Supplemental+Reading+Ideas

AP Language Course Plan

"What is Literature?" by Terry Eagleton "Culture and Anarchy" by Matthew Arnold

Not really relevant but maybe useful in AP Lit. "From Radical Jane and the Other Emma" by Edward Ahearn


 * List of Texts for Independent Reading:** (Also see the chapter in my book)

Choose anything in the library that meets these qualifications:
 * literary merit (text won award or high praise in reviews) or author is on the AP authors list
 * should be nonfiction.**Options**: straight nonfiction (analytical or expository work), memoir (no celebrity autobiographies), creative nonfiction, political or social theory or criticism, histories, etc.
 * journalism: choose a columnist and read two-three of his/her columns per week (in newspaper or online)
 * broader perspective: go outside the United States

Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift (satire) The Souls of Black Folks, W.E.B.DuBois