AP Seminar
All entering 10/11 AP Seminar students will read one book of your choice from the AP Seminar non-fiction list, and complete the assigned tasks.
AP Seminar |
All entering 10/11 AP Seminar students will read one book of your choice from the AP Seminar non-fiction list (below), and complete the assigned tasks.
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Bad Feminist
by Roxane Gay
"In this collection of essays, novelist and social commentator Roxane Gay explores feminism, gender and sexuality, race and entertainment, and politics. She also writes about her own experiences growing up in the American Midwest as a child of Haitian parents. From this unique perspective, Gay examines the challenges women continue to face in society long after the dawn of the feminist movement. She acknowledges cultural contradictions in her own life, including a fondness for Sweet Valley High novels and rap music, despite her dedication to the fight for gender and race equality."
Subjects: Culture, Women, Social conditions, Sex roles, Race relations, Feminism, Intersectionality
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser
"A journalist explores the homogenization of American culture and the impact of the fast food industry on modern-day health, economy, politics, popular culture, entertainment, and food production."
Subjects: Environmental history, Food, Popular culture, Public relations, Social class, Weight loss
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Freakonomics Series #1
by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
"In Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, authors Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner discuss such varied topics as crime rates, whether reading to your children will make them better students, abortion laws, and many other topics that are seemingly unrelated to economics. The authors analyze these topics from an economic perspective. They show how this is possible and what can be divined about the future and understood about current statistical rates from economic theories. The book shows that the study of economics is useful for understanding not only business and finance, but also many other diverse fields."
Subjects: Economics, Culture, Current events, Modern Life, Causation, Regression analysis
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How to be an Anti-Racist
by Ibram X. Kendi
"From the National Book Award–winning author comes a bracingly original approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society—and in ourselves. Ibram X. Kendi’s concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America—but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other."
Subjects: Antiracism, Discrimination, Ethnic identity, Identity (Psychology), Race relations, Racism
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Outliers: The Story of Success
by Kurt Busiek & Alex Ross
"Malcolm Gladwell has a knack for looking at things from a different perspective. In Outliers, he takes a new look at what makes someone successful. Most think successful people possess common traits, habits, or philosophies. Gladwell suggests we look deeper at heritage and culture as the basis of accomplishment. By looking at famous, successful people he shows their achievements are due to certain advantages in their lives. Advantages that others with similar talents have not had, and therefore have not succeeded. There are many examples throughout the book to illustrate the point of "Outliers". Such as how a large portion of the descendants of Jewish immigrant garment workers have become high power attorneys, or how the hard work of growing rice in East Asia for generations has made children there more adept at math."
Subjects: Success, Culture, Social class, Sociology, Achievement motivation, Business success, High achievement, Human behavior, Intellectuals, Personal conduct, Successful people
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The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
by Jon Ronson
"In The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry, journalist Jon Ronson examines the theme of madness that seems to be running rampant through the modern world. He explores the minds of psychopaths, as well as the entire industry that has sprung up around their treatment. Ronson draws on first-hand observations of those labeled psychopathic, the doctors and scientists who work in the field, and the everyday citizens who walk a fine line between sanity and madness."
Subjects: Psychology, Sociology, Mental disorders, Biographies, History, Social sciences, Psychiatry, Medical professions, Journalism, Neurosciences
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