
required supplies and current class materials with them for each class period.
Creative Writing
Required Texts
Sol Stein, Stein on Writing (ISBN-13: 978-0312254216, ISBN-10: 0312254210)
Supplemental Texts (will be provided throughout the year)
These may include readings from:
Stephen King, On Writing
Janet Burroway, Imaginative Writing
John Gardner, The Art of Fiction
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones
Dorothea Brandt, Becoming a Writer
Ann Charters, The Story and its Writer
David Ball, Backwards and Forwards
Jeffrey Sweet, The Dramatist’s Toolkit
Aristotle’s Poetics
Ted Kooser, The Poetry Home-Repair Manual
David Trottier, The Screenwriter’s Bible
Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics and Making Comics
Selections from the Norton Anthology of Literature and other Norton Anthologies
William Zinsser, On Writing Well
William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White, The Elements of Style
Fowler’s Modern American Usage
Short stories, plays, screenplays, graphic novels, and essays from, but not limited to, the following authors:
Ray Bradbury, Mark Twain, George Orwell, Langston Hughes, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Ursula
LeGuin, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, J.R.R. Tolkien, Ernest Hemingway, Neil Gaiman, O. Henry, Robert Heinlein,
Anton Chekhov, Douglas Adams, Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Henrik Ibsen, William Shakespeare, William
Goldman, Frank Miller, Alan Moore, Flannery O’Connor, Edgar Allen Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Margaret Atwood,
Tennessee Williams, Dave Barry, Arthur Miller, Kazu Kabuishi, Oscar Wilde, Art Spiegelman.
Poems primarily taken from the archives of the Poetry Foundation at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/
and the Library of Congress Poetry 180 Project at https://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/p180-list.html
We will watch occasional video clips of TED Talks, plays, poetry & fiction readings, movie clips, and other
writing-related material from http://youtube.com.
Students will also be asked to bring in material they’ve read that they would like to discuss – poems, essays,
stories, or other pieces of writing that may show an example of what to do (or not to do) – to share with the
class. These are required to be school-appropriate, but any other restrictions will stem solely from the
assignment.
The class will also participate in National Novel Writing Month – NaNoWriMo – in November. See
http://nanowrimo.org.
Other web resources we may use:
http://wikipedia.org
http://amazon.com
http://goodreads.com
http://www.dailywritingtips.com/
http://www.build-creative-writing-ideas.com/
Economics
ECONOMICS 8
Primary Textbook:
Principles of Economics (6th edition) G. Mankiw
AP ECONOMICS
Primary Textbooks:
Crash Course Micro and Macro
Economics, 18th Edition McConnell, Brue, and Flynn
Supplements:
Barron’s and 5 Steps to a 5 Micro and Macro
Common Across all Economics Courses
Reference Textbooks:
Principles of Economics (6th edition) G. Mankiw
Economics: Private and Public Choice (11th edition) Gwartney, Stroup, Sobel, and Macpherson
Exchange and Production (3rd Edition) Alchian and Allen
Microeconomics (6th Edition) Pindyck and Rubinfeld
Supplementary books and journal articles:
The Armchair Economist, S. Landsburg
I, Pencil, L. Reed
Human Action, L. Mises
The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
The Undercover Economist, Tim Harford
The Price of Everything, R. Roberts
Unintended Consequences, E. Conrad
Moneyball, M. Lewis
“The Nature of the Firm” (1937), R. Coase
“The Use of Knowledge in Society” (1945), F.A. Hayek
“The Problem of Social Cost” (1960), R. Coase
“Growing World Trade: Causes and Consequences” (2001), P. Krugman
“An-arrgh-chy: The Law and Economics of Pirate Organization” (2007), P. Leeson
Articles and segments selected from periodicals and news organizations:
The Economist
The Wall Street Journal
Freakonomics
Planet Money
Marketplace
This American Life
The Nightly Business Report
EconTalk
Selected Youtube clips from channels such as:
EconStories
StosselClassroom
ReasonTV
The Commanding Heights
CrashCourse
Experiments and material from websites:
Veconlab.com
Becker-posner-blog.com
Gregmankiw.blogspot.com
noahpinionblog.blogspot.co.uk
johnhcochrane.blogspot.com
blog.supplysideliberal.com
Coordinationproblem.org
marginalrevolution.com
Engineering Science (8-12)
Text:
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough and Michael Braungart
ISBN: 978-0-86547-587-8, ISBN10: 0-86547-587-3
Websites:
http://www.engineering.com/
http://www.efunda.com/home.cfm
http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/
http://www.howstuffworks.com/
http://www.eng-tips.com/
http://www.discoverengineering.org/
http://www.fun-engineering.net/
http://www.manufacturingiscool.com/
http://www.futuresinengineering.com/
http://www.engineeryourlife.org/
http://www.tryengineering.org/
http://www.egfi-k12.org/
http://thecivilengineer.org/
http://thestructuralengineer.info/
http://www.engr.usask.ca/currentstudents/classes.php
http://engineering.stanford.edu/announcement/stanford-announces-16-online-courses-fall-quarter
http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/
English
ENGLISH 5
Full Texts:
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Weedflower by Cynthia Kadahota
The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
Shurley Grammar Student Workbook 5
Optional/Alternates:
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
The Thief by Meghan Whalen Turner
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Beowulf translated by Burton Raffel
In-Class Supplemental Materials: Supplemental materials will be provided in class by the teacher and
include, but are not limited to: short stories, essays, poems, excerpts from other works of literature, historical
documents, articles, video clips, musical pieces, artwork, and any other medium that complements our
units of study in order to enhance the learning experience and further understanding.
Examples of possible pieces:
Poetry:
Various selections from the archives at Poetry180.com and the Poetry Foundation
“The Hunting of the Snark” and "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll
Selected sonnets by William Shakespeare
Short Stories/Essays:
Selected stories from The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction (8th Ed)
Selected stories from You’ve Got to Read This edited by Ron Hansen
Selected works from the Project Gutenberg archives
“Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros
“The Nose” by Nikolai Gogol
“A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell
“The White Seal”, “The Elephant’s Child”, and “Riki-Tiki-Tavi”by Rudyard Kipling
“To Build a Fire” by Jack London
“All Summer in A Day” by Ray Bradbury
“My Name” by Sandra Cisneros
“Three Questions” by Leo Tolstoy
“The Three Linden Trees” by Hermann Hesse
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving
“Down the Rabbit Hole” by Lewis Carroll
"Beowulf and the Monsters" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Excerpts from:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Trickster: Native American Tales: A Graphic Collection by Matt Dembicki
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney
The Odyssey by Homer
The Tain translated by Ciaran Carson
The Norse Myths by Kevin Crossley-Holland
The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
Selected excerpts from Shakespeare's The Tempest, Julius Caesar, and The Merry Wives of Windsor
Le Morte D’Arthur by Thomas Malory
This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing by Finegan Kurckemeyer
Etc.
Short stories and poems will be provided in class and selected from a variety of authors such the following:
Aesop, Anderson, Angelou, Auden, Avi, Blake, Bradbury, Campbell, Carroll, Chesterton, Collins, Cooper,
Creech, Cullen, Dahl, de Maupasant, Dickinson, Emerson, Fargeon, Frost, Goodrich, Goscinny & Sempe,
Graham, Grimm, Hackett, Heinrich, Hughes, Hurst, Kipling, London, Longfellow, MacLachlan, Merriam,
Nash, Paterson, Peck, Poe, Rawls, Salinger, Shakespeare, Thayer, Thurber, Twain, Walker, Whitman, Whittier,
Wilder, Wittlinger, Wordsworth, as well as selections found in The Harp and Laurel Wreath: Poetry and
Dictation for the Classical Curriculum and The Norton Anthology of Poetry.
Translations of world mythology and oral traditions including the epic of Gilgamesh, Native American stories
and story cycles, tall tales of the American West, the Mabinogion, Grimms’ and Andersen’s fairy tales, the
Mahabarata, etc.
ENGLISH 6
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert O'Brien ISBN-10: 0689710682 ISBN-13: 978-0689710681
The Giver by Louis Lowry ISBN-10: 0440237688 ISBN-13: 978-0440237686
The Hobbit By J.R.R. Tolkien ISBN-10: 054792822X ISBN-13: 978-0547928227
Shurley English Level 6
Shurley English Student Workbook Level 6 ISBN 978-1-58561-263-5
Painless Writing by Jefferey Strausser ISBN-10: 0764142348 ISBN-13: 978-0764142345
Painless Grammar by Jefferey Strausser ISBN-10: 0764147129 ISBN-13: 978-0764147128
Grammar for Middle School: A Sentence-Composing Approach--A Student Worktext by Killgallon, Don;
Killgallon, Jenny ASIN: B0087I66DC
Writers INC: A Student Handbook for Writing and Learning (Write Source) by Patrick Sebranek, Dave
Kemper, Verne Meyer, Chris Krenzke
The Complete Writer: Level Two Workbook for Writing with Ease by Susan Wise Bauer ISBN-10: 1933339292
ISBN-13: 978-1933339290
Short Stories:
“Charles” by Shirley Jackson
“Everyday Use” by Alice Walker
“The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe
“Man and Daughter in the Cold” by John Updike
“The Stone Boy” by Gina Berriault
“Flight” by John Steinbeck
“True Love” by Issac Asimov
“Raymond’s Run” by Toni Cade Bambara
“The Landlady” by Roald Dahl
“Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl
“Santa Claus in Baghdad: A Story from Iraq” by Elsa Marston
“The Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury
“Tell Me Who You Hang Out With and I’ll Tell You What You Are” by Eleanora E. Tate
Essays
Breakfast on Mars edited by Rebecca Stern and Brad Wolfe (selections)
The Declaration of Independence
“Supersize Your Fries with This Column” by Dave Barry
Living up the Street by Gary Soto
Poetry
“America the Beautiful” by Katherine Lee Bates
“I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman
“I, Too, Sing America” by Langston Hughes
“The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus
“Angel Island Poems” by anonymous
“My Uncle’s Favorite Coffee Shop” by Naomi Shihab Nye
“Immigrant Picnic” by Gregory Djanikan
“Prospective Immigrants Please Take Note” by Adrienne Rich
“Twelfth Song of the Thunder” from the Navajo
“The Railway Train” by Emily Dickenson
“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost
“This Is Just To Say” by William Carlos Williams
“Oranges” by Gary Soto
“Chicago” by Carl Sandburg
Additional resources:
www.grammaruntied.com
www.chompchomp.com
Purdue Online Writing Lab
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
The Norton Anthology: American Literature, 7th Edition, Volume B
The Norton Anthology: English Literature, 8th Edition, Volume D
The Norton Anthology: English Literature, 8th Edition, Volume E
The Norton Anthology: English Literature, 8th Edition, Volume F
Jewish American Literature: a Norton anthology
The Norton Anthology: American Literature, shorter 7th edition, Volume 2
The Norton Anthology: American Literature, 7th edition, volume A
Writers INC: A Student Handbook for Writing and Learning
Parallel Myths by J.F. Bierlein
American Indian Myths and Legends selected and edited by Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz
Worlds of Fiction 2nd edition edited by Roberta Rubenstein and Charles R. Larson
A Walk in my World: International Short Stories about Youth, Edited by Anne Mazer
The Elements of Style 4th edition by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White
Easy Writer: A Pocket Reference 3rd edition
Daily Warm-ups: Poetry by Shari Goldberg
Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, and Drama by Robert DiYanni
Sentence Composing for Middle School by Don Killgallon
The World’s Greatest Short Stories edited by James Daley
Short edited by Alan Ziegler 2nd Edition
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories edited by Joyce Carol Oates
The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation by Lester Kaufman, Jane Straus, and Tom Stern
Helping Verbs song for Children by Patty Shukla
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77WEV55NNbU
M.E.A.L. plan writing
http://learners.ncu.edu/writingprogram/writing_center.aspx?menu_id=130
ENGLISH 7
Easy Grammar Ultimate Series: 180 Daily Teaching Lessons - Grade 8 Student Workbook ISBN: 978-0-936981376
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck ISBN: 978-0-74-971710-0 (to be purchased by students)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee ISBN: 978-0-446-31078-9--(to be purchased by students)
The Human Comedy by William Saroyan ISBN: 978-0-440-33933-5--(to be purchased by students)
The Harp and Laurel Wreath: Poetry and Diction for the Classical Curriculum (selected works) Editor: Laura
M. Berquist. ISBN: 978-1-58617-691-4
The Norton Anthology of American Literature (Fifth Edition) (Vols. A & B)
Editor: S. Greenblatt & C. T. Christ, et al. ISBN: 978-0393913002
Glencoe Literature: Grammar and Language Workbook, Course 2
Selected stories/poems by the following authors:
Alexander, Lloyd
Auden, W.H.
Blake, William
Bombeck, Erma
Bradbury, Ray
Carroll, Lewis
Connell, Richard
Crane, Stephen
De Maupassant, Guy
Dickinson, Emily
Einstein, Albert
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Faulkner, William
Forster, E.M.
Franklin, Benjamin
Hawthorn, Nathaniel
Jackson, Shirley
Kafka, Franz
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Lincoln, Abraham
London, Jack
Longfellow, H.W.
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
Merriam, Eve
Nash, Ogden
Orwell, George
Poe, Edgar Allen
Rand, Ayn
Shakespeare, William
Thayer, Ernest Lawrence
Thurber, James
Twain, Mark
Vonnegut, Kurt
Whitman, Walter
Yeats, William Butler
Internet sources:
Grammar Bytes (www.chompchomp.com)
No Red Ink (noredink.com)
www.grammaruntied.com
Purdue Online Writing Lab (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl)
Brain pickings (brainpickings.org)
ENGLISH 8
Novels
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, ISBN: 978-0743477116 or 978-190633261
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass ISBN: 978-0486284996
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, ISBN: 978-0743273565
Haroun & the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie, ISBN: 978-1560776659
Texts
Daily Grams: Grade 8 by Dr. Wanda Phillips 978-0-936981-369
Basic Composition Student Workbook by the Center for Learning
Sentence Composing for High School by Don Killgallon ISBN: 978-0867094282
Handouts include but are not limited to short stories and essays by Ray Bradbury, Mark Twain, George
Orwell, Langston Hughes, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jewell Parker Rhodes, Joan Didion, Kurt Vonnegut, Ursula
LeGuin, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Dave Eggars, Neil Gaiman, Kate Chopin, O. Henry, Sherman Alexie,
Jhumpa Lahiri, Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allen Poe, Anton Chekhov, Robert Heinlein, Henrik Ibsen, and
Oscar Wilde.
Reference
A Handbook to Literature, 12th Edition, by William Harmon
Easy Grammar Plus by Dr. Wanda Phillips
WriteSource 2000: A Guide to Writing, Thinking, and Learning, published by Houghton Mifflin Co.
Elements of Language Workbook, published by Holt, Rinehardt & Winston
Sentence Composing for High School, by Killgallon and Killgallon
Roget’s International Thesaurus
Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary
The Elements of Style 4th edition by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White
Easy Writer: A Pocket Reference 3rd edition
Writers INC: A Student Handbook for Writing and Learning
The Little Seagull Handbook by Richard Bullock Francine Weinberg
Fowler’s Modern English Usage, Second Edition
100 Trait-Specific Comments for Middle School
Myth and the Movies, by Stuart Voytilla
Whitfield’s University Rhyming Dictionary
Peter’s Quotations
Warfare in the Classical World, by John Warry
Don’t Forget to Write for the Secondary Grades, by 826 National and Jennifer Traig
On Writing Well, by William Zinsser
Follett’s Modern American Usage
Websites
www.grammaruntied.com
www.chompchomp.com
Purdue Online Writing Lab
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
The Poetry Foundation
www.poetryfoundation.org
Poetry 180 Project of the Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/p180-list.html
www.ReadWorks.org
http://www.classicreader.com/
http://www.readwritethink.org/
http://www.mimioconnect.com/
http://www.wikipedia.org/
http://goodreads.com/
The New York Times: www.nyt.com
The Effective Reader online lab manual:
http://wps.ablongman.com/long_henry_er_1/
Anthologies
The Norton Anthology: American Literature, 7th Edition, Volume B
The Norton Anthology: English Literature, 8th Edition, Volume D
The Norton Anthology: English Literature, 8th Edition, Volume E
The Norton Anthology: English Literature, 8th Edition, Volume F
Jewish American Literature: a Norton anthology
The Norton Anthology: American Literature, shorter 7th edition, Volume 2
The Norton Anthology: American Literature, 7th edition, volume A
The Norton Introduction to Poetry, Fourth Edition
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, Second Edition
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: 50 North American Stories Since 1970
Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology
Midnight Birds: Stories of Contemporary Black Women Writers
Parallel Myths by J.F. Bierlein
American Indian Myths and Legends selected and edited by Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz
Worlds of Fiction 2nd edition edited by Roberta Rubenstein and Charles R. Larson
A Walk in my World: International Short Stories about Youth, Edited by Anne Mazer
Daily Warm-ups: Poetry by Shari Goldberg
Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, and Drama by Robert DiYanni
The New Journalism, edited by Tom Wolfe
Points of View: An Anthology of Short Stories, 1966 edition
Philosophy and Science Fiction, edited by Michael Phillips
Multi-Media
Selected videos on English topics from TED Talks and YouTube
HONORS ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Wardle, Elizabeth and Doug Downs. Writing about Writing. Bedford / St. Martin’s 2011.
Current-Garcia, Eugene and Walton R. Patrick. American Short Stories. Scott, Foresman and Company.
1964.
Payne, Lucile Vaughan. The Lively Art of Writing. Penguin. 1969.
Langer, Judith A. Envisioning Literature. Teachers College Press. 1995.
Hirschberg, Stuart and Terry Hirschberg. One World, Many Cultures. Pearson. 2012.
Walter Lord. A Night to Remember (Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; ISBN: 978-0-8050-7764-3)
William Strunk and E.B. White. The Elements of Style (Publisher: Longman; ISBN: 9780205309023)
H. G. Wells. The War of the Worlds (Publisher: Dover Publishing; ISBN: 978-048629506-0)
www.ted.com
owl.english.purdue.edu/
bartleby.com
60secondrecap.com
https://www.discoveryeducation.com/search/page/9-12/english-language-arts/-/-/index.cfm
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/
HONORS ENGLISH LITERATURE
This course introduces students to readings, concepts, and practices necessary for achievement on the AP
English Literature and Composition exam. Each literary work has appeared on past AP Literature exams and
have been carefully selected to prepare our Phoenix BASIS students for AP success, and ultimately, success
in college.
Main Texts
Antigone by Sophocles
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Metamorphoses by Ovid
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Additional Authors: Stories, Excerpts, Poetry, and Literary Criticism
“A Man Told Me The Story of his Life,” Grace Paley
“Beach Town,” Amy Hempel
“Bernice Bobs Her Hair,” F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Big Two-Hearted River, Pt. 2,” Ernest Hemingway
“Boys,” Rick Moody
“Dirty Wedding,” Denis Johnson
“Everything that Rises Must Converge,” Flannery O’Connor
“Feathers,” Raymond Carver
“In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried,” Amy Hempel
“Keith,” Ron Carlson
“Little Things,” Raymond Carver
“Mike LeFevre,” from Working
“Mixed Blood Stew,” Jewell Parker Rhodes
“Rothschild’s Fiddle,” Anton Chekhov
“Seizing Control,” Mary Robison
“Shitty First Drafts,” Anne Lamott (will black out “sh” vernacular)
“Small Avalanches,” Joyce Carol Oates
“Story,” Lydia Davis
“The Barber’s Unhappiness,” George Saunders
“The Killers,” Ernest Hemingway
“The School,” Donald Barthelme
“The Swimmer” John Cheever
“The Things They Carried,” Tim O’Brien
“Tool Box,” Stephen King
“Trilobites,” Breece D’J Pancake
“You’re Ugly, Too,” Lorrie Moore
Achebe, “An Image of Africa”
Adichie, “The Headstrong Historian”
Alice Walker, “Everyday Use”
Allan Gurganis, “Gurganis on Stephen Crane’s ‘The Open Boat’” or “Caucasian”
Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
Amy Bloom, “The Story”
Amy Tan, “Rules of the Game”
Angelas Ashes – Frank McCourt
Barry Hannah, “Hannah on Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’”
Bradbury, “The Pedestrian” and other short stories
Charlotte Perkins
Chekov, “The Looking Glass”
Conrad, “The Congo Diary”
D.H. Lawrence, “Why the Novel Matters”
Dahl, “Man of the South”
David Foster Wallace
Earnest Hemingway, “A Clean Well-Lighted Place” or “Hills Like White Elephants”
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher” or “The Masque of the Red Death” or “The Purloined
Letter”
Eliot, Excerpts from the play “Family Reunion”
Ernest Hemingway – “Hills Like White Elephants”
Excerpt from “Heaven,” Mary Gaitskill
Excerpt from “Him With His Foot in His Mouth,” Saul Bellow
Excerpt from “The Mezzanine,” Nicholson Baker
Excerpts from Davies’s Orchestra
Excerpts from Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
Excerpts from Faust
Excerpts from Machiavelli’s The Prince
Excerpts from Nietzsche’s The Genealogy of Morals
Excerpts from Virgil’s “Aeneid”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Babylon Revisited”
Fairy tales of Oscar Wilde
Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily”
Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man is Hard to Find” or “The Life You Save May Be Your Own,” or “Good
Country People”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gates, “Blackness of Blackness: A Critique of the Sign and Signifying Monkey”
George Saunders
Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown”
Henry James, “Greville Fane”
Isaac Bashevis Singer, “Gimpel the Fool”
Isabel Allende, “The Stories of Eva Luna”
Jackson, “The Bus”
James Joyce, “Araby” or excerpts from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Jhumpa Lahiri - "A Temporary Matter"
John Cheever, “The Enormous Radio”
John Keats, “Bright Star”
John Steinbeck, “The Chrysanthemums”
John Updike, “A & P” or “Who Made Yellow Roses Yellow?”
Jorge Luis Borges, “The South”
Joyce Carol Oates, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”
Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour”
L e Guin, “The Ones Who Walked Away From Omelas”
Leo Tolstoy, “The Death of Ivan Ilych” or “Three Questions”
Lessing, “The Old Chief Mshlanga”
Mansfield, “Miss Brill”
Margaret Atwood, “Death by Landscape”
Mark Twain, “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” or excerpts from Huckleberry Finn
Melville, “Bartleby the Scrivener”
Melville, “Benito Cereno”
Menedez, “In Cuba I was a German Shepherd”
Mukherjee, “Two Ways to Belong in America”
Nabokov Selected Texts
Nathaniel Hawthorne Selected Texts
Nikolai Gogol, “The Nose”
O’Connor, “A Stroke of Good Fortune”
Philip Roth, “The Conversion of the Jews”
Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart”
Porter, “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”
Ralph Ellison, “King of the Bingo Game” or “An Interview”
Ray Bradbury, “A Sound of Thunder” or “The Veldt”
Richard Wright, “The Man Who Was Almost a Man”
Rushdie, “The Shelter of the World”
Salman Rushdie, “The Free Radio”
Sherwood Anderson, “I Want to Know Why”
Shirley Jackson, “The Lottery”
Stephen Crane, “The Open Boat”
Stephen King – “The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet”
Sylvia Plath, “Metaphors” and “The Mirror” and “Old Ladies’
Amy Tan, “Two Kinds”
Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience”
Thurber, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”
Tim O’Brien Selected Texts
Truman Capote, “Miriam”
Virginia Woolf, “Kew Gardens”
Vonnegut, “Harrison Bergeron”
Wainaina, “How to Write about Africa”
Washington, 1895 Atlanta Exposition Address
Wilde, “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime” and Selected Texts
Wilde, Intentions
Willa Cather, “A Wagner Matinee”
William Carlos Williams, “The Use of Force”
William Faulkner, “Barn Burning”
Zora Neale Hurston, “The Conscience of the Court” or “Spunk
Darin Strauss Handout
“The School,” Donald Barthelme
“A Good Man is Hard to Find,” Flannery O’Connor
“We Have Always Lived in the Castle,” Shirley Jackson
Jorge Louis Borges – “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”
Barry Hannah – “Bats out of Hell Division”
Wells Tower – “Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned”
David Foster Wallace – “The Suffering Channel”
Breece DJ Pancake – “Trilobites”
Flannery O’Connor – “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
Barry Hannah – “Testimony of Pilot,”
Donald Ray Pollock – “Real Life”
Larry Brown – “Big, Bad Love”
Adam Atlas – “New Year’s Weekend on the Hand Surgery Ward, Old Pilgrims’
Hospital, Naples, Italy”
Eudora Welty – “Death of a Traveling Salesman”
Christian Moody – “Horusville”
George Saunders – “CivilWarLand in Bad Decline”
Keith Lee Morris – “Tired Heart”
James Joyce – “Araby”
Boomer Pinches – “Bethlehem is Full”
Ernest Hemingway – “The Killers”
John Cheever – “The Country Husband”
Italo Calvino – If on a winter’s night a traveler
Marcel Bénabou – Why I Have Not Written Any Of My Books (Excerpt)
“Write What You Don’t Know” by Bret Anthony Johnston
Additional Writers
Flannery O’Connor
James Joyce
Yasunari Kawabata
“Happy Endings” by Margaret Atwood
Anton Chekov
Joyce Carol Oates
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
John Updike
George Saunders
David Foster Wallace
Ha Jin
Deborah Eisenberg
Jhumpa Lahiri
ZZ Packer
Junot Diaz
Ernest Hemingway
John Cheever
Amy Hempel
Eudora Welty
Skylark by Dezso Kosztolany
Jane Bowles
“Fiesta, 1980,” Junot Diaz
“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” Ursula Le Guin
Janet Burroway, ― “I Gotta Use Words When I Talk to You”
Flannery O’Connor, “The Nature and Aim of Fiction”
Ron Carlson, “Keith” and ―Notes on Keith
Janet Burroway, “Play it Again, Sam”
Kim Addonizio, “The Energy of Revision”
New Yorker article ―Rough Crossings and Edits of Carver’s story
Zadie Smith’s “That Crafty Feeling”
“Write What You Don’t Know” by Bret Anthony Johnston
“Happy Endings” by Margaret Atwood
“Paris,” Lorrie Moore
“A Model World,” Michael Chabon
Roland Barthes, “Death of the Author”
Flannery O’Connor, “The Nature and Aim of Fiction”
“Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,” Jonathan Safran Foer (First chapter)
“Girl,” Jamaica Kincaid
“Isabel Fish,” Julie Orringer
“What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,” Raymond Carver
“Beginners,” Raymond Carver
“The Bear Came Over the Mountain,” Alice Munro
“Stone Animals,” Kelly Link
“Something to Remember Me By,” Saul Bellow
“Autobiography, 1952,” Yehuda Amichai
“Drops in the Bucket,” Kay Ryan.
“I taste a liquor never brewed ” Emily Dickinson
“Question,” May Swenson
“The Railway Children,” Seamus Heaney
“anyone lived in a pretty how town,” e.e cummings
“Poem,” Matthew Rohrer.
“Storm Windows,” Howard Nemerov
“One Art,” Elizabeth Bishop
“Line and Syntax,” Robert Pinsky. 24-49
“Sonnet CXLVII,” Shakespeare
“Those Winter Sundays,” Robert Hayden
“Even the Rain,” Agha Shahid Ali
“Do not go gentle into that good night,” Dylan Thomas
“Some Last Questions,” W.S Merwin.
“Unconscious,” “Came a Beauty,” and “Stone Gullets,” May Swenson.
“Il Pluet,” Guillaume Apollinaire.
“A Green Crab’s Shell,” Mark Doty
“Swarm,” Nick Flynn
“The Compass,” Carl Phillips
“Toad,” “Notes on a Winter Journey,” Norman MacCaig
“In a Station of the Metro,” Ezra Pound
“This is Just to Say” & “The Red Wheelbarrow,” William Carlos Williams.
“Camouflaging the Chimera,” Yusef Komunyakaa
“The Armadillo,” Elizabeth Bishop
“My Shoes,” Charles Simic
“A Bag of Mice,” Nick Flynn.
“A Blessing,” James Wright
“Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio,” James Wright
“Adolescence-II,” Rita Dove
“In the Waiting Room,” Elizabeth Bishop
“Eros,” Louise Gluck
“Getting it Right,” Matthew Dickman
“Backyard Mermaid,” Matthea Harvey
“The Dream Songs,” John Berryman
“This Hour and What is Dead,” Li-Young Lee
“The Truth the Dead Know,” Anne Sexton
“The Promise,” “The Glass,” Sharon Olds
“Daddy,” Sylvia Plath
“Crossword,” “Belarusian I,” Valzhyna Mort (trans. Franz Wright)
“Grandfather Says”
“The Other Side of a River,” Charles Wright
“Rain Downriver,” Philip Levine
“The Drowned Children,” Louise Gluck
“The Bear,” Galway Kinnell
“The Prediction,” Mark Strand
“The Dreadful Has Already Happened,” Mark Strand
“I am Much Too Alone in This World, Yet Not Alone,” Rainer Maria
William Shakespeare – Sonnets 130 and 29
Richard Brautigan – “Gee, You’re So Beautiful that it’s Starting to Rain”
Dylan Thomas – “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night”
Elizabeth Bishop – “One Art”
William Carlos Williams – “This Is Just to Say”
Anne Sexton – “Ringing the Bells”
James Emanuel – “’I’m a Jazz Singer’ She Replied”
Robert Lowell – “Skunk Hour”
William Wordsworth – “Imitations of Immortality”
William Blake – “The Tyger”
Wilfred Owen – “Dulce et Decorum Est”
T.S. Eliot – “The Wasteland” parts I and II
Wallace Stevens – “The Emperor of Ice-Cream”
Adrienne Rich – “Two Songs”
Ted Berrigan – “Sunday Morning”
Ezra Pound – “The River Merchant’s Wife”
Robert Lowell – “Memories of West Street and Lepke”
Henry Reed – “Naming of Parts”
Robert Frost – “A Patch of Old Snow”
Frank O’Hara – “Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed)”
“A Brief Guide to Poetry,” Robert Pinsky
“Acquainted with the Night” by Robert Frost
“Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town” by E.E. Cummings
“First Grade” by Ron Koertge
“Love Poem” by John Frederick Nims
“The Bait” by John Donne
“The Flea” by John Donne
“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlow
“The Schoolchildren” by Louis Gluck
“To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell
“We grow accustomed to the dark” by Emily Dickinson
Adrienne Rich
Allen Ginsberg (limited excerpts )
Atwood, “Siren Song”
Auden, “The Unknown Citizen”
Basho, Haiku 6
Blake, William
Bradstreet, “The Author to Her Book”
Brathwaite, “Ogun”
Byron, “She Walks in Beauty”
Carl Sandburg
Carolyn Forche
Charles Olson (projective verse)
Cummings, “Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town”
Coleridge, Samuel
Darwish, “Identity Card”
Denise Levertov (organic form)
Derek Walcott
Dickinson, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”
Dickinson, “I’m Nobody! Who are you?”
Donne, “Death, be not proud”
Dylan Thomas (villanelle)
E.E. Cummings
Edmund Spenser
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Elizabeth Bishop (villanelle, sestina)
Emily Dickinson (line breaks)
Emily Dickinson selected poems
Ezra Pound
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frost, “Bereft” and “After Apple Picking”
Handal, “Caribe in Nueva York”
Hirshfield, “This Was Once a Love Poem”
Hughes, “Let America Be America Again”
Jack Kerouac
Jackson Mac Low, procedural poetry
John Berryman
John Keats
Johnson, “The Black Man’s Burden”
Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden”
Lady Mary Wortley Montague
Larkin, “A Study of Reading Habits” and “Toads”
Lord Byron
Lucille Clifton
Mark Strand
Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress”
Milton, John
Mnthali, “The Stranglehold of English Lit”
Mora, “Immigrants”
Olds, “Rite of Passage”
Poetry of Andrew Motion, Billy Collins, and Seamus Heaney
Poetry of Billy Collins
Randall, “Booker T. and W.E.B.”
Randolph Healy (found poetry)
Raymond Queneau
Rilke
Rita Dove
Robert Creeley
Robert Duncan
Robert Frost
Sexton, “Her Kind”
Shakespeare, “When My Love Swears She is Made of Truth” and “Winter”
Shelley, Percy
Sonnet CXVI by William Shakespeare
T.S. Eliot (excerpts from ―Prufrock and ―The Wasteland)
Theodore Roethke
Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night”
W.H. Auden (villanelle, sestina)
Wallace Stevens
Walt Whitman (Song of Myself; more from Leaves of Grass)
Wilde, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol”
William Blake
William Butler Yeats
William Carlos Williams
William Shakespeare (sonnets)
Wordsworth, “I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud”
Achebe, “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness”
Baraka, “Blues People”
Essays from The New York Times regarding literature and writers
Hagan, “The Poor Labyrinth: The Theme of Social Injustice in Dickens's ‘Great Expectations’”
Larry Neal, “Ellison’s Zoot Suit”
Marshall, “The Tempest and British Imperialism in 1611”
Nader, H., “The End of the Old World”
“Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche”
Porter, “Critics of Empire: British Radical Attitudes to Colonialism in Africa” 1895-1914
Said, “Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism”
Skura,“Discourse and the Individual: The Case of Colonialism in ‘The Tempest’”
Speeches or essays by Marcus Garvey, Ras Tafari, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Willis, “Shakespeare's Tempest and the Discourse of Colonialism”
Websites
PBS – People Like Us -http://www.pbs.org/peoplelikeus/
PBS – The Royal Shakespeare Company – The Winter’s Tale;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvjBz1gXk28
Documentary on Zora Neale Hurston – Lit2Go-http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/
Project Gutenberg
Alexander Pushkin - http://www.alexanderpushkin.com/
Nobel Prize - http://www.nobelprize.org/
Salon - http://www.salon.com/topic/books//
The Rumpus - http://therumpus.net/sections/books/
A View on Ralph Waldo Emerson - http://world.std.com/~albright/E1.html
Analytical essays on Emerson's work.
american literature.com http://www.americanliterature.com/ARCHIVES/ARCHIVES.HTML
American Treasures of the Library of Congress - http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/
Anninna's Toni Morrison Page - http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/tonimorrison/toni.htm)
Interview: Toni Morrison - A Salon.com interview conducted by Zia Jaffrey http://www.salon.com/books/int/1998/02/cov_si_02int.html)
Morrison's 1993Nobel Lecture - http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1993/morrison-lecture.html)
Ownership and the Loss of Communal Ties in Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye"
(http://www.aad.berkeley.edu/96journal/lott.html)
Scholarly paper on themes in The Bluest Eye.
Toni Morrison, Author - http://www.az.com/~andrade/morrison/start.html
Artful Dodge - http://www.wooster.edu/artfuldodge/obrien.html)
Transcript of an interview on war writing conducted by Daniel Bourne and Debra Shostak.
The Vietnam in Me- http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/09/20/specials/obrien-vietnam.html
Tim O”Brien Writing Vietnam - http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WritingVietnam/obrien.html)
Bartleby.com
Classic Bookshelf http://www.classicbookshelf.com/library/
Cyberarts Web http://www.cyberartsweb.org/cpace/
Dartmouth - http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/Library_Bulletin/Nov1989/LB-N89-Evans.html?mswitchredir=classic
Edith Wharton Society - http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/wharton/index.html)
BBC.com
Edith Wharton's World - http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/wharton/index.htm)
An exhibition at the National Gallery.
Folger.edu (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Irish Literature Texts -http://www.ireland-information.com/irishliterature.htm#free
Luminarium
Modern American Poetry - http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/frost/frost.htm
Native American Authors Project - http://www.ipl.org/cgi/ref/native/browse.pl/A1)
Sending Cinematic Smoke Signals: An Interview with Sherman Alexie http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/alexie.html)
An interview conducted by Dennis West and Joan M. West, originally published in Cineaste v23, n4 (Fall,
1998):28.
Online Books Page, UPenn -http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
Poets.org
Project Gutenberg - http://www.gutenberg.org
Raymond Carver Paris Review Interview - http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3059/the-art-offiction-no-76-raymond-carver
Read Print - http://www.readprint.com/
American Author, Poet & Philosopher - http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96may/emerson.html)
An Overview of American Transcendentalism http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transweb/definitionbickman.htm)
Poetry Exhibits - http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=205
The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - http://www.rwe.org/
Shakespeare-online.com
The American Novel - http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/timeline/naturalism.html
The eText Archive - http://www.etext.org/index.shtml
The Museum of American Poetics - http://www.poetspath.com/
The Postcolonial Web http://www.postcolonialweb.org/
The Victorian Web http://www.victorianweb.org/
Victorian Web - http://www.victorianweb.org/
Films
Casablanca - Michael Curtiz
The Sixth Sense - M. Night Shyamalan (misdirection, fairness) (with permission slip)
Rebecca – Alfred Hitchcock
Au Revoir Les Enfants- Louis Malle
Oh Brother, Where Art Though - Joel and Ethan Coen (with permission slip)
Being There - Jerzy Kosinski
In America - Jim Sheridan (clips only)
Cider House Rules – Lasse Halstrom ((with permission slip)
Amreeka – Cherien Dabis
Persepolis (clips only)
Boyz N the Hood – John Singleton (clips only)
The Pianist – Roman Polanski (clips only)
Melancholia - Lars Von Friar (clips only)
In Search of Shakespeare – PBS Documentary
The Shipping News – Lasse Hallström (clips only)
After the Wedding (Efter Brylluppet) (clips only)
Napolean Dynamite - Jared Hess (clips only)
Snow Falling On Cedars – Scott Hicks (with permission slip)
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou – Cohen Brothers
Film Clips: Benjamin Button
Film Clips: Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance by PBS (1994, NR)
The Conversation - Francis Ford Coppola
Macbeth BBC 1983 or PBS 2010 (NR)
PBS Shakespeare Uncovered: Macbeth
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945, NR)
Great Expectations (1999 or 2012, NR)
Charles Dickens: A Tale of Ambition and Genius (A&E Television, 1997, NR)
Clips from Oprah’s Book Club discussion about Great Expectations
BBC The Tempest (1980 NR)
PBS Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness – Films for the Humanities & Science (1998, NR)
Clips from Apocalypse Now (1979, R-edited for content by instructor)
AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Online and testing / review materials
Any material from www.apcentral.collegeboard.com may be used for instructional purposes.
Sadlier-Oxford (level F) vocabulary – www.vocabularyworkshop.com
Testing and Review materials from workbooks like CliffsAP English Language and Composition by Barbara
Swovelin
The AP Vertical Teams Guide for English
Norton Anthology of American Literature Student Website
(http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/naal7/)
College Board for Students AP English Language Website
(http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/sub_englang.html?englang)
Grammar Girl: Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
(http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/)
American Rhetoric (www.americanrhetoric.com)
A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples
(http://www.uky.edu/AS/Classics/rhetoric.html)
The Forest of Rhetoric (http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Silva.htm)
The Owl at Purdue (http://owl.english.purdue.edu)
The Writing Center at UNC Chapel Hill (www.unc.edu/dets/wcweb)
The UVic Writer’s Guide (http://web.uvic.ca/wguide/Pages/LiteraryTermsTOC.html)
Arts and Letters Daily (www.aldaily.com)
RealClearPolitics (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/)
The Atlantic Monthly (www.theatlantic.com)
http://www.learner.org/amerpass/index.html
http://storyoftheweek.loa.org/
30 Free Essays and Stories by David Foster Wallace Subject: 30 Free Essays & Stories by David Foster Wallace
on the Web Open Culture
http://www.openculture.com/2012/02/23_free_essays_stories_by_david_foster_wallace_available_on_the_
web.html
Penn State’s Electronic Classics Series Site (http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htm)
The New Yorker (http://www.newyorker.com/)
Sadlier – Oxford Vocabulary Workshop (www.vocabtest.com)
Word Wright Challenge http://www.wordwrightchallenge.com/
Index of Textbooks
Atwan, Robert. Convergences: Themes, Texts, and Images for Composition, 3rd Edition. Boston: Bedford/St.
Martin's.
Atwan, Robert. The Best American Essays.
Axelrod, Rise B., and Charles R. Cooper. The St. Martin's Guide to Writing. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's.
Barnet, Sylvan, and Hugo Bedau. Current Issues and Enduring Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking and
Argument with Readings. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's.
Bartholomae, David, and Anthony Petrosky. Ways of Reading. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's.
Bazerman, Charles, and Paul Prior. What Writing Does and How It Does It. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Bloom, Lynn Z. The Essay Connection. Boston: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of Research. Chicago, IL:
University of Chicago Press.
Brassil, John, Carl Glover and Sandra Coker. Analysis, Argument, and Synthesis. Saddle Brook NJ: Peoples
Education.
Columbo, Gary, Robert Cullen, and Bonnie Lisle. Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking
and Writing. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's.
Connelly, Mark. The Sundance Writer: A Rhetoric, Reader, Handbook. Wadsworth Publishing.
Corbett, Edward and Robert Connors. Style and Statement. Oxford, 1999.
Covino, William A. The Elements of Persuasion. Boston: Longman.
Crider, Scott. The Office of Assertion: An Art of Rhetoric for Academic Essay. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books.
Crowley, Sharon, and Debra Hawhee. Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students. New York, NY:
Longman.
Ede, Lisa. Work in Progress: A Guide to Academic Writing and Revising. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's.
Faigley, Lester, Anna Palchik, Cynthia Selfe, and Diana George. Picturing Texts. New York: W. W. Norton.
Faigley, Lester, Jack Selzer. A Little Argument. New York: Longman.
Graff, Gerald, and Cathy Birkenstein, Russel Durst. They Say/I Say: the Moves that Matter in Academic
Writing (with readings). New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
Harris, Joseph. Rewriting: How to Do Things with Text. Logan, UT: Utah University Press.
Heinrichs, Jay. Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us about the
Art of Persuasion. New York: Three Rivers Press.
Hillocks, Jr., George. Teaching Argument Writing, Grades 6-12. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann.
Johnstone, Barbara. Discourse Analysis. London: Blackwell, 2008.
Kennedy, X. J., Dorothy Kennedy, and Jane Aaron. The Bedford Reader. Boston: Bedford-St. Martin's, 1997.
Kirszner, Laurie G., and Stephen R. Mandell. Practical Argument. Bostone: Bedford/St. Martin's.
Kolln, Martha, and Loretta Gray. Rhetorical Grammar: Grammatical Choices, Rhetorical Effects, 6th Edition.
New York: Longman.
Latterell, Catherine G. ReMix: reading + composing culture, 2nd Edition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's.
Lunsford, Andrea A., John J. Ruszkiewicz, and Keith Walters. Everything's an Argument: with Readings.
Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's.
Miller, Robert K. The Informed Argument. New York: Heinlein.
Mims, Joan, Elizabeth Nollen. Mirror on America: Essays, and Images from Popular Culture. Boston:
Bedford/St. Martin's.
Roskelly, Hephzibah, and David Jolliffe. Everyday Use: Rhetoric at Work in Reading and Writing. New York:
Longman.
Shea, RenéPeterson, Linda e, Lawrence Scanlon, and Robin Dissin Aufses. The Language of Composition.
Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's.
Spatt, Brenda. Writing from Sources, 8th Edition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's.
Tibbetts, A.M., and Charlene Tibbetts. Strategies of Rhetoric. New York: HarperCollins.
Trail, George. Rhetorical Terms and Concepts: A Contemporary Glossary. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace, 2000.
Tufte, Virginia. Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style. Cheshire, Connecticut: Graphics Press.
White, Fred and Simone Billings. The Well Crafted Argument, 4th Edition. Boston: Wadsworth Cengage
Learning.
Williams, Joseph M., and Gregory G. Colomb. Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace, 10th Edition. Upper
Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson.
Readers
Austin, Michael. Reading the World: Ideas that Matter. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
Cohen, Samuel. 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's.
Colombo, Gary, Robert Cullen, and Bonnie Lisle. Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking
and Writing. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's.
Connelly, Mark. The Sundance Reader. Boston: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
Conrad, Ronald. The Act of Writing: Canadian Essays for Composition. Toronto, McGraw-Hill Ryerson.
Cooley, Thomas. Back to the Lake. New York: Norton.
Cooley, Thomas, ed. The Norton Sampler: Short Essays for Composition. New York: W. W. Norton.
Dillard, Annie and Cort Conley. Modern American Memoirs. New York: Harper Perennials.
DiYanni, Robert, and Pat C. Hoy II. Frames of Mind: A Rhetorical Reader with Occasions for Writing. Boston:
Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
DiYanni, Robert, ed. One Hundred Great Essays. New York: Longman.
Eschholz, Paul, and Alfred Rosa, eds. Models for Writers: Short Essays for Composition. Boston: Bedford/St.
Martin's.
Eschholz, Paul, and Alfred Rosa, eds. Subjects/Strategies: A Writer's Reader. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's.
Flachman, Kim, and Michael Flachman. The Prose Reader. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Gilyard, Keith, Deborah H. Holdstein, and Charles I. Schuster. Rhetorical Choices: A Reader for Writers. New
York: Longman.
Gross, John, ed. The Oxford Book of Essays. New York: Oxford University Press.
Jacobus, Lee A. A World of Ideas. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's.
Kennedy, X.J., Dorothy M. Kennedy, and Jane E. Aaron. The Bedford Reader. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's.
Kirszner, Laurie G., and Stephen R. Mandell. The Blair Reader: Exploring Contemporary Issues. Upper Saddle
River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Kirszner, Laurie G., and Stephen R. Mandell, eds. Patterns for College Writing: A Rhetorical Reader and
Guide. New York, NY: Bedford/St. Martin's.
Kitchen, Judith. Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction. New York: W.W. Norton.
laGuardia, Dolores, and Hans Guth. American Voices: Culture and Community. New York: McGraw-Hill.
McCuen, Jo Ray, and Anthony C. Winkler, eds. Readings for Writers. Boston: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
McQuade, Donald, and Robert Atwan. The Writer's Presence: A Pool of Readings, 6th Edition. Boston:
Bedford/St. Martin's.
Miller, George, ed. The Prentice Hall Reader. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Muller, Gilbert H. The McGraw-Hill Reader: Issues Across the Disciplines. McGraw-Hill Higher Education.
Nadell, Judith A., John Langan, and Eliza A. Comodromos. The Longman Reader. New York: Longman.
Peterson, Linda H., John C. Brereton, Joseph Bizup, Anne Fernald, and Melissa Goldthwaite eds. The Norton
Reader, 13th Edition. New York: W. W. Norton & Co.
Ramage, John D., John C. Bean, and June Johnson. Writing Arguments: A Rhetoric with Readings. New
York: Longman.
Root Jr., Robert L., and Michael Steinberg. The Fourth Genre. New York: Longman.
Stubbs, Marcia, Sylvan Barnet, and William E. Cain. The Little, Brown Reader. New York: Longman.
Trimmer, James F., and Maxine C. Hairston, eds. The Riverside Reader. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Walters, Keith, and Michael Brody. What's Language Got to Do With It? New York: W.W. Norton.
Zinsser, William K. Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir. New York: Mariner Books.
Handbooks, Style Guides, and Grammar Texts
Blakesley, David and Jeffrey Hoogeveen. Writing: a Manual for the Digital Age. Wadsworth Publishing.
Bullock, Richard. The Norton Field Guide to Writing (with readings). New York: W.W. Norton.
Ehrlich, Eugene. The Highly Selective Dictionary for the Extraordinary Literate.
Faigley, Lester. Penguin Handbook. New York: Longman.
Fowler, H. Ramsey, and Jane E. Aaron. The Little, Brown Handbook. New York: Longman.
Hacker, Diana. The Bedford Handbook. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's.
Hacker, Diana. A Writer's Reference. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's.
Hall, Donald, and Sven Birkerts. Writing Well. New York: Longman.
Killgallon, Don. Sentence Composing for College. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook.
Lanham, Richard A. Revising Prose. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
Lunsford, Andrea A. St. Martin's Handbook. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's.
Miles, Robert, Marc Bertonasco, and William Karns. Prose Style. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Murray, Donald. The Craft of Revision. Boston: Thomson/Heinle.
Muth, Marcia F. Researching and Writing. New York: Bedford St. Martins.
Strunk, William, Jr., and E. B. White. Elements of Style. New York: Longman.
Troyka, Lynn Quitman, and Douglas Hesse. Simon and Schuster Handbook for Writers. Upper Saddle River,
NJ: Prentice Hall.
Zinsser, William K. On Writing Well: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction. New York: Harper and Row.
Kirszner, Laurie and Stephen Mandell. Patterns for College Writing: A Rhetorical Reader and Guide. 10th ed.
Boston: Bedford/St.Martin’s, 2007.
Supplementary Texts:
Andrea, Lunsford, John Ruszkiewicz and Keith Walters. Everything's An Argument. 5th ed. 5. Boston: Bedford,
2010.
Cohen, Samuel. 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology. 1st ed. Boston: Bedford/St.Martin's, 2004. Print.
Cooley, Thomas. The Norton Sampler. 6th ed. New York: WW Norton & Company, 2003. Print.
Diyanni, Robert. One Hundred Great Essays. 3rd ed. New York: Pearson Longman, 2008.
Goshgarian, Gary, Kathleen Krueger, and Janet Barnett Minc. Dialogues: An Argument
Rhetoric and Reader. 4th ed. Boston: Pearson, 2003. Print.
Hacker, Diana and Nancy Sommers. Rules for Writers. 7th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2012.
Hariman, Robert and John Louis Lucaites. No Caption Needed. N.p. Web. 2012.
<www.nocaptionneeded.com>.
Heinrichs, Jay. Thank You For Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us about the
Art of Persuasion. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2007.
Kirszner, Laurie and Stephen Mandell. Patterns for College Writing: A Rhetorical Reader and Guide. 10th ed.
Boston: Bedford/St.Martin’s, 2007.
Lunsford, Andrea, John Ruszkiewicz and Keith Walters. Everything's An Argument. 5th ed. 5. Boston: Bedford,
2010.
Miller, George. The Prentice Hall Reader. 9th ed. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2010.
Nadell, Judith and John Langan. The Macmillan Reader. 2nd ed. New York: Macmillan, 1990.
Rosa, Alfred, and Paul Eschholz. Models for Writers. 11th ed. Boston: Bedford/St.Martin's, 2012. Print.
Roskelly, Hephzibah and David A. Jolliffe. Everyday Use: Rhetoric at Work in Reading and Writing. 2nd ed.
San Francisco: Pearson Longman, 2009.
Shea, Renee, Lawrence Scanlon, and Robin Dissin Aufses. The Language of Composition. 1st ed. Boston:
Bedford/St.Martin's, 2008. Print.
Speeches That Changed the World. 1st ed. London: Smith-Davies Publishing Ltd., 2005. Print.
Usher, Shawn. Letters of Note. N.p. Web. 2012. <www.lettersofnote.com>.
Viz: Visual Rhetoric – Visual Culture – Pedagogy. N.p. Web. 2012. <viz.cwrl.utexas.edu>.
Vocabulary from Latin and Greek Roots
Vocabulary Workshop
Calvino, Italo. The Uses of Literature. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1986.
Delbanco, Andrew. Required Reading: Why Our American Classics Matter Now. New York:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997.
Dillard, Annie. Living by Fiction. New York: Perennial Library, 1988.
Eco, Umberto. Six Walks in the Fictional Woods. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 1995.
Finkel, Donald. Teaching With Your Mouth Shut. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2000.
Fulwiler, Toby, ed. The Journal Book. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1987.
hooks, bell. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. New York:
Routledge, 1994.
James, William. Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life’s
Ideals. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1962.
Lindemann, Erika. A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers. 3rd ed. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1993.
A Forest of Voices: Conversations in Ecology, 2nd ed.
A Teaching Subject: Composition Since 1966
A World of Ideas: Essential Readings for College Writers, 6th ed.
A Writer's Reader, 9th ed.
Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students, 2nd ed.
Asking the Right Questions
Best American Essays
Building Bridges: The Allyn & Bacon Student Guide to Service-Learning
Classic American Autobiographies
Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student
Connections: Reading and Writing in Cultural Contexts, 3rd ed.
Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: The Art of Truth
Crafting Expository Argument: Practical Approaches to the Writing Process for Students & Teachers, 3rd ed.
Cultural Attractions/Cultural Distractions: Critical Literacy in Contemporary Times
Discovering Arguments: An Introduction to Critical Thinking and Writing with Readings
Essays and Arguments: A Handbook on Writing Argumentative and Interpretative Essays
Essays from Contemporary Culture, 4th ed.
Everything's an Argument, 2nd ed.
Exploring Language, 9th ed.
Fieldworking Reading and Writing Research
Good Reasons, with Contemporary Arguments
Interactions: A Thematic Reader, 4th ed.
Language Matters: Readings for College Writers
Learning Dynamics Streamlines: Selected Readings on Single Topics
Letters of a Nation: A Collection of Extraordinary American Letters
Life Studies: An Analytic Reader, 7th ed.
Many Voices: A Multicultural Reader
One World, Many Cultures
Our Times: Readings from Recent Periodicals
Patterns of Reflection: A Reader, 4th ed.
Plato's Heirs: Classic Essays
Prose Models
Purpose and Process: A Reader for Writers
Reading Rhetorically: A Reader for Writers
Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing
Rhetoric for a Multicultural America
Rhetorical Grammar: Grammatical Choices, Rhetorical Effects, 3rd ed.
Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose
Short Takes, 7th ed.
Sundance Writer: A Rhetoric, Reader, and Handbook
Telling Writing
The Annie Dillard Reader
The Bedford Reader, 7th ed.
The Essay Connection: Readings for Writers, 6th ed.
The Familiar Essay
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 5th ed.
The Norton Book of American Autobiography
The Norton Reader, 10th ed.
The Norton Sampler: Short Essays for Composition, 5th ed.
The Oxford Book of Essays
The Riverside Reader
The Shape of Reason: Argumentative Writing in College, 3rd ed.
The Simon and Schuster Short Prose Reader
The Structure of Argument
The Transition to College Writing
The Vietnam Reader
The Writer's Options: Lessons in Style and Arrangement, 6th ed.
The Writer's Presence: A Pool of Readings
Understanding Style: Practical Ways to Improve Your Writing
Understanding Writing Blocks
Understanding Written Grammar
Write to Learn, 6th ed.
Writers' Choices: Grammar to Improve Style
Writing: A Concise Handbook
Writing Arguments: A Rhetoric with Readings, 5th ed.
Writing As Reflective Action
Writing Choices: Shaping Contexts for Critical Readers
Writing with Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process Book Writing with Style: Conversations on
the Art of Writing, 2nd ed.
Additional Non-Fiction Texts:
2008 & 2012 Democratic/Republican National Convention Speeches, Debate Transcripts
First Inaugural Address by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Challenger Tragedy Address to the Nation by Ronald Regan
Selected This I Believe Essays, NPR
Reading & Writing Selections from Released Advanced Placement Language & Composition Exams,
College Board
Selected Political Cartoons, New York Times, Newsweek, Harper’s Weekly, and the Washington Post
“I Never Owned Any Music to Begin With” by Emily White
“Letter to Emily White” by David Lowry
“The Box Man” by Barbara Ascher
“A Faceless Man’s Plea” by Mike Royko
“On Compassion” by Barbara Ascher
“Beauty” by Susan Sontag
“A Pure Miracle”, "The Horrible Waste of War", and "A Long Thin Line of Personal Anguish" by Ernie Pyle
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards
“On Being a Cripple” by Nancy Mairs
Fast Food Nation by Erick Schlosser
Nickel & Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
Stiff by Mary Roach
On the Road by Jack Keroac
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
The Autobiography of Malcom X by Alex Haley/Malcom X
Into the Wild by John Krakauer
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Additional Fiction Texts for Internal and External Class Study:
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Fences by August Wilson
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
1984 by George Orwell
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean
The Crucible and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Text Studies: Fiction & Non-Fiction:
Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood. Toronto: Vintage International, 1994. ISBN: 9780679745587
Ehrenreich, Barbara. Nickel and Dimed. New York: Metropolitan/Owl, 2001. ISBN: 0805063897
Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying. Toronto: Vintage International, 1985. ISBN: 067973225x
Fisher, Robin Gary and Angelo J. Guglielmo, Jr. The Woman Who Wasn't There. New York: Touchstone, 2012.
ISBN: 9781451652093
Frankl, Victor. Man's Search for Meaning. New York: Pocket Books, 1984. ISBN: 9780671023379
Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. New York: Signet, 1963. ISBN: 0451163966
Kipling, Rudyard. Kim. New York: Penguin, 1989. ISBN: 0140183523
O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried. New York: Penguin, 1990. ISBN: 014014773x
Ozeki, Ruth. My Year of Meats. New York: Penguin, 1999. ISBN: 014028046
Roach, Mary. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers. New York: Norton, 2004. ISBN: 978039332482
Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. New York: Penguin, 2000. ISBN: 0140437843
Ambrose To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian
Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Ellison Invisible Man
Frederick Douglas Narrative of the Life of a Frederick Douglas
Harper’s Magazine “Great Books for Dummies”
Francine Prose “I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read – How American High
School Students Learn to Loathe Literature”
Jennifer Price “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History”
Abraham Lincoln Second Inaugural Address
Vocabulary Power Plus for the New SAT, Book 3
Warriner’s English Grammar and Composition, Complete Course
Queen Elizabeth I “Speech to the Troops at Tilbury”
William Shakespeare Excerpts from Julius Caesar, speeches of Mark Antony and
Cassius
William Shakespeare “Sonnet 116”
Neil Postman Foreword from Amusing Ourselves to Death
Abraham Lincoln “Gettysburg Address”
William Shakespeare Othello
Stephen Greenblatt Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Ellen Meloy Raven’s Exile: A Season on the Green River
F. Scott Fitzgerald “Winter Dreams”
David Foster Wallace “Consider the Lobster”
John Rubadeau “Five Paragraphs & Out”
Lucille Vaughn The Lively Art of Writing
H.L. Mencken “The Declaration of Independence in American”
Lewis Lapham Money and Class in America
Charles Bukowski “Roll the Dice”
Rabindranath Tagore “Where the Mind is Without Fear”
Christopher Hitchens Thomas Jefferson: Author of America
The Road ( Cormac McCarthy)
Travels with Charlie (John Steinbeck)
“I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read” (Francine Prose)
The Scarlet Letter
Young Goodman Browne —The Writer’s Presence
The Scarlet Letter
Leslie Marmon Silko (“Lullaby”)
Gloria Anzaldua (“How to Tame a Wild Tongue”)-The Writers Presence
Sherman Alexie ( “Pawn Shop” )
William Bradford (Excerpts from Of Plymouth Plantation)—Course Reader
Anne Bradstreet (“The Author to her Book,” “Before the Birth of One of her Children,” “To
My Dear and Loving Husband,” “A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment,” “In Memory of
My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet,” “Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House”)
Descartes, Excerpt from Discourse on Method
Rousseau, Excerpt from The Social Contract
Stephen King, “Everything You Need to Know about Writing Successfully—in Ten Minutes”—The Writer’s
Presence
Benjamin Franklin, “Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America,” and “Speech in the Convention”)
Thomas Jefferson, “The Declaration of Independence”
Phillis Wheatley, “On Being Brought from Africa to America”
John and Abigail Adams, “Letters”
PBS Frontline, Video Report: “The History of a Secret: How the Truth of Jefferson and Hemings Became a
Lie, Then Became True Again”
Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address
Booker T. Washington, Excerpts from Up from Slavery
Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
Leslie Fiedler, “Come Back to the Raft Ag’in, Huck Honey!”
Jane Smiley, “Say It Ain’t So, Huck”
W.E.B. Du Bois, “The Souls of Black Folk”
Sojourner Truth, “Ain’t I A Woman?”
Paintings: Thomas Nast, The Modern Samson; Winslow Homer, Snap the Whip
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature,” “Self-Reliance,” “The Poet,” “Experience,” “Challenging Thoreau to Write,”
“To Walt Whitman”
Henry David Thoreau, “Resistance to Civil Government,” Excerpts from Walden (“Economy,” “Where I Lived
and What I Lived For,” “Conclusion”)
Walt Whitman, Excerpts from Song of Myself
Emily Dickinson, 122, 260,269, 320,340, 446, 656, 788
Sarah Winnemucca, excerpts from Life Among the Paiutes
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
Paintings and Photographs: John Singer Sargent, Mrs. Elliott Fitch Shepard; Mary Colter, Hopi House; Amos
Bad heart Bull, Women Watching a Sun Dance; Kills Two, An Indian Horse Dance
The Great Gatsby
T.S. Eliot, “The Waste Land,” “The Hollow Men,” “The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock”
Gertrude Stein, excerpts from Tender Buttons
William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily,” “Barn Burning”
John Steinbeck, “The Leader of the People”
Ernest Hemingway, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” and other selected stories
Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio
Paintings and Photographs: Marsden Hartley, Portrait of a German Officer; Archibald J. Motley, Black Belt;
Dorothea Lange, Towards Los Angeles; Georgia O’Keefe, From the Faraway; Howard Miller, We Can Do It !
Zora Neale Hurston, “How It Feels to Be Colored Me”
Jean Toomer, excerpts from Cane
Langston Hughes, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” “Mother to Son,” “I, Too,” “The Weary Blues,” “Mulatto,”
“Song for a Dark Girl,” “Democracy,” “Theme for English B”
Ralph Ellison, “On Bird, Bird-Watching, and Jazz”
CD: Charlie Parker, “Ornithology”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “I Have a Dream”—The Writer’s Presence
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”—The Writer’s Presence
Adrienne Rich , “When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision”—Course Reader
Audre Lord , “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action”—Course Reader
Joan Didion, “On Self-Respect” and “Marrying Absurd”
Sissela Bok, “Whistleblowing and Professional Responsibility”
Neil Postman, “Future Schlock”
John Leonard, “Why Blame T.V.”
Albert Carr, “Is Business Bluffing Ethical”
Paul Goodman, “A Proposal to Abolish Grading”
William F. Shrthard II, “Why Not a Football Degree?”
Spiro Agnew, “Assorted Speeches”
Dave Berry, “Guys v. Men”
Judy Berry, “I Want a Wife”
William Faulkner, “Nobel Prize Award Speech”
Jamaica Kincaid, “A Small Place”
Margaret Atwood, “An End to Audience”
Ted Sizer, “What High School Is”
Julia Keller, “Killing Me Microsoftly”
Jonathon Kozol, “Distancing the Homeless”
Alice Walker , “Advancing Luna and Ida B. Wells”—Course Reader
Allen Ginsberg ,“Howl”
Jack Kerouac, selected excerpts
Sylvia Plath, “Morning Song,” “Lady Lazarus,” “Daddy,” “Blackberrying,” “Child”
Lucille Clifton, “miss rosie,” “the lost baby poem,” “homage to my hips,” “wild blessings,” “wishes for sons,”
“the mississippi river empties into the gulf”
Art Spiegelman, excerpts from Maus: A Survivor’s Tale
Sebastian Junger, “Colter’s Way” (in-class reading)
David Brooks, “People Like Us” (in-class reading)
Paintings and Photographs: Roy Lichtenstein, Blam; Andy Warhol, Campbell’s Soup 1 (Tomato); Earthrise
and Lunar Horizon from Apollo 8, 1968; Fritz Scholder, The American Indian; Cindy Sherman, Untitled; Maya
Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial; Peter Morgan, World Trade Center Burning
Othello
Films: The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (1952); Othello (1995); O (2001).
Supplementary Resources:
Blaidsdell, Bob. Great Speeches of the 20th Century. Mineola: Dover Publications, 2011.
Diyanni, Robert. One Hundred Great Essays. 3rd ed. New York: Pearson Longman, 2008.
Gunn, Giles. Early American Writing. New York: Penguin Books, 1994.
Hacker, Diana and Nancy Sommers. Rules for Writers. 7th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2012.
Hariman, Robert and John Louis Lucaites. No Caption Needed. N.p. Web. 2012.
<www.nocaptionneeded.com>.
Heinrichs, Jay. Thank You For Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us about the
Art of Persuasion. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2007.
Kahane, Howard and Nancy Cavender. Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric: The Use of Reason in Everyday
Life. 9th ed. Belmont: Wadsworth/Thompson Learning, 2002.
Lunsford, Andrea, John Ruszkiewicz and Keith Walters. Everything's An Argument. 5th ed. 5. Boston: Bedford,
2010.
Miller, George. The Prentice Hall Reader. 9th ed. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2010.
Nadell, Judith and John Langan. The Macmillan Reader. 2nd ed. New York: Macmillan, 1990.
Ravitch, Diane. The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation. 2nd ed. New York: Harper Collins
Publishers, 2000.
Roskelly, Hephzibah and David A. Jolliffe. Everyday Use: Rhetoric at Work in Reading and Writing. 2nd ed.
San Francisco: Pearson Longman, 2009.
Rottenberg, Annette T. Elements of Argument: A Text and Reader. 7th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s,
2003.
Strunk,William,Jr.,andE.B.White.Elements ofStyle.4th ed.Needham Hill,MA:Allyn&Bacon,1995.
Trimmer,Joseph,WritingwithaPurpose.14th ed.Boston:HoughtonMifflin,2004.
Usher, Shawn. Letters of Note. N.p. Web. 2012. <www.lettersofnote.com>.
Viz: Visual Rhetoric – Visual Culture – Pedagogy. N.p. Web. 2012. <viz.cwrl.utexas.edu>.
Zinsser, William. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction. 7th ed. New York: Harper Collins
Publishers, 2006.
Picasso, Pablo, Weeping Woman. ARS, N.Y.
CNN video extension (Comp21), Frames of Mind.
David, Jacques-Louis, The Death of Socrates (oil on canvas in The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, N.Y.)
Trumbull, John, The Declaration of Independence (Mural in the Capitol Building,
Washington, D.C.)
Patrick Henry Arguing “the Parson’s Cause” (1830, oil painting thought to be the
work of George Cooke; the Virginia Historical Society, Richmond)
“The Horse America Throwing His Master” (1779, political cartoon of King George;
Library of Congress)
King, Martin Luther, Jr., I Have a Dream (Video clip; www.AmericanRhetoric.com)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939, video clip “Mr. Jefferson Smith takes the
constitutional oath of office”; www.AmericanRhetoric.com)
Photographs from the Depression, 1930s
Excerpts from publications like Newsweek, Time, Life and the New York Times.
Excerpts from the following authors may be used for instructional purposes:
Pre-20th Century
Aesop, selected fables
Joseph Addison
Matthew Arnold
Francis Bacon – “Of Studies”
Thomas Carlyle
Franz Ludwig Catel – “Battle Between the Turks and the Greeks” (visual)
Cicero – “On Duties”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Michel Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur – excerpt from Letters From an American Farmer
Charles Darwin
Dekanawida, selections from The Iroquois Constitution
Frederick Douglass
Emily Dickinson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Benjamin Franklin – “Rattle-Snakes for Felons” and “The Whistle”
Margaret Fuller
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Thomas Hobbes – selections from Leviathan
Washington Irving
Harriet Jacobs (Linda Brent)
Thomas Jefferson – “Letters to his Daughter”
Samuel Johnson – selections from the dictionary
Abraham Lincoln – “Letter to John D. Johnston” and “Letter to Mrs. Bixby”
John Locke
Thomas Macaulay
Niccolò Machiavelli – selections from The Prince
John Stuart Mill
John Milton
Michel de Montaigne – “On the Art of Conversing”/”On the Custom of Wearing Clothes”
Thomas More
Thomas Paine
Plato – “The Allegory of the Cave”
Edgar Allen Poe
Seneca, selected epistles
George Bernard Shaw
Jonathan Swift – excerpts from A Modest Proposal
Henry David Thoreau
Oscar Wilde
Mary Wollstonecraft
20th Century to the Present
Edward Abbey
Diane Ackerman
Paula Gunn Allen
Woody Allen – “My Apology”
Natalie Angier
Michael Arlen
Barbara Lazera Ascher – “On Compassion”
Margaret Atwood
James Baldwin
Dave Barry
Richard Bausch, “Representative Government: A Correspondance”
Simone de Beauvoir
Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter – What If?
Ambrose Bierce – The Devil’s Dictionary
Sven Birkerts
Allan Bloom – “Is Rock Music Rotting Our Kids’ Minds?”
Susan Bordo
William F. Buckley
Kate Chopin – The Awakening
Winston Churchill
Robert Coles – “Uniforms”
Patrick Clauss, I-Claim: Visualizing Argument
Joan Didion – “On Keeping a Notebook”
Annie Dillard – “The Death of a Moth”
“Doonesbury” (Gary Trudeau) - visual
W. E. B. Du Bois
Roger Ebert – “North”
Lars Eighner - “On Dumpster Diving”
Loren Eiseley
T.S. Eliot
Ralph Ellison
Richard Ellmann
Nora Ephron
Stephanie Ericsson - “The Ways We Lie”
“Family Circus” - visuals
Niall Ferguson
M. F. K. Fisher
Tim Flannery
Shelby Foote
Richard Fortey
Robert Frost
John Kenneth Galbraith
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Atul Gawande
Walker Gibson, “Authors, Speakers, Readers, and Mock Readers”
Bonni Goldberg – Room to Write
Bob Greene – excerpt from Be True to Your School
Rich Hall – selections from Sniglets
William Hazlitt, “Education for Women”
Ernest Hemingway – Cat in the Rain”
Richard Holmes
bell hooks
Zora Neale Hurston
Pico Iyer – “Of Weirdos and Eccentrics”
Garrison Keillor – “How to Write a Personal Letter”
Helen Keller
Jamaica Kincaid – “Girl”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Barbara Kingsolver
Paul Krugman
Alex Kuczynski
T. E. Lawrence
Barry Lopez
Lux Ad from the 1940s – (visual)
Norman Mailer
Charles Main – “Writing and Selling the List Article”
Nancy Mairs – “On Being a Cripple”
Frank McCourt
Bill McKibben
John McPhee,
Margaret Mead
H. L. Mencken
N. Scott Momaday
Toni Morrison
John Muir
Joyce Carol Oates - Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Chopra (film adaptation of
the Joyce Carol Oates story)
Barack Obama
Sean O’Casey – “Dublin Houses”
Dick O’Kane – “In Praise of the Land Rover”
Susan Orlean
George Orwell – “Politics of the English Language” and “A Hanging”
Cynthia Ozick
Joseph Perkins - “Homeless: Expose the Myths”
“Sylvia Plath,” Voices and Visions, PBS Production
Anna Quindlan- “Homeless”
William Safire – “Invective’s Comeback” & “Fumblerules”
Carl Sagan
Edward Said
George Santayana
Saturday Night Live – “Best of the Commercial Parodies” (visual)
Arthur M. Schlesinger
Carolyn Foster Segal – “The Dog Ate My Disk”
Max Shulman, “Love is a Fallacy”
Susan Sontag
Shelby Steele
Lincoln Steffens
John Steinbeck – excerpts from The Grapes of Wrath
I.F. Stone – “When Free Speech Was First Condemned: The Trial of Socrates Reconsidered”
William Strunk and E.B. White – The Elements of Style
Amy Tan – “Mother Tongue”
Edward Taylor – “Huswifery”
Lewis Thomas – “Notes on Punctuation”
James Thurber – “The Last Flower”
Calvin Trillin – “The Extendable Fork”
Scott Turow – excerpts from One-L
John Updike – “Still of Some Use”
Gore Vidal
Alice Walker
Eudora Welty
E. B. White
Walt Whitman – “A Noiseless, Patient Spider”
Virginia Woolf
Malcolm X
Barbara Tuchman
AP ENGLISH LITERATURE
Main Texts
Brave New World by Alex Huxley
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Pictures of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Rosencraft and Gildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Additional Authors: Stories, Excerpts, Poetry, and Literary Criticism
“A Man Told Me The Story of his Life,” Grace Paley
“Beach Town,” Amy Hempel
“Bernice Bobs Her Hair,” F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Big Two-Hearted River, Pt. 2,” Ernest Hemingway
“Boys,” Rick Moody
“Dirty Wedding,” Denis Johnson
“Everything that Rises Must Converge,” Flannery O’Connor
“Feathers,” Raymond Carver
“In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried,” Amy Hempel
“Keith,” Ron Carlson
“Little Things,” Raymond Carver
“Mike LeFevre,” from Working
“Mixed Blood Stew,” Jewell Parker Rhodes
“Rothschild’s Fiddle,” Anton Chekhov
“Seizing Control,” Mary Robison
“Shitty First Drafts,” Anne Lamott (will black out “sh” vernacular)
“Small Avalanches,” Joyce Carol Oates
“Story,” Lydia Davis
“The Barber’s Unhappiness,” George Saunders
“The Killers,” Ernest Hemingway
“The School,” Donald Barthelme
“The Swimmer” John Cheever
“The Things They Carried,” Tim O’Brien
“Tool Box,” Stephen King
“Trilobites,” Breece D’J Pancake
“You’re Ugly, Too,” Lorrie Moore
Achebe, “An Image of Africa”
Adichie, “The Headstrong Historian”
Alice Walker, “Everyday Use”
Allan Gurganis, “Gurganis on Stephen Crane’s ‘The Open Boat’” or “Caucasian”
Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
Amy Bloom, “The Story”
Amy Tan, “Rules of the Game”
Angelas Ashes – Frank McCourt
Barry Hannah, “Hannah on Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’”
Bradbury, “The Pedestrian” and other short stories
Charlotte Perkins
Chekov
Chekov, “The Looking Glass”
Conrad, “The Congo Diary”
D.H. Lawrence, “Why the Novel Matters”
Dahl, “Man of the South”
David Foster Wallace
Earnest Hemingway, “A Clean Well-Lighted Place” or “Hills Like White Elephants”
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher” or “The Masque of the Red Death” or “The Purloined
Letter”
Eliot, Excerpts from the play “Family Reunion”
Ernest Hemingway – “Hills Like White Elephants”
Excerpt from “Heaven,” Mary Gaitskill
Excerpt from “Him With His Foot in His Mouth,” Saul Bellow
Excerpt from “The Mezzanine,” Nicholson Baker
Excerpts from Davies’s Orchestra
Excerpts from Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
Excerpts from Faust
Excerpts from Machiavelli’sThe Prince
Excerpts from Nietzsche’s The Genealogy of Morals
Excerpts from Virgil’s “Aeneid”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Babylon Revisited”
Fairy tales of Oscar Wilde
Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily”
Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man is Hard to Find” or “The Life You Save May Be Your Own,” or “Good
Country People”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gates, “Blackness of Blackness: A Critique of the Sign and Signifying Monkey”
George Saunders
Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown”
Henry James, “Greville Fane”
Isaac Bashevis Singer, “Gimpel the Fool”
Isabel Allende, “The Stories of Eva Luna”
Jackson, “The Bus”
James Joyce, “Araby” or excerpts from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Jhumpa Lahiri - "A Temporary Matter"
John Cheever, “The Enormous Radio”
John Keats, “Bright Star”
John Steinbeck, “The Chrysanthemums”
John Updike, “A & P” or “Who Made Yellow Roses Yellow?”
Jorge Luis Borges, “The South”
Joyce Carol Oates, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”
Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour”
L e Guin, “The Ones Who Walked Away From Omelas”
Leo Tolstoy, “The Death of Ivan Ilych” or “Three Questions”
Lessing, “The Old Chief Mshlanga”
Mansfield, “Miss Brill”
Margaret Atwood, “Death by Landscape”
Mark Twain, “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” or excerpts from Huckleberry Finn
Melville, “Bartleby the Scrivener”
Melville, “Benito Cereno”
Menedez, “In Cuba I was a German Shepherd”
Mukherjee, “Two Ways to Belong in America”
Nabokov Selected Texts
Nathaniel Hawthorne Selected Texts
Nikolai Gogol, “The Nose”
O’Connor, “A Stroke of Good Fortune”
Philip Roth, “The Conversion of the Jews”
Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart”
Porter, “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”
Ralph Ellison, “King of the Bingo Game” or “An Interview”
Ray Bradbury, “A Sound of Thunder” or “The Veldt”
Richard Wright, “The Man Who Was Almost a Man”
Rushdie, “The Shelter of the World”
Salman Rushdie, “The Free Radio”
Sherwood Anderson, “I Want to Know Why”
Shirley Jackson, “The Lottery”
Stephen Crane, “The Open Boat”
Stephen King – “The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet”
Sylvia Plath, “Metaphors” and “The Mirror” and “Old Ladies’
Amy Tan, “Two Kinds”
Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience”
Thurber, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”
Tim O’Brien Selected Texts
Truman Capote, “Miriam”
Virginia Woolf, “Kew Gardens”
Vonnegut, “Harrison Bergeron”
Wainaina, “How to Write about Africa”
Washington, 1895 Atlanta Exposition Address
Wilde, “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime” and Selected Texts
Wilde, Intentions
Willa Cather, “A Wagner Matinee”
William Carlos Williams, “The Use of Force”
William Faulkner, “Barn Burning”
Zora Neale Hurston, “The Conscience of the Court” or “Spunk
Darin Strauss Handout
“The School,” Donald Barthelme
“A Good Man is Hard to Find,” Flannery O’Connor
“We Have Always Lived in the Castle,” Shirley Jackson
Jorge Louis Borges – “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”
Barry Hannah – “Bats out of Hell Division”
Wells Tower – “Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned”
David Foster Wallace – “The Suffering Channel”
Breece DJ Pancake – “Trilobites”
Flannery O’Connor – “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
Barry Hannah – “Testimony of Pilot,”
Donald Ray Pollock – “Real Life”
Larry Brown – “Big, Bad Love”
Adam Atlas – “New Year’s Weekend on the Hand Surgery Ward, Old Pilgrims’
Hospital, Naples, Italy”
Eudora Welty – “Death of a Traveling Salesman”
Christian Moody – “Horusville”
George Saunders – “CivilWarLand in Bad Decline”
Keith Lee Morris – “Tired Heart”
James Joyce – “Araby”
Boomer Pinches – “Bethlehem is Full”
Ernest Hemingway – “The Killers”
John Cheever – “The Country Husband”
Italo Calvino – If on a winter’s night a traveler
Marcel Bénabou – Why I Have Not Written Any Of My Books (Excerpt)
“Write What You Don’t Know” by Bret Anthony Johnston
Flannery O’Connor
James Joyce
Yasunari Kawabata
“Happy Endings” by Margaret Atwood
Chekov
Joyce Carol Oates
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
John Updike
George Saunders
David Foster Wallace
Ha Jin
Deborah Eisenberg
Jhumpa Lahiri
ZZ Packer
Junot Diaz
Ernest
Hemingway
John Cheever
Amy Hempel
Eudora Welty
Skylark by Dezso Kosztolany
Jane Bowles
“Fiesta, 1980,” Junot Diaz
“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” Ursula Le Guin
Janet Burroway, ― “I Gotta Use Words When I Talk to You”
Flannery O’Connor, “The Nature and Aim of Fiction”
Ron Carlson, “Keith” and ―Notes on Keith
Janet Burroway, “Play it Again, Sam”
Kim Addonizio, “The Energy of Revision”
New Yorker article ―Rough Crossings and Edits of Carver’s story
Zadie Smith’s “That Crafty Feeling”
“Write What You Don’t Know” by Bret Anthony Johnston
“Happy Endings” by Margaret Atwood
“Paris,” Lorrie Moore
“A Model World,” Michael Chabon
Roland Barthes, “Death of the Author”
Flannery O’Connor, “The Nature and Aim of Fiction”
“Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,” Jonathan Safran Foer (First chapter)
“Girl,” Jamaica Kincaid
“Isabel Fish,” Julie Orringer
“What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,” Raymond Carver
“Beginners,” Raymond Carver
“The Bear Came Over the Mountain,” Alice Munro
“Stone Animals,” Kelly Link
“Something to Remember Me By,” Saul Bellow
“Autobiography, 1952,” Yehuda Amichai
“Drops in the Bucket,” Kay Ryan.
“I taste a liquor never brewed ” Emily Dickinson
“Question,” May Swenson
“The Railway Children,” Seamus Heaney
“anyone lived in a pretty how town,” e.e cummings
“Poem,” Matthew Rohrer.
“Storm Windows,” Howard Nemerov
“One Art,” Elizabeth Bishop
“Line and Syntax,” Robert Pinsky. 24-49
“Sonnet CXLVII,” Shakespeare
“Those Winter Sundays,” Robert Hayden
“Even the Rain,” Agha Shahid Ali
“Do not go gentle into that good night,” Dylan Thomas
“Some Last Questions,” W.S Merwin.
“Unconscious,” “Came a Beauty,” and “Stone Gullets,” May Swenson.
“Il Pluet,” Guillaume Apollinaire.
“A Green Crab’s Shell,” Mark Doty
“Swarm,” Nick Flynn
“The Compass,” Carl Phillips
“Toad,” “Notes on a Winter Journey,” Norman MacCaig
“In a Station of the Metro,” Ezra Pound
“This is Just to Say” & “The Red Wheelbarrow,” William Carlos Williams.
“Camouflaging the Chimera,” Yusef Komunyakaa
“The Armadillo,” Elizabeth Bishop
“My Shoes,” Charles Simic
“A Bag of Mice,” Nick Flynn.
“A Blessing,” James Wright
“Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio,” James Wright
“Adolescence-II,” Rita Dove
“In the Waiting Room,” Elizabeth Bishop
“Eros,” Louise Gluck
“Getting it Right,” Matthew Dickman
“Backyard Mermaid,” Matthea Harvey
“The Dream Songs,” John Berryman
“This Hour and What is Dead,” Li-Young Lee
“The Truth the Dead Know,” Anne Sexton
“The Promise,” “The Glass,” Sharon Olds
“Daddy,” Sylvia Plath
“Crossword,” “Belarusian I,” Valzhyna Mort (trans. Franz Wright)
“Grandfather Says”
“The Other Side of a River,” Charles Wright
“Rain Downriver,” Philip Levine
“The Drowned Children,” Louise Gluck
“The Bear,” Galway Kinnell
“The Prediction,” Mark Strand
“The Dreadful Has Already Happened,” Mark Strand
“I am Much Too Alone in This World, Yet Not Alone,” Rainer Maria
William Shakespeare – Sonnets 130 and 29
Richard Brautigan – “Gee, You’re So Beautiful that it’s Starting to Rain”
Dylan Thomas – “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night”
Elizabeth Bishop – “One Art”
William Carlos Williams – “This Is Just to Say”
Anne Sexton – “Ringing the Bells”
James Emanuel – “’I’m a Jazz Singer’ She Replied”
Robert Lowell – “Skunk Hour”
William Wordsworth – “Imitations of Immortality”
William Blake – “The Tyger”
Wilfred Owen – “Dulce et Decorum Est”
T.S. Eliot – “The Wasteland” parts I and II
Wallace Stevens – “The Emperor of Ice-Cream”
Adrienne Rich – “Two Songs”
Ted Berrigan – “Sunday Morning”
Ezra Pound – “The River Merchant’s Wife”
Robert Lowell – “Memories of West Street and Lepke”
Henry Reed – “Naming of Parts”
Robert Frost – “A Patch of Old Snow”
Frank O’Hara – “Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed)”
“A Brief Guide to Poetry,” Robert Pinsky
“Acquainted with the Night” by Robert Frost
“Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town” by E.E. Cummings
“First Grade” by Ron Koertge
“Love Poem” by John Frederick Nims
“The Bait” by John Donne
“The Flea” by John Donne
“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlow
“The Schoolchildren” by Louis Gluck
“To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell
“We grow accustomed to the dark” by Emily Dickinson
Adrienne Rich
Allen Ginsberg (limited excerpts )
Atwood, “Siren Song”
Auden, “The Unknown Citizen”
Basho, Haiku 6
Bradstreet, “The Author to Her Book”
Brathwaite, “Ogun”
Byron, “She Walks in Beauty”
Carl Sandburg
Carolyn Forche
Charles Olson (projective verse)
Cummings, “Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town”
Darwish, “Identity Card”
Denise Levertov (organic form)
Derek Walcott
Dickinson, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”
Dickinson, “I’m Nobody! Who are you?”
Donne, “Death, be not proud”
Dylan Thomas (villanelle)
E.E. Cummings
Edmund Spenser
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Elizabeth Bishop (villanelle, sestina)
Emily Dickinson (line breaks)
Emily Dickinson selected poems
Ezra Pound
Frost, “Bereft” and “After Apple Picking”
Handal, “Caribe in Nueva York”
Hirshfield, “This Was Once a Love Poem”
Hughes, “Let America Be America Again”
Jack Kerouac
Jackson Mac Low, procedural poetry
John Berryman
John Keats
Johnson, “The Black Man’s Burden”
Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden”
Lady Mary Wortley Montague
Larkin, “A Study of Reading Habits” and “Toads”
Lord Byron
Lucille Clifton
Mark Strand
Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress”
Mnthali, “The Stranglehold of English Lit”
Mora, “Immigrants”
Olds, “Rite of Passage”
Poetry of Andrew Motion, Billy Collins, and Seamus Heaney
Poetry of Billy Collins
Randall, “Booker T. and W.E.B.”
Randolph Healy (found poetry)
Raymond Queneau
Rilke
Rita Dove
Robert Creeley
Robert Duncan
Robert Frost
Sexton, “Her Kind”
Shakespeare, “When My Love Swears She is Made of Truth” and “Winter”
Sonnet CXVI by William Shakespeare
T.S. Eliot (excerpts from ―Prufrock and ―The Wasteland)
Theodore Roethke
Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night”
W.H. Auden (villanelle, sestina)
Wallace Stevens
Walt Whitman (Song of Myself; more from Leaves of Grass)
Wilde, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol”
William Blake
William Butler Yeats
William Carlos Williams
William Shakespeare (sonnets)
Wordsworth, “I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud”
Achebe, “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness”
Baraka, “Blues People”
Essays from The New York Times regarding literature and writers
Hagan, “The Poor Labyrinth: The Theme of Social Injustice in Dickens's ‘Great Expectations’”
Larry Neal, “Ellison’s Zoot Suit”
Marshall, “The Tempest and British Imperialism in 1611”
Nader, H., “The End of the Old World”
“Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche”
Porter, “Critics of Empire: British Radical Attitudes to Colonialism in Africa” 1895-1914
Said, “Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism”
Skura,“Discourse and the Individual: The Case of Colonialism in ‘The Tempest’”
Speeches or essays by Marcus Garvey, Ras Tafari, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Willis, “Shakespeare's Tempest and the Discourse of Colonialism”
Websites:
PBS – People Like Us -http://www.pbs.org/peoplelikeus/
PBS – The Royal Shakespeare Company – The Winter’s Tale;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvjBz1gXk28
Documentary on Zora Neale Hurston – Lit2Go-http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/
Project Gutenberg
Alexander Pushkin - http://www.alexanderpushkin.com/
Nobel Prize - http://www.nobelprize.org/
Salon - http://www.salon.com/topic/books//
The Rumpus - http://therumpus.net/sections/books/
A View on Ralph Waldo Emerson - http://world.std.com/~albright/E1.html
Analytical essays on Emerson's work.
american literature.com http://www.americanliterature.com/ARCHIVES/ARCHIVES.HTML
American Treasures of the Library of Congress - http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/
Anninna's Toni Morrison Page - http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/tonimorrison/toni.htm)
Interview: Toni Morrison - A Salon.com interview conducted by Zia Jaffrey http://www.salon.com/books/int/1998/02/cov_si_02int.html)
Morrison's 1993Nobel Lecture - http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1993/morrison-lecture.html)
Ownership and the Loss of Communal Ties in Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye"
(http://www.aad.berkeley.edu/96journal/lott.html)
Scholarly paper on themes in The Bluest Eye.
Toni Morrison, Author - http://www.az.com/~andrade/morrison/start.html
Artful Dodge - http://www.wooster.edu/artfuldodge/obrien.html)
Transcript of an interview on war writing conducted by Daniel Bourne and Debra Shostak.
The Vietnam in Me- http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/09/20/specials/obrien-vietnam.html
Tim O”Brien Writing Vietnam - http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WritingVietnam/obrien.html)
Bartleby.com
Classic Bookshelf http://www.classicbookshelf.com/library/
Cyberarts Web http://www.cyberartsweb.org/cpace/
Dartmouth - http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/Library_Bulletin/Nov1989/LB-N89-Evans.html?mswitchredir=classic
Edith Wharton Society - http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/wharton/index.html)
BBC.com
Edith Wharton's World - http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/wharton/index.htm)
An exhibition at the National Gallery.
Folger.edu (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Irish Literature Texts -http://www.ireland-information.com/irishliterature.htm#free
Luminarium
Modern American Poetry - http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/frost/frost.htm
Native American Authors Project - http://www.ipl.org/cgi/ref/native/browse.pl/A1)
Sending Cinematic Smoke Signals: An Interview with Sherman Alexie http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/alexie.html)
An interview conducted by Dennis West and Joan M. West, originally published in Cineaste v23, n4 (Fall,
1998):28.
Online Books Page, UPenn -http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
Poets.org
Project Gutenberg - http://www.gutenberg.org
Raymond Carver Paris Review Interview - http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3059/the-art-of-fictionno-76-raymond-carver
Read Print - http://www.readprint.com/
American Author, Poet & Philosopher - http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96may/emerson.html)
American Transcendentalism - http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transweb/definitionbickman.htm)
Poetry Exhibits - http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=205
The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - http://www.rwe.org/
Shakespeare-online.com
The American Novel - http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/timeline/naturalism.html
The eText Archive - http://www.etext.org/index.shtml
The Museum of American Poetics - http://www.poetspath.com/
The Postcolonial Web http://www.postcolonialweb.org/
The Victorian Web http://www.victorianweb.org/
Victorian Web - http://www.victorianweb.org/
Films and Clips:
Casablanca - Michael Curtiz
The Sixth Sense - M. Night Shyamalan (misdirection, fairness) (with permission slip)
Rebecca – Alfred Hitchcock
Au Revoir Les Enfants- Louis Malle
Oh Brother, Where Art Though - Joel and Ethan Coen (with permission slip)
Being There - Jerzy Kosinski
In America - Jim Sheridan (clips only)
Cider House Rules – Lasse Halstrom ((with permission slip)
Amreeka – Cherien Dabis
Persepolis (clips only)
Boyz N the Hood – John Singleton (clips only)
The Pianist – Roman Polanski (clips only)
Melancholia - Lars Von Friar (clips only)
In Search of Shakespeare – PBS Documentary
The Shipping News – Lasse Hallström (clips only)
After the Wedding (Efter Brylluppet) (clips only)
Napolean Dynamite - Jared Hess (clips only)
Snow Falling On Cedars – Scott Hicks (with permission slip)
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou – Cohen Brothers
Film Clips: Benjamin Button- David Fincher
Film Clips: Their Eyes Were Watching God - Darnell Martin
The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance - PBS (1994, NR)
The Conversation - Francis Ford Coppola
Macbeth - BBC 1983 or PBS 2010 (NR)
PBS Shakespeare Uncovered: Macbeth
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945, NR)
Great Expectations (1999 or 2012, NR)
Charles Dickens: A Tale of Ambition and Genius (A&E Television, 1997, NR)
Clips from Oprah’s Book Club discussion about Great Expectations
BBC The Tempest (1980 NR)
PBS Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness – Films for the Humanities & Science (1998, NR)
Clips from Apocalypse Now (1979, R-edited for content by instructor)
History
CLASSICS 5
Greek and Roman Civilizations, Heidi Dierckx
World Civilizations and Cultures, Don Blattner
Warfare in the Classical World, John Warry
Selections from Historical texts:
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Code of Hammurabi
The Illiad
The Odyssey
The History
The History of the Peloponnesian War
Crito
The Republic
Phaedo
Anabasis
The Politics
Letters and Fragments
The Discourses
The Histories
Parallel Lives
Gallic Wars
The Deeds of the Deified Augustus
The Annals
The Histories
Twelve Caesars
Meditations
The Satires
The Early History of Rome
The Aeneid
The Rope and Other Plays
Cato: A Tragedy, and Selected Essays
Online resources, including:
http://classics.berkeley.edu/resources.php
http://www.library.illinois.edu/clx/
Selections from the following videos:
Author
Unknown
Hammurabi
Homer
Homer
Herodotus
Thucydides
Plato
Plato
Plato
Xenophon
Aristotle
Epicurus
Epictetus
Polybius
Plutarch
Caesar
Augustus
Tacitus
Tacitus
Suetonius
Marcus Aurelius
Juvenal
Livy
Virgil
Plautus
Joseph Addison
The Hittites (Jeremy Irons)
King Tut’s Final Secrets, National Geographic
King Tut Unwrapped, Discovery
Punic Wars: Rome and Carthage
Battle of Cannae 216 BC
Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire: Gaius Marius
Empires: Order from Chaos: Augustus
Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire: Nero
Engineering an Empire: The Byzantines (History Channel)
The Dark Ages
Art:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dem%C3%A9ter_tipo_Madrid-Capitolio_(Museo_del_Prado)_01.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hermes-louvre3.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vulcan_Coustou_Louvre_MR1814.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PallasGiustiniani.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Amphora_birth_Athena_Louvre_F32.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pallas_Athene.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Artemis_libation_Louvre_CA599.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Diane_de_Versailles_Leochares.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ares_Ludovisi_Altemps_Inv8602_n2.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_Artemis_Brygos_Louvre_G151.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Venus_kallipygos03.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:0036MAN_Poseidon.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hera_Campana_Louvre_Ma2283.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Zeus_Getty_Villa.jpg
HISTORY 6: WORLD HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY I
Primary Textbook
Title: World History & Geography
Author(s): Jackson J. Spielvogel
Publisher: McGraw Hill
ISBN: 0-0789-3314-5
Supplemental Sources
Title: World History Map Activities
Publisher: Walch Education
ISBN:0-8251-2880-3
Title: Short Lessons in World History
Publisher: Walch Education
ISBN: 0-8251-6465-1
Title: Civilizations of the Past: Medieval Times
Publisher: Mark Twain Media Publishing Company
ISBN: 978-1-58037-630-3
Title: Civilizations of the Past: World Civilizations & Cultures
Publisher: Mark Twain Media Publishing Company
ISBN: 978-1-58037-634-1
Video Series
YouTube Series, “Crash Course World History,” by John Green
Questar Videos, "Kid's Animated History with Pipo," by Questar
HISTORY 7: US HISTORY
Required Text: McGraw Hill Education, United States History & Geography, ISBN 9780076608652
Cambridge University Press, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, ISBN: 9780521804905
Dover Publications, The Frontier in American History, ISBN: 9780486291673
Harlan Davison Inc., Preserving the Nation: The Conservation and Preservation Movements, ISBN:
9780882952543
Houghton Mifflin, Making America: A History of the United States, ISBN: 0-395-50251-9
John F. Blair, Civil War Blunders, ISBN: 9780895871633
Ken Burn, The Civil War and The National Parks: America’s Best Idea
Knopf, The Civil War, ISBN: 0-394-56285-2
Norton & Company, America: A Narrative History, ISBN: 0-393-97812-5
Oskar Knoblauch, A Boy’s Story – A Man’s Memory: Surviving the Holocaust 1933-1945, ISBN: 9781450777889
Oxford, Down to Earth: Nature’s Role in American History, ISBN: 978-0-19-533182-0
Pocket Books, The Jungle, ISBN: 9780743487627
Sentinel Trade, A Patriots History of the United States: From Columbus’ Great Discovery to the War on Terror,
ISBN: 101595230327
Signet Classics, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, ISBN: 9780451530806
Simon & Shuster, 1776, ISBN: 9780743226714
Holt, Call To Freedom, ISBN:9780030646799
Various educational clips and images on American History from online services such as Google, PBS,
YouTube, Vimeo, Ted Talks, etc.
HISTORY 8: WORLD HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY II
Textbook:
College Level Text: Strayer, Robert W. Ways of the World: A Global History. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s,
2009. (The textbook will be loaned to students for the duration of the school year. Supplementary resources
will be provided in class.)
Supplementary Texts:
A variety of other reading and resources utilized throughout the course include:
Bentley, Jerry and Herbert Ziegler. Traditions and Encounters, AP Edition: A Global Perspective on the Past .
New York: McGraw-Hill.
Crosby, Alfred J. The Columbian Exchange: Biological and
Cultural Consequences of 1492. Praeger, 2003. Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of
Human Society, W. W. Norton & Company, 1999. Green, John. Crash Course World History. Youtube.
Kagan, Donald, Steven Ozment, Frank M. Turner, & Alison Frank. The Western Heritage since 1300 , AP
Edition (11th ed.), Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc., 2014.
Reilly, Kevin. Worlds of History: A Comparative Reader. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2007.
Sass, Eric and Steve Wiegand. The Mental Floss: History of the World. New York: Harper, 2009.
Standage, Tom. History of the World in 6 Glasses. New York: Walker and Company, 2005.
World History in Documents: A Comparative Reader edited by Peter N. Stearns, New York: New York
University Press; 1998.
AP UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Textbooks:
George C. Edwards, et al., Government in America, 13th ed. (Pearson, 2007)
ISBN-13: 9780321411006
Additional Sources:
The United States Constitution
Political Cartoon Analysis Guide
Locke’s Second Treatise on Government
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbs
Nathan O. Hatch, from “The Democratization of Christianity and the Character of American Politics.”
Jon Butler, from “Why Revolutionary America Wasn’t a ‘Christian Nation.’
“Would Al Gore Have Won the 2000 Election if not for the Electoral College” Nate Silver, NY Times
Electoral College Map
What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream? Chomsky
James Madison, Federalist 10 and Federalist 51
Selected Readings from: The Lanahan Readings in the American Polity
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin
TV and Movie Resources:
Various educational clips and images from online services such as Google, PBS, YouTube, and Vimeo, etc.
AP EUROPEAN HISTORY & EUROPEAN HISTORY CAPSTONE
Textbook:
Kagan, Donald, Steven Ozment, Frank M. Turner, & Alison Frank. The Western Heritage since 1300, AP Edition
(11th ed.), Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc., 2014. (The textbook will be loaned to students
for the duration of the school year. Supplementary resources will be provided in class.)
Supplementary Texts:
A variety of other reading and resources utilized throughout the course include:
Bentley, Jerry and Herbert Ziegler. Traditions and Encounters, AP Edition: A Global Perspective on the Past .
New York: McGraw-Hill.
Crosby, Alfred J. The Columbian Exchange: Biological and
Cultural Consequences of 1492. Praeger, 2003.
Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human
Society, W. W. Norton & Company, 1999.
Green, John. Crash Course World History. Youtube. Kagan, Donald, Steven Ozment, Frank M. Turner, &
Alison Frank. The Western Heritage since 1300 , AP Edition (11th ed.), Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson
Education, Inc., 2014.
AP UNITED STATES HISTORY
Textbook:
Fraser, James, By the People, A History of the United States ISBN: 978-0131366336
Additional Sources:
Cohen, Elizabeth A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar
America (New York: Vintage, 2003). ISBN: 9780375707377
Calloway, Colin. New Worlds All: Indians, Europeans and the Remaking of Early America.
(John Hopkins University Press, 1998) ISBN: 9780801859595
Cobbs, Elizabeth, Blum, Edward J. and Gjerde, Jon, Major Problems in American History (New
York: Cengage, 2011) ISBN: 9780495915133
Cronon, William. Nature’s Metropolis (New York: W.W. Norton, 1992) ISBN: 9780393308730
Faust, Drew Gilpin. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (New York:
Vintage, 2009) ISBN: 9780375703836
Faust, Drew Gilpin. “The Civil War Soldier and the Art of Dying,” Journal of Southern History
67:1 (February 2001),
Freeman, Joanne. Affairs of Honor (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002) ISBN:
9780300097559
Grandin, Greg. The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom and Deception in the New World
New York: Picador, 2015) ISBN: 9781250062109
Mann, Charles “1491,” The Atlantic Monthly (March 2002)
Morgan, Edward. American Slavery, American Freedom (New York: W.W. Norton, 2003)
ISBN: 9780393324945
Rediker, Marcus. The Slave Ship: A Human History (New York: Penguin Books, 2008) ISBN:
9780143114253
Schulman, Bruce The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society and Politics (New
York: Da Capo Press, 2002) ISBN: 9780306811265
Young, Elliot. Alien Nation: Chinese Migration in the Americas from the Coolie Era through
World War II (Charlotte: University of North Carolina Press, 2014) ISBN: 9781469612966
Wilkerson, Elizabeth The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
(New York: Vintage, 2011) ISBN: 9780679763888
Cambridge University Press, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, ISBN: 9780521804905
Dover Publications, The Frontier in American History, ISBN: 9780486291673
Harlan Davison Inc., Preserving the Nation: The Conservation and Preservation Movements, ISBN:
9780882952543
Houghton Mifflin, Making America: A History of the United States, ISBN: 0-395-50251-9
John F. Blair, Civil War Blunders, ISBN: 9780895871633
Ken Burn, The Civil War and The National Parks: America’s Best Idea
Knopf, The Civil War, ISBN: 0-394-56285-2
Norton & Company, America: A Narrative History, ISBN: 0-393-97812-5
Oskar Knoblauch, A Boy’s Story – A Man’s Memory: Surviving the Holocaust 1933-1945, ISBN: 9781450777889
Sentinel Trade, A Patriots History of the United States: From Columbus’ Great Discovery to the War on Terror,
ISBN: 101595230327
Signet Classics, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, ISBN: 9780451530806
American Experiences: Readings in American History. Roberts and Olson.
Major Problems in American History, vol I and II. Cobbs-Hoffman, Blum, Gjerde.
Historical Movements: Changing Interpretations of America’s Past. McClellan.
Conflict and Consensus in American History, vol I and II. Davis and Woodman.
A People’s History of the United States, Zinn.
Video resources:
Various educational clips and images from online services such as Google, PBS, YouTube, and Vimeo, etc.
Introduction to Science 5
Textbooks: Glencoe Science Red, 2002
ISBN: 0-07-828238-1
General sites: www.smarttech.com: lessons in biology, chemistry, and physics www.youtube.com: lessons
in biology, chemistry, and physics www.discoveryeducation.com: lessons in biology, chemistry, and
physics www.betterlessons.com: lessons in biology, chemistry, and physics www.mysciencebox.org:
lessons in biology www.youtube.com : Mr. Edmonds, Rube Goldberg project
CD: They Might Be Giants: various songs: biology, chemistry, and physics
The Bonus Points Band
Video Clips: AVI
Metallic properties
scientific method
Atom
cells, tissues, organs
Circuits
diatoms
Energy
plants
Animals
magnets
Astronomy
visible light
Simple machines
matter
Biology www.mahalo.com www.mysciencebox.org www.plantsinmotion.bio.indiana.edu/plantmotion
Chemistry www.chemsite.lsrhe.net
Physics http://www.jasonproject.com
www.physicsgames.net
www.PHYisFUN.com
iTunes podcast-phoenix science center
Journalism
Texts:
Mencher, Melvin: News Reporting and Writing, 12th edition, McGraw-Hill
Newton, Eric: Searchlights & Sunglasses: Field Notes from the Digital Age of Journalism (available from the
Knight Foundation)
Briggs, Mark: Journalism 2.0: A digital literacy guide for the information age (available from the Knight
Foundation)
Osborn, Patricia: School Newspaper Advisor’s Survival Guide, Jossey-Bass
Kokino, Olga: Journalism, TeachingPoint
Reference:
The Associated Press Style Manual and Libel Guide
Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary
Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Thesaurus
Anthologies:
Eyewitness to History, edited by John Carey
The New Journalists, edited by Tom Wolfe
The Literary Journalists
The New New Journalism: Conversations with America’s Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft, Edited by
Robert Boynton
In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction, edited by Lee Gutkind
Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide, edited by Mark Kramer and Wendy Call
Articles:
Various news sites and blogs, per the teacher’s discretion.
Bly, Nellie: “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, as originally published in The New York World, 1887
Talese, Gay: “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold”, as originally published in Esquire, April 1966
Stories and photographs from the archives of The Pulitzer Prizes at http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat
The 9/11 bombing of the World Trade Centers, coverage by various news sources.
Buzzfeed posts on a tweet by PR executive Justine Sacco, Dec. 20, 2013.
Websites for the following organizations (including their educational divisions):
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Associated Press
Society of Professional Journalists
National Press Association
Journalism Education Association
Poynter Institute
Nieman Foundation
Variety of news outlets, including the major broadcast and cable networks, national and regional
newspapers, and commercial and public radio.
US National Archives
Foreign Languages
FRENCH (7-12)
TEXTBOOKS
Title: Bien dit ! French 1
Authors: John DeMado, Séverine Champeny, Marie Ponterio, Robert Ponterio
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. ISBN: 0-030-39888-6
Title: Débuts: An Introduction to French, 3rd Edition
Authors: H. Jay Siskin, Ann Williams, Thomas T. Field
Publisher: McGraw-Hill. ISBN: 978-0-07-727292-0
Title: Deux Mondes: A Communicative Approach, 6th Edition
Authors: Tracy D. Terrell, Mary B. Rogers, Betsy J, Kerr, Guy Spielmann
Publisher: McGraw-Hill. ISBN: 978-0-07-332689-4
Title: En avant! Introduction à la langue et la culture françaises
Authors: Hadley Wood, Thomas J. Cox, Françoise Demerson-Baker
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company. ISBN: 0-395-60632-2
Title: Espaces: Rendez-vous avec le monde francophone, 2nd Edition
Authors: Cherie Mitschke, Cheryl Tano
Publisher: Vista Higher Learning. ISBN: 978-1-60576-090-2
Title: Face-à-Face: Conversation et rédaction
Authors: Françoise Ghillebaert
Publisher: Vista Higher Learning. ISBN: 978-1-60576-118-3
Title: Horizons
Authors: Joan h. Manley, Stuart Smith, John T. McMinn, Marc A. Prévost
Publisher: Heinle & Heinle Publishers. ISBN: 0-8384-7938-3
WORKBOOKS
Title: Bien dit ! Cahier de vocabulaire et de grammaire, French 1
Author: Diane Harwood, Christine Schiller
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. ISBN: 0-03-079721-7
Title: Espaces Workbook/Video Manual
Author: Cherie Mitschke
Publisher: Vista Higher Learning. ISBN: 978-1-60576-163-3
WEBSITES
http://books.quia.com/books/
http://www.tv5.org/
http://www.france3.fr/
http://www.france24.com/en/
http://lepointdufle.net/
http://www.zut.org.uk/index.html
http://www.lesmetiers.net/
http://ambafrance-us.org/
http://www.lexpress.fr/
http://www-k6.thinkcentral.com/ePCLandingPage/
LATIN 5 & 6
Primary Text:
Latin for Americans, Level 1; B.L. Ullman and Charles Henderson, Jr.
Glencoe/McGraw Hill 2007
ISBN-13: 978-0078281754
There will be a classroom set of this text, but the students may purchase a copy of the text from the
publisher’s website: www.glencoe.com
Latin for Americans, Level 1 workbook, student edition
Ullman and Charles Henderson, Jr. Glencoe/McGraw Hill 2007
ISBN-13: 978-007828175X
Supplementary material:
English Grammar for Students of Latin, Norma Goldman and Ladislas Szymanski
Latin Via Ovid: A First Course, Norma Goldman
Wheelock’s Latin 7th Edition, Frederick Wheelock and Richard LaFleur
Scribblers, Sculptors, and Scribes, Richard LaFleur
38 Latin Stories, Anne H. Groton
Selections from Historical texts:
The Illiad
The Odyssey
The History
The History of the Peloponnesian War
Complete Works
Complete Works
Complete Works
Gallic Wars
The Deeds of the Deified Augustus
Twelve Caesars
The Early History of Rome
Complete Works
Loeb Classical Library
Complete Works
The Histories
Humanist Educational Treatises
Author
Homer
Homer
Herodotus
Thucydides
Plato
Xenophon
Aristotle
Caesar
Augustus
Suetonius
Livy
Virgil
Harvard Publishing
Michael Psellos
Herodian
Craig Kallendorf
Online resources, including:
http://classics.berkeley.edu/resources.php
http://www.library.illinois.edu/clx/
Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum.
The Latin Library.
Bibilotheca Augustana.
Corpus Grammaticorum Latinorum: complete texts and full bibliography.
procrastinaut.tumblr.com
Relevant language and context videos from YouTube primarily from the following channels: TTTopGun,
LatinTutorial, LatinAudio, The Partially Examined Life, BBCRadio4, Dr. Gregory B. Sadler
LATIN 7-9
Primary Text:
Wheelock’s Latin: 7th Edition – Frederic M. Wheelock and Richard A. LaFleur
Textbooks:
Cambridge Latin: 4th Edition
Workbook for Wheelock’s Latin: 3rd Edition, Revised – Paul T. Comeau & Richard A. LaFleur
Scribblers, Sculptors, and Scribes: A Companion to Wheelock’s Latin and Other Introductory Textbooks –
Richard A. LaFleur
Oxford Latin Course: College Edition – Maurce Balem and James Morwood
Reading Latin: Peter V. Jones and Keith C. Sidwell
38 Latin Stories- Anne H. Groton and James M. May
Beginning Latin Poetry Reader: Gavin Betts and Daniel Franklin
Short Latin Stories- Philip Dunlop
X-Treme Latin: All the Latin You Need for Surviving the 21st Century
Latin Phrases & Quotations: Richard A. Branyon
Latin Alive – Joseph B. Solodow
Latin: An Intensive Course – Floyd L. Moreland and Rim M. Fleischer
Jenny's Latin
Latin via Ovid: A First Course Second Edition – Jacob E. Nyenhuis and Norma W. Goldman
Practice! Practice! A Latin via Ovid Workbook
Traditio- Patricia Johnston
Learn to Read Latin – Andrew Keller and Stephanie Russell
Latin Authors:
Caesar
Cicero
Livy
Catullus
Ovid
Horace
Lucan
Lucretius
Tibullus
Martial
Nepos
Pliny the Younger
Plautus
Terence
Vergil
Supplementary Texts:
Living in Ancient Rome ed. Norman Bancroft Hunt
Daily Life in Ancient Rome – Jerome Carcopino
The Romans from Village to Empire- Mary T. Boatwright, Daniel J. Gargola, Richard J. A. Talbert
The Romans for Dummies: Guy de la Bédoyère
Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome: Leslie Adkins and Roy A. Adkins
The Cambridge Ancient History Volume IX: The Roman Republic 133-44 B.C.
The Romans from Village to Empire- Mary T. Boatwright, Daniel J. Gargola, Richard J. A. Talbert
From the Gracchi to Nero - HH Scullard
A History of Rome Down to the Reign of Constantine, Third Edition – Max Cary and H. H. Scullard
The Art of the Aeneid by William Anderson
Ancient Rome on 5 Denarii a Day by Philip Matyszak
The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic edited by Harriet Flower
Online Materials:
Monty Python and The Holy Grail Monks (with subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4q6eaLn2mY
Disney Songs in Latin:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMyGD7TkSz7NHxKkYR7puxkpo7dwXOS9J
LATIN 10-11
AP Texts:
Caesar: Selections from his Commentarii De Bello Gallico – Caesar and Hans-Friedrich Mueller
College Caesar: Jeffrey Steadman
Vergil’s Aeneid Books I – VI – Vergil and Clyde Pharr
Vergil Aeneid 1-6, Randall Ganiban (commentary)
Translations:
Virgil's Aeneid translated by Robert Fagles and Bernard Knox
Other Latin Authors:
Caesar (Other Works)
Cicero
Livy
Catullus
Ovid
Horace
Lucan
Tibullus
Martial
Nepos
Pliny the Younger
Plautus
Terence
Vergil (Other Works)
Supplementary Texts:
The Cambridge Ancient History Volume IX: The Roman Republic 133-44 B.C.
The Romans from Village to Empire- Mary T. Boatwright, Daniel J. Gargola, Richard J. A. Talbert
From the Gracchi to Nero - HH Scullard
A History of Rome Down to the Reign of Constantine, Third Edition – Max Cary and H. H. Scullard
The Art of the Aeneid by William Anderson
Ancient Rome on 5 Denarii a Day by Philip Matyszak
The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic edited by Harriet Flower
Grammar Books:
Wheelock’s Latin: 7th Edition – Frederic M. Wheelock and Richard A. LaFleur
Gildersleeve’s Latin Grammar – B. L. Gildersleeve and G. Lodge
Allen and Greenough’s New Latin Grammar (Dover Language Guides): James B. Greenough and J. H.
Allen
Music Albums:
Helvetios - Eluveitie
Aeneid – Heimdall
Online Materials:
Rome the Rise and Fall of an Empire – Julius Caesar Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUGycQKs2v8
Julius Caesar’s Greatest Battle (Full Documentary) (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZO_grVamQY
Disney Songs in Latin:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMyGD7TkSz7NHxKkYR7puxkpo7dwXOS9J
MANDARIN (7-12)
Textbooks and workbooks
Learn Chinese with Me (Book One): Student’s Book 1 + 2 CDs by People’s Education Press
ISBN: 978-7-107-16422-4
Learn Chinese with Me (Book One): Workbook 1 by People’s Education Press
ISBN: 978-7-107-17086-7
Learn Chinese with Me (Book Two): Student’s Book 2 + 2 CDs by People’s Education Press
ISBN: 978-7-107-17422-3
Learn Chinese with Me (Book Two): Workbook 2 by People’s Education Press
ISBN: 978-7-107-17545-9
Learn Chinese with Me (Book Three): Student’s Book 3 + 2 CDs by People’s Education Press
ISBN: 978-7-107-17719-4
Learn Chinese with Me (Book Three): Workbook 3 by People’s Education Press
ISBN: 978-7-107-18229-7
Movies
Mulan
Shaolin Temple
CJ 7
Frozen
Harry Potter
Secret
YouTube Video Clips
Music, including but not limited to the following:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XTBwvi0h2E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKCzMXPr7YU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I39IG0evN7A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXqSPJpuDBM&feature=related
(Discovery) 7 wonders of China http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69pMsNaLSfk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_V_Kc2-LFQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Tsk9nU-6s0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrWG-KAaPI4
On the go tours (China)
http://www.youtube.com/user/onthegotours?v=Z_p4j8XlJKM&feature=pyv
Shanghai
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUXXLqKQ2w4
Other Online Resources
http://english.cntv.cn/
http://chunwan.cct.com
www.quizlet.com
Reference Books
History of China
My First Chinese New Year
My Chinese Picture Dictionary
Xinhua Dictionary with English Translation
Chinese Folk Tales
Chinese Traditional Culture and Modern Life
Zhen Bang
Encounters Chinese
Exploring Chinese
Chinese Link
Great Wall Chinese
Jia You-Chinese for the Global Community
Chinese Treasure Chest Volume 1 & 2
Setting the Stage for Chinese (Plays and Performance for Grades K-6, 7-12)
ELEMENTARY SPANISH (SPANISH 7)
Realidades 1 by Boyles, ISBN 9780131340916
This textbook is part of a classroom set in which students may check out books overnight. Online materials
may be accessed at realidades.com. Realidades Vocabulary & Grammar Workbook Level 1 ISBN -10:
0133225712. This workbook is available for purchase from the school. Classwork and homework may be
assigned from it. If a workbook is NOT purchased, the student will be provided a workbook by the teacher
and must copy and complete the assignment on a separate piece of paper.
Additional Resources:
Books
La guitarra misteriosa by EMC
Viviana y su gran Aventura Mexicana by AMSCO
DVD
“eres tu María”,
Atlético San Pancho
Websites:
Formespa
http://formespa.rediris.es/canciones/
Videos de “El Mundo” de España
http://www.elmundo.es/videos/
Films for the Humanities
http://ffh.films.com/
Audiria
http://www.audiria.com
Pearson/Prentice Hall
http://www.phschool.com/
Wayside Publishing: triangulo
http://waysidepublishing.com/
Radio Naciones Unidas
http://www.un.org/radio/es/
BBC Mundo
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/news/
Notes in Spanish
http://www.notesinspanish.com/
Think Spanish
http://www.thinklanguage.com/spanish/
Centro Virtual Cervantes
http://cvc.cervantes.es/
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/
INTERMEDIATE SPANISH (SPANISH 8)
Realidades 1 by Boyles, ISBN 9780131340916
This textbook is part of a classroom set in which students may check out books overnight. Online materials
may be accessed at realidades.com. Realidades Vocabulary & Grammar Workbook Level 1 ISBN: -10:
0133225712. This workbook is available for purchase from the school. Classwork and homework may be
assigned from it. If a workbook is NOT purchased, the student will be provided a workbook by the teacher
and must copy and complete the assignment on a separate piece of paper.
Additional Resources:
Books
La guitarra misteriosa by EMC
Viviana y su gran Aventura Mexicana by AMSCO
DVD
“eres tu María”, 2. Atlético San Pancho
Websites:
Formespa
http://formespa.rediris.es/canciones/
Videos de “El Mundo” de España
http://www.elmundo.es/videos/
Films for the Humanities
http://ffh.films.com/
Audiria
http://www.audiria.com
Pearson/Prentice Hall
http://www.phschool.com/
Wayside Publishing: triangulo
http://waysidepublishing.com/
Radio Naciones Unidas
http://www.un.org/radio/es/
BBC Mundo
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/news/
Notes in Spanish
http://www.notesinspanish.com/
Think Spanish
http://www.thinklanguage.com/spanish/
Centro Virtual Cervantes
http://cvc.cervantes.es/
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/
SPANISH II (9th grade)
Realidades 2 by Boyles, ISBN 978-0133691733
This textbook is part of a classroom set in which students may check out books overnight. Online materials
may be accessed at realidades.com. Realidades Vocabulary & Grammar Workbook Level 2 ISBN -13: 9780133692693 this workbook is available for purchase from the school. Classwork and homework may be
assigned from it. If a workbook is NOT purchased, the student will be provided a workbook and will have to
copy the assignment and complete the work on a separate piece of paper.
Other Resources:
Books
La guitarra misteriosa by EMC
Viviana y su gran Aventura Mexicana by AMSCO
DVDs:
“eres tu Maria”,
San Pancho,
Bajo la misma luna,
Casi Casi
Websites:
Formespa
http://formespa.rediris.es/canciones/
Videos de “El Mundo” de España
http://www.elmundo.es/videos/
Films for the Humanities
http://ffh.films.com/
Audiria
http://www.audiria.com
Pearson/Prentice Hall
http://www.phschool.com/
Wayside Publishing: triangulo
http://waysidepublishing.com/
Radio Naciones Unidas
http://www.un.org/radio/es/
BBC Mundo
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/news/
Notes in Spanish
http://www.notesinspanish.com/
Think Spanish
http://www.thinklanguage.com/spanish/
Centro Virtual Cervantes
http://cvc.cervantes.es/
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/
SPANISH III (10th grade)
Realidades 3 by Boyles, ISBN: 978-0133691757
This textbook is part of a classroom set in which students may check out books overnight. Online materials
may be accessed at realidades.com. Realidades Vocabulary & Grammar Workbook Level 3 ISBN: 13: 9780133225730. This workbook is available for purchase from the school. Classwork and homework may be
assigned from it. If a workbook is NOT purchased, the student will be provided a workbook by the teacher
and must copy and complete the assignment on a separate piece of paper.
Additional Resources:
Books
Cuentos Maravillosos- La Gramática atraves de la Literatura
AP Temas
El triangulo
Conexiones
DVDs:
Like water for chocolate (fragments only),
The Devil’s Miner,
Il Postino,
Machuca (fragments only),
Romero (fragements),
Viva Cuba
SPANISH IV/PRE-AP (11th and 12th grades)
Realidades 3 by Boyles, ISBN: 978-0133691757
This textbook is part of a classroom set in which students may check out books overnight. Online materials
may be accessed at realidades.com. Realidades Vocabulary & Grammar Workbook Level 3 ISBN: 13: 9780133225730. This workbook is available for purchase from the school. Classwork and homework may be
assigned from it. If a workbook is NOT purchased, the student will be provided a workbook by the teacher
and must copy and complete the assignment on a separate piece of paper.
Additional Resources:
Books
Cuentos Maravillosos- La Gramática atraves de la Literatura
AP Temas
El triangulo
Conexiones
DVDs:
Like water for chocolate (fragments only),
The Devil’s Miner,
Il Postino,
Machuca (fragments only),
Romero (fragements),
Viva Cuba
Logic 7
Students will receive handouts of readings from various philosophers, politicians, and thinkers from across
the intellectual spectrum, including but not limited to:
Aristotle, Plato, Thomas Aquinas, Immanuel Kant, Rene Descartes, John Rawls, Robert Nozick, John Searle,
Daniel Dennett, Karl Marx, Ayn Rand, H.L. Mencken, Martin Luther King, Bertrand Russell, William James,
Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Frederic Bastiat.
Reference materials used:
Aristotle’s Logic and Rhetoric
Plato’s Apology and Republic
Logic and Philosophy: A Modern Introduction by Hausman, Kahane, & Tidman
Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric by Cavender & Kahane
A Workbook for Arguments by Morrow & Weston
An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments by Almossawi & Giraldo
A Rulebook for Arguments by Anthony Weston
Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student by Corbett & Connors
TED Talks, debates, and other logic- and rhetoric-related videos on http://youtube.com.
Students will do research for argument topics from various web and news sources, including:
http://wikipedia.org
http://news.yahoo.com
http://news.google.com
http://www.bbc.com/news
http://www.logic-puzzles.org/
https://www.brainbashers.com/logic.asp
http://brainden.com/logic-puzzles.htm
Mathematics
MATH 8/7
Saxon Math 8/7 by Stephen Hake and John Saxon, ISBN #: 1-56577-509-0
PRE-ALGEBRA
Algebra ½, 3rd edition by Stephen Hake and John Saxon, ISBN: 1-56577-149-4
ALGEBRA I/GEOMETRY
Algebra 1: An Incremental Development, 3rd Edition by John H. Saxon Jr., ISBN-10: 1565771346
A classroom set will also be available for Saxon Geometry: 9th Edition, ISBN-10: 160277305X
Additional Resources:
YouTube for mathematical videos
TED talks with mathematical content
Khan Academy
ALGEBRA II/GEOMETRY
Algebra 2, Second Edition, Author: Saxon, J., Publisher: Saxon Publishers, Inc., ISBN: 0-939798-62-X
A classroom set will also be available for Saxon Geometry: 9th Edition, ISBN-10: 160277305X
Additional Resources:
YouTube for mathematical videos
TED talks with mathematical content
Khan Academy
PRECALCULUS A & PRECALCULUS AB
Student Textbook: Advanced Mathematics: An Incremental Development Second Edition Author: John H.
Saxon, Jr. Publisher: Saxon Publishers, Inc. ISBN: 1-56577-039-0
The teacher will also reference Saxon Geometry: 9th Edition, ISBN-10: 160277305X in his instruction.
Additional Resources:
YouTube for mathematical videos
TED talks with mathematical content
Khan Academy
Wikipedia and Wolfram Alpha pages, various math challenges and problems MAY be used from time to
time.
AP CALCULUS AB & AP CALCULUS BC
Title: Calculus with Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry, Second Edition
Author: Saxon, J., Wang, F. Publisher: Saxon Publishers, Inc., ISBN: 1-56577-146-X
MULTIVARIABLE CALCULUS
Primary Text: Multivariable Calculus – 6th ed. - James Stewart
Kahn academy videos on multivariable calc. (videos)
Paul’s Online Notes for Calculus III (example problems, review materials)
MIT OCW Multivariable Calculus (videos, worksheets, review packets)
Performing Arts
ART HISTORY AND PRACTICE: BAND 6
REQUIRED METHOD BOOK:
Accent on Achievement, Book 1
SUPPLEMENTS:
A History of Western Music by Donald J. Grout
History of Musical Instruments by Curt Sachs
Rhythmic Training by Robert Starer
Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought), Kathleen Krull and
Kathryn Hewitt
Music History, Michael Miller
Music Listening Today, Charles Hoffer
Music in Western Civilization, Craig Wright and Bryan Simms
WEBSITES
www.musictheory.net
www.metronomeonline.com
Various YouTube videos under the umbrella of professional performance ensembles, such as college wind
ensembles, professional wind ensembles, college symphony orchestras, and professional symphony
orchestras. Videos of professional singers, opera, choruses. Additional content pertaining to the
professional performance of wind ensembles, concert bands, symphonies, vocalists, Broadway, chamber
music, and soloists.
BAND 7
REQUIRED METHOD BOOK:
Foundations for Superior Performance by Jeff King and Richard Williams.
SUPPLEMENTS:
A Creative Approach to Music Fundamentals, William Duckworth
A New Approach to Sight Singing, Sol Berkowitz, Gabriel Fontrier, and Leo Kraft
Guide to Symphonic Music, Edward Downes
Music in Theory and Practice, Vol. 1, Bruce Benward
Rhythmic Training, Robert Starer
The Symphony, Michael Steinberg
Tonal Harmony, Stefan Kostka and Dorothy Payne
Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music by Robert Gauldin
A History of Western Music by Donald J. Grout
History of Musical Instruments by Curt Sachs
WEBSITES
www.musictheory.net
www.metronomeonline.com
Various YouTube videos under the umbrella of professional performance ensembles, such as college wind
ensembles, professional wind ensembles, college symphony orchestras, and professional symphony
orchestras. Videos of professional singers, opera, choruses. Additional content pertaining to the
professional performance of wind ensembles, concert bands, symphonies, vocalists, Broadway, chamber
music, and soloists.
UPPER SCHOOL BAND (8-12)
REQUIRED METHOD BOOK:
Foundations for Superior Performance by Jeff King and Richard Williams
A Creative Approach to Music Fundamentals, WilliamDuckworth
A New Approach to Sight Singing, Sol Berkowitz, Gabriel Fontrier, and Leo Kraft
Guide to Symphonic Music, Edward Downes
Music in Theory and Practice, Vol. 1, Bruce Benward
The Symphony, Michael Steinberg
Tonal Harmony, Stefan Kostka and Dorothy Payne
Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music by Robert Gauldin
A History of Western Music by Donald J. Grout
History of Musical Instruments by Curt Sachs
Manuel Practique – pour l’etude des cles (Dandelot – Nouvelle Edition)
Rhythmic Training by Robert Starer
WEBSITES
www.musictheory.net
www.metronomeonline.com
www.dci.org
www.wgi.org
Various YouTube videos under the umbrella of professional performance ensembles, such as college wind
ensembles, professional wind ensembles, college symphony orchestras, and professional symphony
orchestras. Videos of professional singers, opera, choruses. Additional content pertaining to the
professional performance of wind ensembles, concert bands, symphonies, vocalists, Broadway, chamber
music, and soloists.
CHORUS 5
Music (In-Class Listening)
Johann Sebastian Bach Toccata & Fugue in d minor
Ludwig Van Beethoven Symphony No. 5
John Cage
Sonata X
Aaron Copland
Hoedown from Rodeo
Claude Debussy
Clair de Lune
Antonin Dvorak
Symphony No. 9 Finale
George Gershwin
An American in Paris
George Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue
George Frideric Handel Messiah (Halleluiah Chorus)
Scott Joplin
Maple Leaf Rag
Guillaume de Machaut Messe de Nostre Dame
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Overture to Marriage of Figaro
Carl Orff
Carmina Burana
Josquin des Prez
El Grillo
Camille Saint-Saens
Carnival of the Animals
Igor Stravinsky
Rite of Spring
P.I. Tchaikovsky
1812 Overture
Antonio Vivaldi
Richard Wagner
John Williams
Spring from the Four Seasons
Ride of the Valkyries
Star Wars Theme
Videos/DVDs
Annie
Charlie Brown/Warner Bros
Fantasia
Fantasia 2000
Finian’s Rainbow
The Magic Flute
Music from the Inside Out
The Music Man
Peter and the Wolf
Princess and the Frog
Rossini’s Ghost
The Sound of Music
Those Amazing Musical Instruments
Toot, Whistle, Plunk, and Boom
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (original)
Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
Websites
http://makingmusicfun.net/
http://www.opusmusicworksheets.com/
http://learnmusictheory.net/
http://susanparadis.wordpress.com/
DRAMA AND THEATRE PRODUCTION (GRADES 6-12)
CHILDREN’S PLAYS: Peter Pan and Wendy, Rapunzel Uncut, A Nuther Thing, The Seussification of Romeo and
Juliet, The Wizard of Oz, Cap’N Hook, Goldilocks On Trial, Huddles, Thank You For Flushing My Head In The
Toilet, Amazing Adventures of The Marvelous Monkey King, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good,
Very Bad Day, All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten, Mother Goosed, Billy Shakespeare’s
Christmas Extravaganza and Traveling Freak Show, The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon (1 act version), The
Real Me, Going To School, After Math, Magic Theatre I & II, Readin’, Ritin’, And Rithmetic’, 13 Ways to Screw
Up Your College Interview, The Idiot’s Guide To High School
NON-CHILDREN’S PLAYS: Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo & Juliet, Much Ado About
Nothing, Taming of The Shrew, Man Woman Flower, The Scarlet Letter, The Crucible, Of Mice And Men, A
Doll’s House, The Importance of Being Earnest, Our Town, Over The River and Through, The Woods, The Boys
Next Door, Dearly Departed, Period Of Adjustment, The Odd Couple (Female Version),* *Fools,*Brighton
Beach Memoirs, California Suite,, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it To You, The Actor’s Nightmare, Table
Settings, Coastal Disturbances, You Can’t Take It With You, What I Did Last Summer, The Country Girl, I Never
Saw Another Butterfly, Arsenic And Old Lace, Little Women, Quilters, The Quiet Place, Mr. Hobbs’ Vacation,
The Red Lamp, Pride and Prejudice, Standing On My Knees, Toys In The Attic, The Country Girl, The Sign in
Sidney Brustein’s Window, The Days and Nights of Beebee Fenstermaker, The Teahouse Of August Moon,
Laundry and Bourbon, Proof, A Memory of Two Mondays, What I Did Last Summer, Long Day’s Journey Into
Night, A Moon for the Misbegotten, The Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape, The Iceman Cometh, Mourning
Becomes Electra, Miss Kentucky, Sandy is an Eggplant, Twisting Turning Death Machine, and additional
classics
MUSICALS/PLAYS ON FILM: Singing In the Rain, Rent, Anything Goes, Seussical, Once On This Island, Anything
Goes, Godspell, Jesus Christ Superstar, PBS B’Way The American Musical, Broadway’s Lost Treasures
Collection, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado about Nothing, The Boys Next Door, Steel Magnolias,
My Cousin Vinny, To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men, and additional classics
INTERNET SEARCHES ON YOUTUBE: Select clips of The Carol Burnett Show, Whose Line Is It Anyway, So You
Think You Can Dance, America’s Got Talent, American Idol, Dancing With The Stars, Select musical artists
for Song Story Unit, various pantomime clips including Marcel Marceau, Top 10 Worst Movie Accents, Top
10 Actors Who Can Pull Off Foreign Accents, Foley Sound Studios, and additional searches for Musical
Theatre, Drama, Shakespeare, Broadway, Radio City Rockettes, famous actors and playwrights
TEXTBOOKS: Drama Projects, Theatre- Art in Action, The Stage And The School, Respect For Acting,
Shakespeare For Dummies
ART HISTORY AND PRACTICE: STRINGS 6
Books
Erickson, Frank, John Kinyan, and John O’Reilly. Yamaha Performance Folio. Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Publishing
Co., Inc., 1994. ISBN: 073900140X
Feldstein, Sandy and John O’Reilly. Yamaha Band Student: A Band Method. Book 1. Van Nuys, CA: Alfred
Publishing Co., Inc., 1988. ISBN: 0882844075
Feldstein, Sandy and John O’Reilly. Yamaha Band Student: A Band Method. Book 2. Van Nuys, CA: Alfred
Publishing Co., Inc., 1988. ISBN: 0739021117
Hoffer, Charles. Music Listening Today. Third edition. Belmont, CA: Thomson Schirmer, 2007. ISBN: 049509076X
Krull, Kathleen and Kathryn Hewitt. Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors
Thought). San Diego: Harcourt, Inc., 2002. ISBN: 0152480102
Miller, Michael. Music History. New York, NY: Alpha Books, 2008. ISBN: 978-1592577514
Musical Instruments of the World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. New York, NY: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.,
1997. ISBN: 0806998474
Wade-Mathews, Max and Wendy Thompson. The Encyclopedia of Music: Instruments of the Orchestra and
the Great Composers. London: Hermes House, 2003. ISBN: 0681890436
Wright, Craig and Bryan Sims. Music in Western Civilization. Belmont, CA: Thompsom Schirmer, 2006. ISBN:
0534619622
DVDs/Videos:
Annie
Charlie Brown/Warner Bros
Fantasia
Fantasia 2000
Finian’s Rainbow
Music from the Inside Out
The Music Man
Oliver
Peter and the Wolf
Princess and the Frog
Rossini’s Ghost
The Sound of Music
Those Amazing Musical Instruments
Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
Youtube Videos
Vielle, Ancient Dance tune played by Barry Hall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPKhBkLgFLk
STRINGS 7
Music Books
Blair, Peter. Concert Ensembles for Everyone. Dayton, OH: Heritage Music Press, 2006. ISBN: 0893282588
Erickson, Frank, John Kinyan, and John O’Reilly. Yamaha Performance Folio. Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Publishing
Co., Inc., 1994. ISBN: 073900140X
Feldstein, Sandy and John O’Reilly. Yamaha Band Student: A Band Method. Book 1. Van Nuys, CA: Alfred
Publishing Co., Inc., 1988. ISBN: 0882844075
Feldstein, Sandy and John O’Reilly. Yamaha Band Student: A Band Method. Book 2. Van Nuys, CA: Alfred
Publishing Co., Inc., 1988. ISBN: 0739021117
Niehaus, Lennie, arr. FlexTrios for Woodwinds. Delevan, NY: Kendor Music, Inc., 2008.
Ryden, William. Classical Duets for All. Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Publishing, Co., 1996. ISBN: 0769255272
Stoutamire, Albert and Kenneth Henderson. Quartets for All. Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Publishing, Co., 1993.
ISBN: 0769255426
Stoutamire, Albert and Kenneth Henderson. Trios for All. Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Publishing, Co., 1985. ISBN:
0769254640
Music (in-class listening)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Samuel Barber
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Georges Bizet
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
Benjamin Britten
Aaron Copland
Antonin Dvorak
Edward Elgar
Cesar Frank
Edvard Grieg
George Frederic Handel
George Frederic Handel
Franz Joseph Haydn
Charles Ives
Franz Liszt
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini
Camille Saint-Saens
Dmitri Shostakovich
Franz Schubert
Bedrich Smetana
Igor Stravinsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Ralph Vaughan Williams
St. Mathew’s Passion
Knoxville Summer of 1915
Pathetique Sonata
Symphony No. 6
Symphony No. 9
Overture to Carmen
Academic Festival Overture
Symphony No. 4
Agnus Dei from War Requiem
Old American Songs
Symphony No. 8
Enigma Variations
Panis Angelicus
Piano Concerto in a minor
Water Music
Water Music
Symphony No. 104
Variation on America
Totentanz
Elijah
Overture to Midsummer Night’s
Symphony No. 41
Nessun Dorma from Turandot
O Mio Babbino Caro from Gianni Schicchi
Symphony No. 3
Symphony No. 5
Symphony No. 8
Die Moldau
Circus Polka
Nutcracker Suite
English Folk Song Suite
DVD/Videos:
Charlie Brown/Warner Bros.
Fantasia
Fantasia 2000
Fiddler on the Roof
Finian’s Rainbow
Music from the Inside Out
Oliver
The Music Man
Phantom of the Opera
The Sound of Music
Those Amazing Musical Instruments
West Side Story
Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
Websites
http://makingmusicfun.net/
http://www.opusmusicworksheets.com/
http://learnmusictheory.net/
UPPER SCHOOL STRINGS AND ADVANCED ORCHESTRA
Books
Benward, Bruce. Music in Theory and Practice. Third edition. Vol. 1. Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown
Publishers, 1985. ISBN: 0697036219
Berkowitz, Sol, Gabriel Fontrier, amd Leo Kraft. A New Approach to Sight Singing. Fourth Edition. New York:
W.W. Norton & Company,1997. ISBN: 039395465X
Downes, Edward. Guide to Symphonic Music. New York: Walker Publishing Co., Inc., 1981. ISBN:
0802771777
Duckworth, William. A Creative Approach to Music Fundamentals. Seventh edition. Belmont, CA:
Wadsworth Thomson Learning, 2001. ISBN: 0534517684
Kostka, Stefan, and Dorothy Payne. Tonal Harmony: With An Introduction To Twentieth-Century Music. 6th
edition. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2008. ISBN: 9780073401355
Kostka, Stefan, and Dorothy Payne. Tonal Harmony: With An Introduction To Twentieth-Century Music
(Workbook/CD), 6th ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2008. 9780073327150
Starer, Robert. Rhythmic Training. Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard, 1985. ISBN: 9780881889765
Steinberg, Michael. The Symphony: A Listening Guide. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN:
0195126653
DVDs/Videos
Fiddler on the Roof
Finian’s Rainbow
The Magic Flute
Music from the Inside Out
Music from a Painted Cave
Oliver
Phantom of the Opera
The Sound of Music
West Side Story
Those Amazing Musical Instruments
Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
Other music related documentaries
In-Class Listening
1. Mille Regretz, Josquin Des Prez Renaissance
2. Cello Suite No. 1, Johann Sebastian Bach, Baroque
3. The Creation, Franz Joseph Haydn, Classical
4. Johannes Brahms German Requiem Romantic
5. Capriccio espangnol, Nikoli Rimsky-Korsakov, Romantic
6. Finlandia, Jean Sibelius, Romantic
7. Night on Bald Mountain, Modest Mussorgsky, Romantic
8. Symphony No. 8, Gustav Mahler, Romantic
9. Nocturnes, Claude Debussy, Impressionism
10. And God Created Whales, Alan Hovhaness, 20th Century
11. Ionisation, Edgard Varese, 20th Century
12. Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celeste, Bela Bartok, 20th Century
13. O Magnum Mysterium, Tomas Luis de Victoria, Renaissance
14. Appasionata, Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata Romantic
15. Erlkonig, Franz Schubert, Romantic
16. Les Preludes, Franz Liszt, Romantic
17. Symphony No. 3, Felix Mendelssohn, Romantic
18. Till Eulenspiegal, Richard Strauss, Romantic
19. Rapsodie espangnol, Maurice Ravel, Impressionism
20. Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, Ralph Vaughan Williams, 20th Century
21. Mathis der Mahler, Paul Hindemith, 20th Century
22. Pierrot Lunaire, Arnold Schoenberg, 20th Century
23. Shepherd’s Hey, Percy Grainger, 20th Century
24. Variations for Orchestra, Arnold Schoenberg, 20th Century
25. Now is the Month of Maying, Thomas Morley, Renaissance
26. Musical Offering, J.S. Bach, Baroque
27. Horn Concerto No. 4, Wolfgang A. Mozart, Classical
28. Don Juan, Richard Strauss, Romantic
29. Siegfried Idyl, Richard Wagner, Romantic
30. Violin Concerto, Alexander Glazunov, Romantic
31. Mother Goose Suite, Maurice Ravel, Impressionism
32. Danse Espagnole, Manuel de Falla, 20th Century
33. Octandre, Edgard Varese, 20th Century
34. Overture to Candide, Leonard Bernstein, 20th Century
35. Symphonic Metamorphosis, Paul Hindemith, 20th Century
36. Symphony No. 4, Carl Nielsen, 20th Century
Physical Education
MARTIAL ARTS 5 & UPPER SCHOOL MARTIAL ARTS
Title: The Tiger Crane Form of Hung Gar Kung-Fu
Author: Bucksam Kong
Publisher: Ohara Publications Incorporated
ISBN 0-89750-087-3
Title: Comprehensive Applications of Shaolin Chin-Na
Author: Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming
Publisher: YMAA Publication Center
ISBN 0-940871-36-X
Title: Bruce Tegner’s Complete Book of Judo
Author: Bruce Tegner
Publisher: Bantam Books
ISBN 0-55302-819-7
Videos:
WingLam Kung Fu: Lau Gar Kuen, (Five Star Production Co. 1994)
Empty Hand Forms: Hung Gar and Lau Gar Fist (Panther Productions)
PHYSICAL EDUCATION 6 & 7
Films:
Space Jam (PG)
Rookie of the Year (PG)
Air Bud (PG)
The Sandlot (PG)
The Mighty Ducks (PG)
Physical Geography 5
TEXTBOOKS
Inside the Restless Earth by Holt
ISBN: 0030647843
Water on Earth by Holt
ISBN: 0030693179
Weather and Climate by Holt
ISBN: 0030647924
Earth Science Workbook by Prentice Hall
ISBN: 0131259016
National Geographic Student World Atlases
ISBN: 1426317751
VIDEOS and INTERNET RESOURCES
National Geographic: http://education.nationalgeographic.com/video/?page=4
National Geographic Kids:
http://shop.nationalgeographic.com/ngs/category/kids?code=SR20001national%20geographic%20kids&g
clid=CLSe8Iv7-8YCFZCCaQodEyQO5Q
Planet Earth Episodes
Youtube: Bill Nye “Seasons”- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUU7IyfR34o
Google Earth
Khan Academy: https://www.khanacademy.org/
Magic School Bus – Kick Up a Storm & Water Cycle
www.sheppardsoftware/com/Geography.htm (good for learning and quizzing country locations)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3NeMVBcXXU (Water Cycle Rap)
http://www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/ (outline maps)
http://www.education.noaa.gov/ (lots of ocean/weather/climate information and resources)
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/ (real time earthquakes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSvJ9SN8THE (Animaniacs 50 states and capitals song)
geoalliance.asu.edu
Physics
PHYSICS 6, 7 & 8
Books:
Conceptual Physics
The Sciences: An Integrated Approach
Physics v.1
Conceptual Physics Workbook
Paul Hewitt
J. Trefil & R. Hazen
James S. Walker
Paul Hewitt
Websites:
http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/
www.nature.com
www.pbs.org
http://phet.colorado.edu/
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hphys.html
http://www.learner.org/resources/
http://www.physics.org
http://ed.ted.com/lessons?category=science-technology
https://www.ted.com/talks
Additional Resources:
Scientific Method: http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_scientific_method.shtml
Scientific Method:
http://chemreview.pbworks.com/w/page/15669614/scientific%20method %20and%20significant%20figures
Metric Prefixes: http://www.radioing.com/eengineer/metric.html
Bill Nye Newton’s 3rd: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRKmJgIokxg
What is Energy?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_5oYuDY2qM
Rate of falling bodies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYz_K3mwq6A&playnext
=1&list=PL86E3B01F2912EC2C
Galileo “falling Bodies”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kv-U5tjNCY
Physics of Waves: http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?title=Physics_ of_Waves&video_id=144605
Water Sphere wave: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaHLwla2WiI&feature=
player_embedded&noredirect=1
EM Waves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZZ4wKYtVl8
Light Waves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ6XUk7QLbU
EM Spectrum: http://science.hq.nasa.gov/kids/imagers/ems/
Longitudinal Waves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLAB-d8VnZ8
Longitudinal Slinky: http://www.teachersdomain.org/asset/psu10phy_vid_longwaves/
Transverse Waves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka_NNaBT4s0
Transverse Slinky: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHcse1jJAto
Transverse Bungee: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g49mahYeNgc
Standing Wave Slinky: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BN5-JSsu_4
Standing Wave String: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S7-PDF6Vzc
Standing Wave Fire: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjRXH7m78go
Anechoic Chamber: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa_1Galj3nI
Tacoma Narrows: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-zczJXSxnw
Water Goblet Resonance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5Uy7MhFiWA &feature=player_embedded
Breaking Glass: http://video.mit.edu/watch/breaking-glass-with-sound-3947/
Mosquito Ringer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrewnzQYrPI
Sound Waves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iIE1Rm__-E
PH Speed of Sound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7RbHBK58h8
PH Resonance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPy3x3E4yPk
PH Doppler Effect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3MkZjlacaI
Doppler Effect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpylHlamu_U
Train: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq-QP_95U-0
Dr. Quantum: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc
Power Lines: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGoaXZwFlJ4
Making Magnets: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noGGcyPHtdI
Earth’s B: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtDAOxaJ4Ms
Nuclear Power: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJfIbBDR3e8
Geothermal Energy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjpp2MQffnw
Wind Turbines: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsZITSeQFR0
Hydroelectric Energy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEL7yc8R42k
Solar Panels: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27KZ0ng6VO4
The Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey FOX/National Geographic 2014 (Video)
http://www.engineering.com/
http://www.efunda.com/home.cfm
http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/
http://www.howstuffworks.com/
http://www.eng-tips.com/
http://www.discoverengineering.org/
http://www.fun-engineering.net/
http://www.manufacturingiscool.com/
http://www.futuresinengineering.com/
http://www.engineeryourlife.org/
http://www.tryengineering.org/
http://www.egfi-k12.org/
http://thecivilengineer.org/
http://thestructuralengineer.info/
http://www.engr.usask.ca/currentstudents/classes.php
http://engineering.stanford.edu/announcement/stanford-announces-16-online-courses-fall-quarter
http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/
HONORS PHYSICS (AP PHYSICS 1) & AP PHYSICS 2
Primary Textbook:
Physics: Principles with Applications, 6th ed. by Douglas Giancoli
ISBN: 978-0130606204
Books:
Conceptual Physics
Paul Hewitt
The Science: An Integrated Approach J. Trefil & R. Hazen
Physics v.1
Conceptual Physics Workbook
College Physics
5 Steps to a 5
Barron’s AP Physics 1 & 2
Cracking the AP Physics 1 Exam
James S. Walker
Paul Hewitt
Etkina, Gentile, Van Heuvelen
McGraw Hill
Wolf and Rideout
Princeton Review
Websites:
http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/
http://phet.colorado.edu/
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hphys.html
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com
Additional Resources:
Select science videos on YouTube
NASA Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/NASAtelevision
MinutePhysics https://www.youtube.com/user/minutephysics
The Science Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/ScienceChannel
SciShow https://www.youtube.com/user/scishow
ASAP Science Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/AsapSCIENCE
The Discovery Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/DiscoveryNetworks
NOVA PBS Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/NOVAonline
Public Speaking & Communication
Reading Materials:
Hegarty, Edward J. 1951. How to write a speech. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company.
Mosher, Joseph A. 1920. Complete Course in Public Speaking. New York: The MacMillan Company. Soper,
Paul L. 1963. Basic public speaking. Third ed. New York: Oxford University Press.
Walters, Lilly. 1993. Secrets of successful speakers. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Carnegie, Dale. 1938. Public speaking and influencing men in business. New York: Association Press. Flacks,
Niki, and Robert W. Rasberry. 1982. Power talk: How to use theater techniques to win your audience. New
York: The Free Press.
Humes, James C. 2002. Speak like churchill, stand like lincoln: 21 powerful secrets of history's greatest
speakers. Roseville, California: Prima Publishing.
Larson, Orvin. 1971. When it's your turn to speak. New York: Harper & Row.
Lee, Josh. 1947. How to hold an audience without a rope. Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company.
McCarthy, Patsy, and Caroline Hatcher. 2002. Presentation skills: The essential guide for students.
Video Resources
Various educational clips and images from online services such as Google, PBS, YouTube, and Vimeo, etc.
Visual Arts
VISUAL ARTS 5
These materials are referenced by the instructor and incorporated into classroom content.
Art History, Volume 1, Marilyn Stokstad, ISBN: 9780131455283
Art History, Volume 2, Marilyn Stokstad, ISBN: 9780131455290
The Annotated Mona Lisa, Carol Strickland, ISBN: 9780740768729
How to Talk to Children about Art, Francoise Barbe-Gall, ISBN: 155652580X
How to Talk to Children about Modern Art, Francoise Barbe-Gall, ISBN: 9780711232891
How to Talk to Children about World Art, Isabelle Glorieux-Desouche, ISBN: 9780711230910
How to Understand a Painting, Decoding Symbols in Art, Francoise Barbe-Gall, ISBN: 9780711232136
30,000 Years of Art, Editors of Phaidon, ISBN: 9780714847894
Gardner’s Art Through the Ages: A Global History, 13th Edition, ISBN:978049509077
The Visual Experience, Jack Hobbs, Richard A. Salome, Ken Vieth, ISBN: 0871926407
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, Betty Edwards, ISBN: 0874775132
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook, Betty Edwards, ISBN: 1585421952
Drawing Basics, Jacklym St. Aubyn, Wadsworth Thomson Learning. 1998, ISBN: 9780495006282
Drawing Space, Form and Expression, Wayne Enstice, Melody Peters, 3rd Ed., ISBN: 0130981133
The Art of Responsive Drawing, Nathan Goldstein, ISBN: 0130482161
Art Fundamentals: Theory and Practice by Ocvirk, Stinson, Wigg and Bone, ISBN: 9780072862331
Beginner’s Guide to Drawing & Painting, Mark & Mary Willenbrink, ISBN: 9781600619731
John Updike: Just Looking: Essays on Art, ISBN: 9788878465774
The Artist’s Handbook, Ray Smith, ISBN: 0394555856
Design Language, Tim McCreight, ISBN: 0961598468
The Art Book, Editors of Phaidon Press, ISBN: 0714836257
The 20th Century Art Book, Editors of Phaidon Press, ISBN: 0714838500
Drawing the Line: A Portrait of Keith Haring (DVD), ISBN: 0769777783
Elements and Principles of Design, Gerald Brommer, (DVD) ISBN: 9781562903176
Launching the Imagination, Core Concepts in Art (DVD)
Art Fundamentals: Theory and Practice, Core Concepts in Art (DVD)
Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time, 2001 (DVD) ISBN: 076706609X Cave of Forgotten
Dreams, Werner Herzog, 2011 (DVD)
Incredible Art Department, www.incredibleart.org
The Google Art Project, Google, www.googleartproject.com
Selected CBS Sunday Morning Programs & YouTube Clips that are Art related
ART HISTORY AND PRACTICE: VISUAL ARTS 6
How to Talk to Children about Modern Art, Francoise Barbe-Gall, ISBN: 978-0-7002-3289-1
How to Talk to Children about World Art, Francoise Barbe-Gall, ISBN: 978-0-7110-3091-1
How to Understand a Painting, Decoding symbols in art, Francoise Barbe-Gall. ISBN13:9780711232136
The Artist’s Handbook, Ray Smith, ISBN: 0394555856
The Visual Experience, Jack Hobbs, Richard A. Salome, Ken Vieth, ISBN: 0-87192-640-7
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook, Betty Edwards, ISBN: 1-58542-195-2
Drawing Basics, Jacklym St. Aubyn, Wadsworth Thomson Learning. 1998Drawing Space, Form and
Expression, Wayne Enstice, Melody Peters, 3rd Ed
The Art of Responsive Drawing, Nathan Goldstein, ISBN: 0-13-048216-1
Art Fundamentals: Theory and Practice by Ocvirk, Stinson, Wigg and Bone, ISBN-13-978-0-07-286233-1
Understanding Art, Lois Fichner-Rathus, ISBN 0-495-00692-0
Incredible Art Department, www.incredibleart.org
The Google Art Project, Google, www.googleartproject.com
Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy, ISBN 0-7670-6609-x
Chuck Close, DVD, ISBN 1-4229-8769-8
Drawing the Line: A Portrait of Keith Haring DVD, ISBN 0-7697-7778-3
Elements and Principles of Design, Gerald Brommer, DVD, ISBN 978-1-56290-317-6
Launching the Imagination, Core Concepts in Art DVD
Art Fundamentals: Theory and Practice, Core Concepts in Art DVD
CBS Sunday Morning Art Clips
Mattise and Picasso DVD
PBS: Art 21 DVD
Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking, David Bayles and Ted Orland, 2001,
USBN:-13:978-0-96145473-9
Visual Arts, YouTube Clips
Artist to Artist, Inspiration and Advice From Artist Past and Present, Complied by Clint Brown, ISBN 0-94309704-5
The Annotated Mona Lisa, Carol Strickland, PH.D., ISBN 13: 978-0-8362-8005-0
The Art Teacher’s Book of List, Helen Hume, ISBN13 9780470482087, ISBN10 0470482087
Gardner's Art through the Ages: A Global History 13th Edition, ISBN-13: 978-0495093077
John Updike: Just Looking: Essays on Art, ISBN-13: 978-0878465774
The Agony and Ecstasy DVD (Michelangelo painting the Sistine Chapel), ASIN: B0006GANX2
Mary Cassatt: American Impressionist, DVD, ASIN: 1-894449-49-5
Monet: Light and Shadow, DVD, ASIN 1-894449-61-4
Degas and the Dancer, DVD, ASIN: 1894449479
Lust for Life, DVD
Goya: Awakened in a Dream, DVD, ASIN: 1-894449-62-2
How Art Made the World, DVD, ASIN: I-4198-2104-0
Cave of Forgotten Dreams, DVD, ASIN: 0788614150
VISUAL ARTS 7 (2D & 3D)
How to Talk to Children about Modern Art, Francoise Barbe-Gall, ISBN: 978-0-7002-3289-1
How to Talk to Children about World Art, Francoise Barbe-Gall, ISBN: 978-0-7110-3091-1
How to Understand a Painting, Decoding symbols in art, Francoise Barbe-Gall. ISBN13:9780711232136
The Artist’s Handbook, Ray Smith, ISBN: 0394555856
The Visual Experience, Jack Hobbs, Richard A. Salome, Ken Vieth, ISBN: 0-87192-640-7
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook, Betty Edwards, ISBN: 1-58542-195-2
Drawing Basics, Jacklym St. Aubyn, Wadsworth Thomson Learning. 1998
Drawing Space, Form and Expression, Wayne Enstice, Melody Peters, 3rd Ed.
The Art of Responsive Drawing, Nathan Goldstein, ISBN: 0-13-048216-1
Art Fundamentals: Theory and Practice by Ocvirk, Stinson, Wigg and Bone, ISBN-13-978-0-07-286233-1
Understanding Art, Lois Fichner-Rathus, ISBN 0-495-00692-0
IncredibleArt Department, www.incredibleart.org
The Google Art Project, Google, www.googleartproject.com
Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy, ISBN 0-7670-6609-x
Chuck Close, DVD, ISBN 1-4229-8769-8
Drawing the Line: A Portrait of Keith Haring DVD, ISBN 0-7697-7778-3
Elements and Principles of Design, Gerald Brommer, DVD, ISBN 978-1-56290-317-6
Launching the Imagination, Core Concepts in Art DVD
Art Fundamentals: Theory and Practice, Core Concepts in Art DVD
CBS Sunday Morning Art Clips
Mattise and Picasso DVD
PBS: Art 21 DVD
Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking, David Bayles and Ted Orland, 2001,
USBN:-13:978-0-96145473-9
Visual Arts, YouTube Clips
Artist to Artist, Inspiration and Advice From Artist Past and Present, Complied by Clint Brown, ISBN 0-94309704-5
The Annotated Mona Lisa, Carol Strickland, PH.D., ISBN 13: 978-0-8362-8005-0
The Art Teacher’s Book of List, Helen Hume, ISBN13 9780470482087, ISBN10 0470482087
ART STUDIO 2D (GRADES 8-12)
How to Talk to Children about Modern Art, Francoise Barbe-Gall, ISBN: 978-0-7002-3289-1
How to Talk to Children about World Art, Francoise Barbe-Gall, ISBN: 978-0-7110-3091-1
How to Understand a Painting, Decoding symbols in art, Francoise Barbe-Gall. ISBN13:9780711232136
The Artist’s Handbook, Ray Smith, ISBN: 0394555856
The Visual Experience, Jack Hobbs, Richard A. Salome, Ken Vieth, ISBN: 0-87192-640-7
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook, Betty Edwards, ISBN: 1-58542-195-2
Drawing Basics, Jacklym St. Aubyn, Wadsworth Thomson Learning. 1998
Drawing Space, Form and Expression, Wayne Enstice, Melody Peters, 3rd Ed.
The Art of Responsive Drawing, Nathan Goldstein, ISBN: 0-13-048216-1
Art Fundamentals: Theory and Practice by Ocvirk, Stinson, Wigg and Bone, ISBN-13-978-0-07-286233-1
Understanding Art, Lois Fichner-Rathus, ISBN 0-495-00692-0
IncredibleArt Department, www.incredibleart.org
The Google Art Project, Google, www.googleartproject.com
Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy, ISBN 0-7670-6609-x
Chuck Close, DVD, ISBN 1-4229-8769-8
Drawing the Line: A Portrait of Keith Haring DVD, ISBN 0-7697-7778-3
Elements and Principles of Design, Gerald Brommer, DVD, ISBN 978-1-56290-317-6
Launching the Imagination, Core Concepts in Art DVD
Art Fundamentals: Theory and Practice, Core Concepts in Art DVD
CBS Sunday Morning Art Clips
Mattise and Picasso DVD
PBS: Art 21 DVD
Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking, David Bayles and Ted Orland, 2001,
USBN:-13:978-0-96145473-9
Visual Arts, YouTube Clips
Artist to Artist, Inspiration and Advice From Artist Past and Present, Complied by Clint Brown, ISBN 0-94309704-5
The Annotated Mona Lisa, Carol Strickland, PH.D., ISBN 13: 978-0-8362-8005-0
The Art Teacher’s Book of List, Helen Hume, ISBN13 9780470482087, ISBN10 0470482087
John Updike: Just Looking: Essays on Art, ISBN-13: 978-0878465774
AP 2D ART/DRAWING PORTFOLIO
How to Talk to Children about Modern Art, Francoise Barbe-Gall, ISBN: 978-0-7002-3289-1
How to Talk to Children about World Art, Francoise Barbe-Gall, ISBN: 978-0-7110-3091-1
How to Understand a Painting, Decoding symbols in art, Francoise Barbe-Gall. ISBN13:9780711232136
The Artist’s Handbook, Ray Smith, ISBN: 0394555856
The Visual Experience, Jack Hobbs, Richard A. Salome, Ken Vieth, ISBN: 0-87192-640-7
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook, Betty Edwards, ISBN: 1-58542-195-2
Drawing Basics, Jacklym St. Aubyn, Wadsworth Thomson Learning. 1998
Drawing Space, Form and Expression, Wayne Enstice, Melody Peters, 3rd Ed.
The Art of Responsive Drawing, Nathan Goldstein, ISBN: 0-13-048216-1
Art Fundamentals: Theory and Practice by Ocvirk, Stinson, Wigg and Bone, ISBN-13-978-0-07-286233-1
Understanding Art, Lois Fichner-Rathus, ISBN 0-495-00692-0
IncredibleArt Department, www.incredibleart.org
The Google Art Project, Google, www.googleartproject.com
Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy, ISBN 0-7670-6609-x
Chuck Close, DVD, ISBN 1-4229-8769-8
Drawing the Line: A Portrait of Keith Haring DVD, ISBN 0-7697-7778-3
Elements and Principles of Design, Gerald Brommer, DVD, ISBN 978-1-56290-317-6
Launching the Imagination, Core Concepts in Art DVD
Art Fundamentals: Theory and Practice, Core Concepts in Art DVD
CBS Sunday Morning Art Clips
Mattise and Picasso DVD
PBS: Art 21 DVD
Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking, David Bayles and Ted Orland, 2001,
USBN:-13:978-0-96145473-9
Visual Arts, YouTube Clips
Artist to Artist, Inspiration and Advice From Artist Past and Present, Complied by Clint Brown, ISBN 0-94309704-5
The Annotated Mona Lisa, Carol Strickland, PH.D., ISBN 13: 978-0-8362-8005-0
The Art Teacher’s Book of List, Helen Hume, ISBN13 9780470482087, ISBN10 0470482087
Gardner's Art through the Ages: A Global History 13th Edition, ISBN-13: 978-0495093077
John Updike: Just Looking: Essays on Art, ISBN-13: 978-0878465774
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
The Photographer’s Eye, Michael Freeman, ISBN – 13: 978-0-240-80934-2
Digital Photography: Barbra London and Jim Stone, ISBN:-13:978-0205207862
Gardner’s Art Through the Ages: A Global History, 13th Edition, ISBN-13:978-049509077The
Annotated Mona Lisa, Carol Strickland, ISBN: 0836280059 & 9780740768729The Visual Experience, Jack
Hobbs, Richard A. Salome, Ken Vieth, ISBN: 0-87192-640-7
Art Fundamentals: Theory and Practice by Otto Ocvirk, Robert Stinson, Phillip Wigg and Robert Bon
IncredibleArt Department, www.incredibleart.org
The Google Art Project, Google, www.googleartproject.com
Just Looking: Essays on Art, John Updike, ISBN, 0-87846-577-4
Launching the Imagination, Mary Stewart, ISBN13-978-0-07-287873-8
Elements and Principles of Design, Gerald Brommer, DVD, ISBN 978-1-56290-317-6
Launching the Imagination, Core Concepts in Art DVD
Art Fundamentals: Theory and Practice, Core Concepts in Art DVD
CBS Sunday Morning Art Clips
DigitalPhotography School, digital-photography-school.com
Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman, DVD, ISBN, 1-4229-8138-x
Richard Avedon DVD
Annie Leibovitz DVD
American Photography DVD
Ansel Adams DVD
PBS: Art 21
Youtube: The Art of Photography
Finding Vivian Maier Documentary