Beard’s Reading List, 2017-2018
English 1301/1302 (Dual Credit)
Summer Reading: The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
Mistakes Were Made, But Not By Me, Caroll Tarvis and Elliot Aronson
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley ISBN 0-451-52771-2 (Signet Classics)
The Stranger, Albert Camus ISBN 978-0-679-72020-1 (Trans. Matthew Ward) ***It’s imperative that you have the correct translation.
Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
***There will also be an opportunity to choose a text from a list for personal reading. More information will be forthcoming.
***Selected readings from the course textbook(Everything’s An Argument) and teacher-selected essays, short stories, etc.
--Students will write two research papers over the course of the year. Additional research projects will also be required.
--Students are responsible for balancing the reading/writing requirements of this course. The course is rigorous and requires time
management and personal responsibility. All reading and writing is done outside of class time.
--Students should expect to write 2-3 essays every grading period, and at least one summative assessment will be a timed
writing which may include multiple prompts.
The mode of writing is centered around the argument. In the first semester we evaluate the use of rhetoric; in the second semester we
develop and polish our own use of rhetoric.
--While this course is not driven by literature in the traditional sense, we will use the pieces selected to drive the philosophical
argument of each unit.
--This class is structured around writing workshops and class discussion. The expectation is that all students “join the conversation.”
Students who fail to do so will not benefit from the same rewarding experience as students who are actively involved.
--This class is not less rigorous than AP; it simply offers a different focus. You should expect to write MORE in this class.
Beard’s Reading List, 2017-2018
English 1301/1302 (Dual Credit)
Summer Reading: The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
Mistakes Were Made, But Not By Me, Caroll Tarvis and Elliot Aronson
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley ISBN 0-451-52771-2 (Signet Classics)
The Stranger, Albert Camus ISBN 978-0-679-72020-1 (Translator Matthew Ward)
Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
***There will also be an opportunity to choose a text from a list for personal reading. More information will be forthcoming.
***Selected readings from the course textbook(Everything’s An Argument) and teacher-selected essays, short stories, etc.
--Students will write two research papers over the course of the year. Additional research projects will also be required.
--Students are responsible for balancing the reading/writing requirements of this course. The course is rigorous and requires time
management and personal responsibility. All reading and writing is done outside of class time.
--Students should expect to write 3 essays every grading period, and at least one summative assessment will be a timed
writing which may include multiple prompts.
The mode of writing is centered around the argument. In the first semester we evaluate the use of rhetoric; in the second semester we
develop and polish our own use of rhetoric.
--While this course is not driven by literature in the traditional sense, we will use the pieces selected to drive the philosophical
argument of each unit.
--This class is structured around writing workshops and class discussion. The expectation is that all students “join the conversation.”
Students who fail to do so will not benefit from the same rewarding experience as students who are actively involved.
--This class is not less rigorous than AP; it simply offers a different focus. You should expect to write MORE in this class.