Homework

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Q4 Week 3 (20-24 April)

Wednesday 22 April (11-2) / Thursday 23 April (11-1) -- Please read the "Jumpers" article for class today. We'll focus our discussion on sneaky argumentation.
      **Note: Your source lists are due to me and your secondary advisors by midnight tonight!**

Thursday 23 April (11-2) / Friday 24 April (11-1) -- Today's focus will either be AP prep or research. You'll hear more soon...

Sunday 26 April -- Last blog due! See "Blogging Expectations" for details.

Monday 27 April -- Please read the Emily Yoffe article at the end of your packets, called "The College Rape Correction." For class, write down her main point / argument, and then note one place she brings in an opposing point of view (called "planting a naysayer"). 

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AWESOME NONFICTION BOOKS TO READ!

Imran Ahmad, The Perfect Gentlemen

Karen Armstrong, A History of God

Wendy Beckett, The Story of Painting

HG Bissinger, Friday Night Lights

Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Slum

Timothy Brook, Vermeer’s Hat

Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

Nicholas Carr, The Shallows

Ted Chapin, Everything Was Possible

Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

Donald Clarke, Wishing on the Moon

Leah Hager Cohen, Glass, Paper, Beans

Edward Conlon, Blue Blood

Dennis Covington, Salvation on Sand Mountain

Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

Andrew Delbanco, The Death of Satan

Joan Didion, The White Album OR Slouching Towards Bethlehem

David Ewing Duncan, Calendar

David Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius OR Zeitoun

Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed

Joseph Ellis, American Sphinx

Anne Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Timothy Ferris, The Whole Shebang

Tina Fey, Bossypants

Michael Finkel, True Story

Barbara Freese, Coal

Thatcher Freund, Objects of Desire

Thomas Friedman, Beirut to Jerusalem

Atul Gawande, Complications OR Better OR The Checklist Manifesto

Brendan Gill, Many Masks

Mikal Gilmore, Shot in the Heart

Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point OR Blink OR Outliers

Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You

Yossi Klein Halevi, Like Dreamers: The Story of Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation

Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action

Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit

Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great

Peter Irons, A People’s History of the Supreme Court

Steven Johnson, Emergence

Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

Doris Kearnes Goodwin, No Ordinary Time OR Team of Rivals

Tracey Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains

Gina Kolata, Clone OR Flue

Jonathan Kozol, Savage Inequalities

Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild OR Under the Banner of Heaven

Mark Kurlansky, Cod OR Birdseye

William Langewiesche, American Ground

Eric Larson, The Devil in the White City OR Garden in the Beast

Nicholas Lemann, The Big Test

Michael Lewis, Liar’s Poker

Amanda Lindhout (and Sara Corbett), A House in the Sky

Norman Maclean, Young Men and Fire

Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes OR ‘Tis

John McPhee, Coming Into the Country

Donald Miller, City of the Century

Adam Minter, Junkyard Planet

Susan Orlean, White Oleander

Nathaniel Philbrook, In the Heart of the Sea

Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food OR Ominivore’s Dilemma

Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death OR Building… OR Technopoly

Matt Ridley, Genome

Mary Roach, Stiff

Karl Sabbagh, Skyscraper

Julie Salamon, The Devil’s Candy

Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation

Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Dava Sobel, Galileo’s Daughter

Susan Sontag, On Photography

Barbra Tuchman, The Guns of August

John Walton, Mississippi

Jonathan Weiner, The Beak of the Finch

Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman

Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff