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Summer of 2010 24 August 2010: When Good People Do Evil by Philip Zimbardo 17 August 2010: Telling Tails by Tim O’Brien 10 August 2010: Science Turns Authoritarian by Kenneth Green 03 August 2010: Letting Go by Atul Gawande 27 July 2010: The End of Men by Hana Rosin 20 July 2010: Win or Lose by Anthony Gottlieb 13 July 2010: How Facts Backfire by Joe Keohane 07 July […]

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Additional Summer Reading Opportunities for AP Language

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As the summer goes along, I will post additional options for summer reading this year on the site. If you have questions about titles or would like to suggest other options, please feel free to ask. Additional titles: The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by […]

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Additional Summer Reading Opportunities for AP Language

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June 12, 2010/by dpogreba

Summer of 2010

24 August 2010: When Good People Do Evil by Philip Zimbardo
17 August 2010: Telling Tails by Tim O’Brien
10 August 2010: Science Turns Authoritarian by Kenneth Green
03 August 2010: Letting Go by Atul Gawande
27 July 2010: The End of Men by Hana Rosin
20 July 2010: Win or Lose by Anthony Gottlieb
13 July 2010: How Facts Backfire by Joe Keohane
07 July 2010: Why Not Nuclear Disarmament? by Christopher Ford
30 June 2010: Are Fathers Necessary? by Pamela Paul
23 June 2010: Are Liberals Smarter than Conservatives? by Jason Richwine
16 June 2010: Does the Internet Make You Dumber? by Nicholas Carr and Mind Over Mass Media by Steven Pinker
09 June 2010: Dead Dogs (only print the first six pages)by Colin Dayan

2009-10 School Year

02 June 2010: Sympathy Deferred by Theodore Dalrympe
26 May 2010: Watching TV Makes You Smarter by Steven Johnson
19 May 2010: Delimiting Death by Nature Editors and Presumptuous Consent by Wesley Smith
12 May 2010: Video Games Can Never Be Art by Roger Ebert and Why Video Games are Works of Art by Kyle Chayka
05 May 2010: The Data Driven Life by Gary Wolf
28 April 2010: National Honor Society Induction (no meeting)
21 April 2010: Into Teen Air by Bruce Barcott
14 April 2010: Million Dollar Murray by Malcolm Gladwell
07 April 2010: Can’t Wait ‘Til Tax Day by Ethan Porter
SPRING BREAK
24 March 2010: Resistance Resisters by Derrick Jensen
17 March 2010: To Stop Crime, Share Your Genes by Michael Seringhaus
10 March 2010: What Happened to Women? by Katha Pollitt
March 3 2010: Tillikum: The Slave Whale Who Chose to Fight Back by Alexander Cockburn
24 February 2010: Mothers in Combat Boots by Mary Eberstadt
17 February 2010: The Serfdom of Crowds by Jaron Lanier
10 February 2010: Why Are Liberals So Condescending? by Gerard Alexander and Condescending Liberals by Michael Kinsley
03 February 2010: Whole Foods Healthcare
27 January 2010: Why Your DNA Isn’t Your Destiny by John Cloud
20 Janurary 2010: Finals Week
13 January 2010: Green Guilt by Stephen Asma
06 January 2010: Rethinking Education as the Practice of Freedom by Henry Giroux
30 December 2009: No Discussion Group
23 December 2009: A Just Cause Does Not Equal a Just War by Howard Zinn
16 December 2009: Time for a Smarter Approach to Global Warming by Bjorn Lomborg
09 December 2009: German Lessons by Clay Risen
02 December 2009: The Puzzle of Boys by Thomas Bartlett
25 November 2009: Do the Right Thing by Sarah Sewall
18 November 2009: a brief story will be provided at the discussion group on Wed. night
11 November 2009: Death is Different by Carol Miller
04 November 2009: One week vacation. 🙂
28 October 2009: The Geek Defense by Erica Westly
21 October 2009: Mad Men 2.0 by David Sirota
14 Oct 2009: No meeting (MEA)
07 October 2009: Animal Liberation at 30 by Peter Singer
30 September 2009: Interview with Philip Zimbardo
23 September 2009: The Specter of Illiteracy and the Crisis of Democracy by Henry Giroux
16 September 2009: The Age of Enhancement by David Edmonds
09 September 2009: Try to watch Obama’s speech and then read Obama and the Bureaucratization of Health Care by Sarah Palin
02 September 2009: Is It Now a Crime to be Poor? by Barbara Ehrehnreich
26 August 2009: The Omnivore’s Delusion by Blake Hurst

Summer 2009

12 August: What you don’t know about your friends by Drake Bennett
July 29: Manhood for Amateurs: The Wilderness of Childhood by Michael Chabon
July 22: Sued by the Forest by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
July 15: Universal Health Care Isn’t Worth Our Freedom by Thomas Szasz
July 8: Beauty and Desecration by Roger Scruton
July 1: The conclusion of The Left Hand of Darkness and selection of a new book
June 24: The first ten chapters of The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
June 17: Sex Selection: Nobody’s Business? by William Saletan

2008-09 School Year

June 10: The Consolations of Pessimism by Alain de Botton and determing our reading schedule for summer.
June 3: Why Girls Are So Mean to Each Other by Jesse Bering
May 27: Parents’ Rights, Judges’ Rules by Kate Dailey
May 20: Don’t! by Jonah Lehrer
May 13: There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
May 06: Week Off (AP Exam Week)
April 29: The Disadvantages of an Elite Education by William Deresiewicz
April 22: Life, Liberty, and Abortion Reduction by James Kerian
April 15: Duped by Eric Adelman
April 8: Fiction and Faction by Andrew McCarthy
April 1: Duped by Eric Adelman (not meeting due to Teen Board tonight)
March 23: How Soccer is Ruining America: A Jeremiad by Stephen Webb
March 16: Growing up on Facebook by Peggy Orenstein
March 11: Rethinking Race in the Classroom by Allison Samuels
March 4: Why Can’t A Woman Write the Great American Novel? by Laura Miller (at Fireside)
February 25: Should scientists study possible links between race and IQ? (Yes) and (No)
February 18: My Drug Problem by Virginia Postrel
February 11: A Quibble by Mark Slouka
February 4: When Altruisim Isn’t Moral by Sally Satel (Room 14 at HHS)
January 28: Thieves by Richard Yates
January 14: Not Your Father’s Censorship by Harry Lewis
January 7: Most Likely to Succeed by Malcolm Gladwell (yes, this article, and yes, at Fireside)
Thursday, Jan 1: General Chit Chat and Discussion
December 17: Twenty Years On: Internalising the Fatwa by Kenan Malik (Meeting in Pogreba’s room at HHS this week)
December 10: Love, Hunger, Money by Sherman Alexie
December 3: Moral Fiction by Mary Gordon
November 26: First Person Plural by Paul Bloom
November 19: No Discussion Group (Great Conversations)
November 12: How To Tell a True War Story by Tim O’Brien
November 5: Citizen Gore Vidal by David Barsamian
October 29: A Boy’s Life by Hanna Rosin
October 22: The Secrets of Storytelling by Jeremy Hsu
October 15: Viewing Presidential Debate (6:30) Room 14 at HHS
October 8: In Defense of Prejudice by Jonathan Rauch
October 1: Are Too Many People Going to College? by Charles Murray
September 24: The Professional Panhandling Plague by Steven Malanga
September 17: As Barriers Disappear, Some Gender Gaps Widen by John Tierney (some of the linked research is great, if you have time to look)
September 10: D.C. Tries Cash as Motivator by Dion Haynes

Summer of 2008

Aug 20: The Gospel of Consumption by Jeffrey Kaplan
Aug 13: The Color-Coded Campaign by John Heilemann
Aug 6: Discuss the end of The Satanic Verses and the story of Christian the Lion (ignoring the music)
July 30: The Satanic Verses, pg. 369
July 23: Sections I and II of The Satanic Verses
July 16:Hollywood’s Hero Deficit by James Bowman and distribution of The Satanic Verses. If you would like a copy, please let me know right away.
July 9: The conclusion of Snow
July 2: Is Google Making Us Stupid? by Nicolas Carr
June 25: The first 24 chapters of Snow
June 18: Camp Justice
June 11: The Kindergarchy by Joseph Epstein and assigning reading pages in Snow
June 4: Norms and Deviations: Who’s to Say? by Stanley Fish and selection of summer reading.
We are reading Snow by Orhan Pamuk first. If you were not there tonight and would like me to order you a copy, let me know.

2007-08 School Year

September 12: Are We Failing Our Geniuses ?
September 19: Why We Need a Draft by Corporal Mark Finelli
September 26: Is ‘Do Unto Other’ Written into our Genes ? by Nicholas Wade
October 3: Bed-Wetter Nation by Rick Perlstein and Hear, Hear by Peggy Noonan
October 10: Has Artificial Beauty Become the New Feminism? by Jennifer Cognard-Black
October 17: Generation Q by Thomas Friedman
October 24: Finding Time by Rebecca Solnit
October 31: Killing the Consumer by Anna Quindlen
November 7: American Kids: Dumber than Dirt by Mark Moford
November 14:
November 21:Soldiering Ahead by Holly Yeager
November 28: Apologies All Around by Gordon Beauchamp
December 5: Crime, Drugs and Welfare–and Other Good News by Peter Wehner and Yuval Levin
December 12: Mormon in America by Peggy Noonan and Romney’s speech
December 19: Bonfire of the Disney Princesses by Barbara Ehrenreich
December 26: A Death in the Family by Christopher Hitchens
January 2: Excerpt from ‘Freedom Manifesto ‘ by Tom Hodgkinson
January 9: Women are Never Front-Runners by Gloria Steinem
January 16: In Praise of Melancholy by Eric Wilson
January 23: The Future of Marriage by Stephanie Coontz and The Marriage Gap by Kay Hymowitz
January 30: The Truth About Jenna by Amy Waldman
February 6: Is A New Dark Age at Hand? by Lawrence Murray
February 13: Everything that Rises Must Converge by Flannery O’Connor
February 20: The Dilettante by Edith Wharton
February 27: Cathedral by Raymond Carver
March 05: Why Can’t A Woman Be More Like A Man? by Christina Hoff Summers
March 12: The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chehkov
March 19: The Moral Instinct by Steven Pinker
March 26: Where Angels No Longer Fear to Tread
April 2: The Case for Fitting In by David Berreby
April 9: The Sting of Poverty by Drake Bennet
April 16: Plains Sense by Florence Williams
April 23: What Makes a Terrorist by Alan Krueger
April 30: Designer Babies and the Pro-Choice Movement by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
May 7: The Rise of the Rest by Fareed Zakaria
May 14: The Bigot in Your Brain by Siri Carpenter
May 21: Measure for Measure by Jonathan Gottschall
May 28: Subsidize Families with Children, Discuss Readings for the summer

Summer of 2007

June 06: Novel Discussion
June 13: A Cuban Death Rehearsal by Bella Thomas
June 27: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
July 5: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
July 11: A Reader’s Manifesto by B.R. Meyers
July 18: Blindness by Jose Saramago
July 25: Preface to Dangerous Ideas by Steven Pinker
Aug 1: Atonement by Ian McEwen
Aug 8: The Downside of Diversity by Michael Jonas
Aug 15: Supply, Demand, and Kidney Transplants
Aug 22: Abolish the SAT by Charles Murray

Readings for 2006-07 School Year

We will begin discussion group for the 2006-07 school year next week, on September 6th. We look forward to seeing you all there.

September 6: After College, a Life Without Debt ? by Jeffrey Williams
September 13: I Spy. Doesn’t Everyone? by Stephanie Rosenbloom
September 20: Paying the Poor by Sara Klugman
September 27: My Satirical Self by Wyatt Mason
October 4: What If It’s (Sort Of) a Boy and (Sort Of) a Girl?
October 11: Big Ideas and No Boundaries by Thomas Friedman and Another Open Letter to Thomas Friedman by David Sirota
October 18: A&P by John Updike
October 25: TV Might Cause Autism by Gregg Easterbrook
November 1: Can Wikipedia Ever Make the Grade? by Brock Read
November 8:
November 15: Ova for Sale by Kerry Howley
November 22: Thanksgiving Break
November 29: The Left Has Been Infected with the Disease of Intolerance by Brendan O’Neill
December 6: Closing the Black/White IQ Gap by Ronald Bailey
December 13: The New, Soft Paternalism by Jim Holt
December 20: Why Women Aren’t Funny by Christopher Hitchens
January 3: Predator Panic: A Closer Look by Benjamin Radford
January 10: Love’s Loopy Logic by Kaja Perina
January 17: Finals Week
January 24:
January 31: This is Your Brain on Drugs, Dad by Mike Males
February 7:
February 14: Should Courts Ban Demeaning Speech in Schools ? by Richard Fossey
February 21: Intelligence in the Classroom by Charles Murray
February 28:
March 7: Overdose on Narcissism by Clayton Collins
March 14: The Brain on the Stand by Jeffrey Rosen
March 21: A Pre-Birth Determination by Lynn Duke
March 28: Free-Speech Case Divides Bush and the Religious Right by Linda Greenhouse
April 18: Our Prejudices, Ourselves by Harvey Fierstein
April 25: Living on a Lifeboat by Garret Hardin
May 2: Pearls Before Breakfast by Gene Weingarten
May 9: No Discussion (Celebration of Excellence Dinner)
May 16: Study of NBA Sees Racial Bias in Calling Fouls by Alan Schwarz
May 24:
May 31: Five Star Jails
June 6: Meeting about Summer Discussion Group and Novel Choices

Readings 2005-06 School Year

September 7: The Space Traders by Derreck Bell
September 14: Who’s Next by Karen Houppert
September 21: A Nation of Wimps by Hara Marano
September 28: The Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka
October 5: Does Meritocracy Work? by Ross Douthat
October 12: The Cost of Free Speech by Harvey Mansfield
October 26: Into the Woods by James Parker
November 2: In Bin Laden’s Words by Bruce Lawrence
November 09: The War of the Liberals by Stephen Holmes
November 16:
November 23: Thanksgiving
November 30: Organ Donation (not o nline)
December 07: Lack of Curiousity is Curious
December 14: Is Extreme Bias a Mental Illness?
December 21: The Rock Star’s Burden
January 11: The Two Faces of A.P.
January 18:
January 25:
February 8:
February 15: Letter to the American Left
February 22: Rothschild’s Fiddle by Anton Chekhov
March 01: Rothschild’s Fiddle by Anton Chekhov
March 08: The Geopolitics of Sexual Frustration
March 15: A Wrongful Birth
March 22: Why Poor Countries are Poor
March 29: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State
April 04: The Six Lesson Teacher
May 03: A Sour Note o n Modern Times
May 10: The Wrong Way to Combat Terrorism by Sadakat Kadri
May 17: The Killing Fields of Central Africa
May 24: The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
May 31: O n the Rainy River by Tim O’Brien
07 June Convict Nation by Silja Talvi
14 June: A More Perfect Union by Jonathan Rauch
05 July: Meet the Malthusians Manipulating the Fear of Terror by Frank Furedi
12 July: At College, Women are Leaving Men in the Dust by Tamar Lewin