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1 | AP Lang - Essay Readings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
2 | Author Name | Essay Title | URL/LINK | Book Location | |||||||||||||||||||||
3 | intro activity | Langston Hughes | Salvation (see both links) | https://www.chino.k12.ca.us/cms/lib8/CA01902308/Centricity/Domain/2273/Salvation.Annotated.pdf | http://www.centerforfiction.org/forwriters/the-model-short-story/quotsalvationquot-by-langston-hughes/ | see 50 essays AP English pg48 | Prentice Hall 92 | ||||||||||||||||||
4 | everyone reads | Sojourner Truth | Ain't I a Woman? | https://www.bhamcityschools.org/cms/lib/AL01001646/Centricity/Domain/5481/English%20Language%20Arts%20Grade%2010%20Curriculum%20Guide/Week%201-%20English%2010%20Resource.pdf | 50 essays pg423 | ||||||||||||||||||||
5 | MISC Essay/Speeches Lists | https://tetw.org/Greats | |||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | 10 best speeches in American History | https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/looking-at-10-great-speeches-in-american-history | |||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | 40 best essays of all time | https://rafalreyzer.com/40-best-essays-of-all-time/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | Top 10 Essays Since 1950 | https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/54337-the-top-10-essays-since-1950.html | |||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | American Rhetoric Top 100 (political) speeches | https://www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html | |||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | 35 greatest speeches in history | https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/the-35-greatest-speeches-in-history/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | Historical Speeches/Docs & The Best Known Essays& The Greeks/Classics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | Dalai Lama | Nobel Prize speech | https://www.dalailama.com/messages/acceptance-speeches/nobel-peace-prize/nobel-peace-prize-nobel-lecture | Essay connection 598 | |||||||||||||||||||||
13 | Thomas Jefferson | Declaration of Independence | http://americainclass.org/sources/makingrevolution/rebellion/text8/decindep.pdf | ||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Winston Churchill | We shall fight on the beaches (speech) | http://www.pieropolidoro.it/semiotica/churchill040640.pdf | ||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | Jonathan Swift | A Modest Proposal | http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/30827_modestproposal.pdf | ||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | EB White | Once More to the Lake | http://fd.valenciacollege.edu/file/jcarpen1/Week_3_EBWhiteLakeEssay.pdf | essay connection 122 | |||||||||||||||||||||
17 | George Orwell | Shooting an Elephant | http://jfs.monroe.k12.al.us/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=9704638 | 50 essays pg 276 | |||||||||||||||||||||
18 | George Orwell | A Hanging | https://piper.asu.edu/sites/default/files/orwell_hanging.pdf | ||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | Maung Htin Aung | George Orwell and Burman | https://drive.google.com/file/d/15T_H0ahdJLr_t2XcMLs4MwkXPs-uVOHY/view?usp=sharing | ||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Self Reliance | https://archive.vcu.edu/english/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/emerson/essays/selfreliance.html | ||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | Henry David Thoreau | Where I Lived, and What I Lived For | http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/webpub/english/bedguide8e/Public%20Domain%20Readings/Thoreau%20Where%20I%20Lived%20and%20What%20I%20Lived%20For.pdf | 50 essays pg 416 | |||||||||||||||||||||
22 | William Faulkner | Nobel Prize speech | https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1949/faulkner/speech/ | writing america 773 | |||||||||||||||||||||
23 | Robert Kennedy | Speech on the death of MLK | http://www.garrard.k12.ky.us/userfiles/107/Classes/9625/userfiles/107/my%20files/robert%20kennedy%20speech%20about%20mlk%20assassination.pdf?id=548750 | writing america 825 | |||||||||||||||||||||
24 | Plato | Allegory of the Cave (has many translations) | https://yale.learningu.org/download/ca778ca3-7e93-4fa6-a03f-471e6f15028f/H2664_Allegory%20of%20the%20Cave%20.pdf | 50 essays pg284 | |||||||||||||||||||||
25 | African-American Voices | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
26 | https://drive.google.com/file/d/11r7PNwkMOxhkoN_KlJddDQQDpt5094F_/view?usp=sharing | MLK Jr. | Letter from Birmingham Jail | https://www.csuchico.edu/iege/_assets/documents/susi-letter-from-birmingham-jail.pdf | knowing & writing pg111 & patterns for college 566 | ||||||||||||||||||||
27 | MLK Jr. | I Have a Dream speech | https://www.btboces.org/Downloads/I%20Have%20a%20Dream%20by%20Martin%20Luther%20King%20Jr.pdf | suggestion - read Langston Hughes' Harlem poem | the critical eye 385 | ||||||||||||||||||||
28 | James Baldwin | Notes of a Native Son | https://www.whatsoproudlywehail.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Baldwin_Notes-of-a-Native-Son.pdf | Knowing & Writing 80 | |||||||||||||||||||||
29 | James Baldwin | Stranger in the Village | https://www.janvaneyck.nl/site/assets/files/2312/baldwin.pdf | NOTE: can watch documentary "I Am Not Your Negro" on Baldwin | Seagull Reader 19 | ||||||||||||||||||||
30 | James Baldwin | A Talk to Teachers | https://serendipstudio.org/oneworld/system/files/Baldwin%2C%20J.%2C%20A%20Talk%20to%20Teachers%2C%20pp.%20678-686.pdf | Language of Composition 197 | |||||||||||||||||||||
31 | Alice Walker | In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens | https://www.dentonisd.org/cms/lib/TX21000245/Centricity/Domain/1171/Mothers%20Gardens%20Text.pdf | 50 essays pg425 | |||||||||||||||||||||
32 | Maya Angelou | Graduation | https://eng101wlac.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/graduation.pdf | Seagull Reader 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||
33 | Nikki Giovanni | Campus Racism 101 | http://spa.walsingham.org/ClassDocuments/25885/Campus%20Racism%20101.pdf | river reader 127 | |||||||||||||||||||||
34 | Frederick Douglass | What to the Slave is the 4th of July | http://masshumanities.org/files/programs/douglass/speech_abridged_med.pdf | ||||||||||||||||||||||
35 | Alex Haley | My Furthest Back Person - The African | https://4.files.edl.io/50d1/10/15/18/124929-d070de90-1481-4ae7-8df3-6f79cfc07f09.pdf | norton sampler pg 42 | |||||||||||||||||||||
36 | Malcolm X | A Homemade Education / Learning to Read | http://chawkinsteaching.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/9/7/12977279/malcolm_x_homemade_education.pdf | 50 essays pg245 | |||||||||||||||||||||
37 | Zora Neale Hurston | How It Feels to Be Colored Me | http://www.casa-arts.org/cms/lib/PA01925203/Centricity/Domain/50/Hurston%20How%20it%20Feels%20to%20Be%20Colored%20Me.pdf | 50 essays pg 158 | |||||||||||||||||||||
38 | Coretta Scott King | The Death Penalty is a Step Back | https://mrjanota.weebly.com/uploads/4/6/7/4/46743291/coretta_scott_king_speech.pdf | mcgraw hill reader 88 | |||||||||||||||||||||
39 | Booker T Washington (and others) | The Atlanta Exposition Address | https://p1cdn4static.sharpschool.com/UserFiles/Servers/Server_10640642/File/bugge/Chapter%2017/washingtonvsdubois.PDF | language of composition 417 | |||||||||||||||||||||
40 | Brent Staples | Just Walk on By (a black man's power to alter public space) | http://myweb.scu.edu.tw/~jmklassen/scu100b/rdngconv/Staples.pdf | dolphin reader 323 & prentice hall 536 | |||||||||||||||||||||
41 | Shelby Steele | On Being Black and Middle Class | https://browne150.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/on-being-black-and-middle-class.pdf | 50 essay pg366 | |||||||||||||||||||||
42 | Ta Nehisi Coates | (pick one) | https://medium.com/s/best-of-ta-nehisi-coates | or the one on Kanye perhaps: | https://www.theatlantic.com/author/ta-nehisi-coates/ | ||||||||||||||||||||
43 | Asian (& Indian) Voices | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
44 | Amy Tan | Mother Tongue | http://www.umsl.edu/~alexanderjm/Mother%20Tongue%20by%20Tan.pdf | 50 essays pg402 | |||||||||||||||||||||
45 | Amy Chua | Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior | http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/Chinese_mothers.pdf | patterns for college writers 410 | |||||||||||||||||||||
46 | Maxine Hong Kingston | No Name Woman | https://ursulastange.com/courses/documents/NoNameWoman.doc | compact reader 374 | |||||||||||||||||||||
47 | Eric Liu | A Chinaman's Chance: Reflections on the American Dream | http://www.drvalverde.com/uploads/1/0/5/3/10538520/chinaman%E2%80%99s_chance_-_reflections_of_the_american_dream_-_jan_18_2018_-_2-49_pm.pdf | 7 min audio: | https://www.npr.org/books/titles/339553334/a-chinamans-chance-one-familys-journey-and-the-chinese-american-dream | river reader 410 | |||||||||||||||||||
48 | Santha Rama Rau | By Any Other Name | https://www.cusd80.com/cms/lib/AZ01001175/Centricity/Domain/2112/Unit_2-136-141.pdf | mcgraw hill reader 128 | |||||||||||||||||||||
49 | Bharati Mukherjee | American Dreamer | https://www.motherjones.com/politics/1997/01/american-dreamer/ | mcgraw hill reader 332 | |||||||||||||||||||||
50 | Bharati Mukherjee | Two Ways to Belong in America | http://kilpatricksl.weebly.com/uploads/8/1/8/2/81826774/two_ways_to_belong_in_america.pdf | 50 essays 272 | |||||||||||||||||||||
51 | Kondo | On Being a Conceptual Anamoly | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Gw7yY23PC0gTWTihPgVN9nonfZSwApac/view?usp=sharing | ||||||||||||||||||||||
52 | Marie Myung-Ok Lee | I Was An Anchor Baby | http://articles.latimes.com/print/2010/sep/08/opinion/la-oe-lee-anchor-baby-20100908 | common threads 392 | |||||||||||||||||||||
53 | Latino/Hispanic Voices | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
54 | Richard Rodriguez | Private Language, Public Language | http://simontechnology.org/ourpages/auto/2013/1/10/56844747/Richard%20Rodriguez%20Private%20and%20Public%20Language.pdf | compact reader 207 | |||||||||||||||||||||
55 | Richard Rodriguez | None of this is Fair | http://heep.unipus.cn/bookdata/9787560053325y.pdf | prentice hall 470 | |||||||||||||||||||||
56 | Gloria Anzaldua | How to Tame a Wild Tongue | https://www.everettsd.org/cms/lib07/WA01920133/Centricity/Domain/965/Anzaldua-Wild-Tongue.pdf | Language of compostion 725 | |||||||||||||||||||||
57 | Marjorie Agosin | Always Living in Spanish | http://havlicek.weebly.com/uploads/6/8/5/2/685209/alwayslivinginspanish-magosin.pdf | Language of composition 735 | |||||||||||||||||||||
58 | Judith Cofer | The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria | https://www.quia.com/files/quia/users/amccann10/Myth_of_a_Latin_Woman | 50 essays pg 71 | |||||||||||||||||||||
59 | Native American Voices | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
60 | Chief Seattle speech to President Pierce | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B04AA4i4sOu8SG1YejdmVFFlZEE/view?usp=sharing | seagull reader pg202 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
61 | (see Language section) | Leslie Marmon Silko | Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective | 50 essay pg346 | |||||||||||||||||||||
62 | N. Scott Momaday | The Way to Rainy Mountain | http://www.b-g.k12.ky.us/userfiles/1049/The%20Way%20to%20Rainy%20Mountain.pdf | 50 essays pg 265 | |||||||||||||||||||||
63 | Gay Voices | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
64 | Andrew Sullivan | What are Homosexuals For? | https://washingtonlee.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/legacy_assets/washingtonlee/392479bd57-What_Are_Homosexuals_For_FULL_TEXT.pdf | 50 essays pg 380 | |||||||||||||||||||||
65 | Susan Sontag | Notes on Camp | https://monoskop.org/images/5/59/Sontag_Susan_1964_Notes_on_Camp.pdf | ||||||||||||||||||||||
66 | Feminist Voices | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
67 | Judy Syfers / Judy Brady | I Want a Wife | https://www.wsfcs.k12.nc.us/cms/lib/NC01001395/Centricity/Domain/10659/I%20Want%20a%20Wife.pdf | compact reader 249 | |||||||||||||||||||||
68 | Alice Munro | Boys and Girls | http://www.giuliotortello.it/shortstories/boys_and_girls.pdf | Dolphin Reader 116 | |||||||||||||||||||||
69 | Natalie Angier | Why Men Don't Last | https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/17/health/why-men-don-t-last-self-destruction-as-a-way-of-life.html | essay connection 299 | |||||||||||||||||||||
70 | Margaret Atwood | The Female Body | https://web.stanford.edu/~jonahw/AOE-SM10/Readings/Atwood-FemaleBody.pdf | prentice hall 414 | |||||||||||||||||||||
71 | Virginia Woolf | The Death of the Moth (not really feminist) | https://www.sanjuan.edu/cms/lib8/CA01902727/Centricity/Domain/3981/Death%20of%20A%20Moth-Virginia%20Woolf%20copy.pdf | 50 essays pg 475 | |||||||||||||||||||||
72 | Roger Ebert | Go Gentle into that Good Night | https://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/go-gentle-into-that-good-night | ||||||||||||||||||||||
73 | Iranian graphic novel | Marjane Satrapi | The Veil (Persepolis) | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vRH6z0cohrEFdSSJz5hPatEIGDn3ugbN/view?usp=sharing | Language of Composition 1067 | ||||||||||||||||||||
74 | Virginia Woolf | Shakespeare's SIster | https://readcomp.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/pdf_woolf.pdf | or | https://www.allaccelerated.org/tucson/wp-content/uploads/file-manager/Jennifer.Wittman/2017/ap-english-language-and-composition/supplementary-reading/Shakespeares.Sister._Woolf.pdf | the critical eye 537 | |||||||||||||||||||
75 | MISC & Single Issue / Social Issues Essays | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
76 | How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading By John Holt | http://mrirwin.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/70869274/Holt,%20John%20-%20How%20Teachers%20Make%20Children%20Hate%20Reading.pdf | |||||||||||||||||||||||
77 | Trial By Fire | https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/09/07/trial-by-fire | |||||||||||||||||||||||
78 | Sarah Vowell | Shooting Dad | http://www.anderson.k12.ky.us/Downloads/Vowell%20-%20Shooting%20Dad.pdf | Bedford Reader 164 | |||||||||||||||||||||
79 | comic | Dave Barry | Lost/Turkeys in the Kitchen | http://msarcand.weebly.com/uploads/2/3/5/7/23579644/turkeys_in_the_kitchen_00001.pdf | https://www.docholley.com/upload/Lost%20in%20the%20Kitchen%20-%20Rhetorical%20Analysis%20Packet.pdf | 50 essay pg 61 | |||||||||||||||||||
80 | comic | Jessica Mitford | Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain | http://eng121.net/online%20textbook/process/Behind%20the%20Formaldehyde%20Curtain.pdf | 50 essays pg255 | ||||||||||||||||||||
81 | Malcolm Gladwell | The Order of Things (about college rankings, etc) | https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/02/14/the-order-of-things | river reader 233 | |||||||||||||||||||||
82 | Mark Twain | Two Views of the River | http://www.gmsdk12.org/Downloads/Twain-2Views2.pdf | river reader 155 | |||||||||||||||||||||
83 | Margaret Laurence | Where the World Began | rowlandelaa30.weebly.com/uploads/3/8/2/7/38279827/where_the_world_began.doc | lexington reader 211 | |||||||||||||||||||||
84 | Vicki Hearne | What's Wrong with Animal Rights | https://researchwrit.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/article-hearne_whats-wrong-with-animal-rights.pdf | ||||||||||||||||||||||
85 | Scott Sanders | The Inheritance of Tools | http://www.stjoe.k12.in.us/ourpages/auto/2013/5/2/47907868/Inheritance%20of%20Tools%20Sanders%20text%20copy.pdf | 50 essays pg 331 | |||||||||||||||||||||
86 | Horace Miner | Body Ritual among the Nacirema | https://www.sfu.ca/~palys/Miner-1956-BodyRitualAmongTheNacirema.pdf | norton sampler 242 | |||||||||||||||||||||
87 | David Foster Wallace | This is Water (Kenyon college commencement speech) | https://fs.blog/2012/04/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
88 | David Foster Wallace | Consider the Lobster | http://www.columbia.edu/~col8/lobsterarticle.pdf | ||||||||||||||||||||||
89 | Judith Viorst | The Truth About Lying | https://teachtheprof.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/viorstthe-truth-about-lying-judith-viorst2-1.pdf | river reader 205 | |||||||||||||||||||||
90 | Wilbert Rideau | Why Prisons Don't Work | http://www.heal-online.org/wilbert.pdf | sundance reader pg 579 | |||||||||||||||||||||
91 | Meg Greenfield | Why Nothing is "Wrong" Anymore | https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1986/07/22/why-nothing-is-wrong-anymore/8ecbcb88-efea-4b95-85b5-b42f503786ed/?utm_term=.055f948c4b96 | sundacne reader pg406 | |||||||||||||||||||||
92 | Paul Rubin | Environmentalism as Religions | http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2010/04/environmentalism-as-religion.html | patterns for college writing 399 (might struggle to see it in URL) | |||||||||||||||||||||
93 | Gail Sheehy | Predictable Crises of Adulthood | https://www.dcs.k12.oh.us/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=4476&dataid=9012&FileName=AP%20-%20Article%20-%20Predictable%20Crisis%20of%20Adulthood.pdf | riverside reader 263 | |||||||||||||||||||||
94 | tech | Jared Lanier | You are Not a Gadget (can stop on pg 17) | https://cmapspublic3.ihmc.us/rid=1MHHS4T68-C8ZML1-6DRW/YouAreNotAGadget-Jaron%20Lanier.pdf | writing america 715 | ||||||||||||||||||||
95 | Carl Sagan | Can We Know the Universe (on a grain of salt) | http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/lehre/pmo/eng/Sagan-KnowTheUniverse.pdf | mcgraw hill reader 572 | |||||||||||||||||||||
96 | Malcolm Gladwell | Why the Revolution will not be Tweeted | https://web.stanford.edu/class/comm1a/readings/gladwell-small-change.pdf | Language of composition 344 | |||||||||||||||||||||
97 | Lars Eighner | On Dumpster Diving | https://1.cdn.edl.io/utv3XeO5mT3Qmj0fLfNsmaJRMChuM3sEwGp6cWsEFl08pYhB.pdf | Language of compostion 421 | |||||||||||||||||||||
98 | Matthew Crawford | The Case for Working with your Hands | https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/magazine/24labor-t.html | Language of compostion 449 | |||||||||||||||||||||
99 | Roberta Israeloff | Don't Know Much About History | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kLrBc7EM8KtN1nVtp_5NL3E3g_7gyG3m/view?usp=sharing | ||||||||||||||||||||||
100 | Charles Krauthammer | In Plain English: Let's Make It Official | https://ralouie.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/annotate1.pdf | Language of compostion 742 |