AP Language and Composition Panel Books: Name:
Go online and read the reviews and synopsis of the following books and rank your first, second and third choices beside each title. There will be approximately 3 to 4 people reading the same book in each class. Once I have assigned you a book, we will discuss the activity that your group will be doing as you read. I will try to assign you the first choice but I make no promises.
1. The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead (Callahan)
2. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
(Levitt and Dubner)
3. In Cold Blood (Capote)
4. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (Ehrenreich)
5. Branded: The Buying and Selling of American Teenagers (Quart)
6. Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids (Robbins)
7. Everything Bad is Good for You (Johnson)
8. Amusing ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Postman)
9. The Glass Castle (Walls)
10. Into Thin Air (Krakauer)
11. A parallel to #4 Scratch Beginnings (Adam Shepherd)
12. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Mary Roach)
You may suggest another book for the outside reading but it must be grade level appropriate, non-fiction, must present an argument of some sort and more than one person must agree to read it together and get a copy of the book from the library or at your own expense.
Possibilities: Into the Wild, Outliers, Where Men Win Glory (Krakauer’s account of Pat Tillman’s Odyssey)