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Greetings!
Greetings!
Our classes are almost complete with their study of authors and journalists who might show up on the AP Language Exam.
Our classes are almost complete with their study of authors and journalists who might show up on the AP Language Exam.
A list of authors and journalists with their BA papers attached is below:
A list of authors and journalists with their BA papers attached is below:
The "acorn booklet" (aka "Course Description"), produced by The College Board, lists numerous authors to demonstrate the depth and breadth of texts AP students should be reading. Since 2000, my students have been collecting information on some of these authors via author study projects. (Source: http://www.americandreamer.net/bushwb/apweb/apauthrs/apauthrs.html )
Maya Angelou
Walter Jackson Bate
Paula Gunn Allen
Joseph Addison
Roger Angell
Hannah Arendt
Edward Abbey
James Boswell
James Boswell
Gloria Anzaldua
James Agee
Maureen Dowd
Simone de Beauvoir
Wendell Berry
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Thomas Carlyle
Michael Arlen
Margaret Atwood
Elizabeth Drew
William F. Buckley
Jacob Bronowski
Charles Dana
Winston Churchill
Matthew Arnold
Francis Bacon
Nora Ephron
Jean de Crevecoeur
Rachel Carson
Thomas DeQuincy
Vine Deloria, Jr.
Kenneth Clark
James Baldwin
M. F. K. Fisher
W.E.B. DuBois
Charles Darwin
Frederick Douglass
Leon Edel
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
G. K. Chesterton
Frances Fitzgerald
Margaret Fuller
Annie Dilliard
Benjamin Franklin
Richard Ellmann
Arlene Croce
Joan Didion
Janet Flanner (Genet)
John Kenneth Galbraith
Gretel Ehrlich
Lillian Helman
Shelby Foote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ellen Goodman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Loren Eiseley
Helen Keller
John Hope Franklin
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Paul Fussell
David Halberstam
Thomas Hobbes
Stephen Jay Gould
Maxine Hong Kingston
Antonia Fraser
William Hazlitt
Mavis Gallant
Andy Logan
Thomas Jefferson
Evelyn Fox Keller
T.E.Lawrence
Edward Gibbon
bell hooks
Nadine Gordimer
John McPhee
George Kennan
Barry Lopez
John Henry Newman
Richard Homes
Samuel Johnson
Edward Hoagland
H.L. Mencken
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peter Mattiessen
Samuel Pepys
Gerda Lerner
Pauline Kael
Zora Neale Hurston
Jan Morris
Lewis H. Lapham
Margaret Mead
Richard Rodriguez
Thomas Macaulay
Joyce Carol Oates
Jamaica Kincaid
David Remnick
John Locke
John Muir
Richard Wright
Samuel Eliot Morison
Walter Pater
Charles Lamb
Red Smith
Niccolo Machiavelli
David Quammen
Malcolm X
Francis Parkman
John Ruskin
Norman Mailer
Lincoln Steffens
John Stuart Mill
Carl Sagan
Anzia Yezierska
Arnold Rampersad
George Santayana
Nancy Mairs
Paul Theroux
John Milton
Lewis Thomas
Simon Schama
George Bernard Shaw
Mary McCarthy
Calvin Trillin
Thomas More
Jonathan Weiner
Arthur M. Schlesinger
Susan Sontag
N. Scott Momaday
Tom Wolfe
Thomas Paine
Ronald Takaki
Cornel West
Montaigne
Olive Schreiner
George Trevelyan
Oscar Wilde
V.S. Naipaul
Jonathan Swift
Barbara Tuchman
Edmund Wilson
Tillie Olsen
Alexis de Tocqueville
George Orwell
Gore Vidal
Cynthia Ozick
George Will
Ishmael Reed
Garry Wills
Adrienne Rich
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mordecai Richler
Sharman Apt Russell
Scott Russell Sanders
Richard Selzer
Richard Steele
Shelby Steele
Henry David Thoreau
John Updike
Alice Walker
Eudora Welty
E.B. White
Terry Tempest Williams
Virginia Woolf
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