AP+Language+&+Comp

==Sources== [|John Muir's "Shadow Lake"] [|John Lavery, The Cemetery, Etaples, 1919, oil on canvas, 59 x 90 cm, Imperial War Museum, London.] [|"Angel in the House"] by Coventry Patmore [|"Why I Want a Wife" by Judy Syfers] [|Dracula Chpt. 1] [|Scathing Critical response to Joan Didion]

Websites
[|Learning to Read an Image] [|Comics in the Classroom resources] [|AP Central Language & Comp] dianahacker.com [|Toulmin Method Overview] [|Outline of Rogerian Argument] [|American Rhetoric]--source for great speeches
 * [|Grammar Web Guide]
 * [|AP English Language and Composition Web Guide]
 * [|article for first timers]

Resource Files
[|APLAC Vocab and Terms.doc] [|WHAT DOES WHAT- Techniques in Analyzing Texts.doc] [|Tone and Attitude- Broken Up.doc] [|AP Resource Packet.pdf] [|Vertical Alignment Materials.doc] from another wkshp

**Book List**
__**Textbooks/Educational books**__ [|//A Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature// by Elizabeth Kantos] [|"They Say / I Say": The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing with Readings (Paperback)] //Everyday Use// (textbook by David Jolliffe and others- amazing at breaking down rhetoric) [|Voice Lessons by Nancy Dean](REALLY good for the beginning of the year! reproducible handouts on Diction, Syntax, Imagery, Figurative Language, etc.) //[|Cliffs AP English Language and Composition, 3rd Edition]// Barron's Princeton's [|Generative Grammar of the Sentence by Francis Christensen] [|The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager and the Doomed (Hardcover) by Karen Elizabeth Gordon] //[|CliffsQuickReview Writing: Grammar, Usage, and Style]// __**NonFiction**__ //Thank You for Arguing// //A Hope in the Unseen// //A Small Place// by Jamaica Kinkaid
 * This book is an entertaining way to look at argument, both past and present (Heinrich uses examples from Plato to The Simpson's to his own son/daughter!)
 * Suskind pens a well-written and thought provoking book about a young black boy coming out of urban education to find himself lost in the world of Ivy League. The story is compelling, but the art of language used by the author is amazing. Can be used as a rhetorical strategies analysis OR argument analysis.
 * Sonja S. suggests an anticipatory set comparing the two different book covers