AP Language and Composition: Literature Studied
“Take Me to Church” by Hozier
“The Flesh and the Spirit” by Anne Bradstreet
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
“Not by Math Alone” by Sandra Day O’Connor and Roy Romer
Declaration of Independence
Four articles on the effects of spirit days in schools
Commonwealth Club Address by Cesar Chavez
“Letter from a Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Time Magazine article on Colin Kaepernick kneeling during the national anthem
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“New York, New York” by Frank Sinatra
“Empire State of Mind” by Jay Z
“The Price of Inequality” by Joseph Stiglitz
“Is the American Dream Dead?” by August Turak
State of Human Trafficking in California by California Department of Justice
“The Fight Against Sex Slavery” by Sunitha Krishnan
Excerpts from Django Unchained
“American Dream is alive, but unrecognized” Everett Rosenfeld
“The Myth of Economic Immobility” by Greg Beato
“Nick Carraway is gay and in love with Gatsby” by Greg Olear
Excerpts from The Things They Carried by Time O’Brien—“The Things They Carried” and “In the Field”
“This is Water” by David Foster Wallace
“Me Talk Pretty One Day” by David Sedaris
“Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie
Excerpt from “Education” by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I Want a Wife” by Judy Brady
“Lost in the Kitchen” by Dave Barry
“The Yellow Wall-Paper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“The Speech of Miss Polly Baker” by Benjamin Franklin
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
“A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift
“Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan
“The Myth of the Latin Woman” by Judith Ortiz Cofer
“Just Walk on By” by Brent Staples
“White Privilege” by Peggy McIntosh
“Color Blind vs. Color Brave” by Mellody Hobson
“Uprising” by Muse
“Minority” by Green Day
Excerpt from “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson