Non-Fiction:
Nonfiction at Heart: AP English Language Bernard Phelan, in an article written for AP Central, explains why non-fiction is essential to the AP Langugae and Composition class. Joseph Addison
(1672-1719) & Richard Steele (1672-1729): "Taste"
in The Spectator (No. 409), June 19, 1712
Francis
Bacon (1561-1626):
THE ESSAYES OR COVNSELS CIVILL AND MORALL (Renascence Editions) The Essays of Francis Bacon with a Glossary of archaic words and phrases Novum Organum, Aphorisms concerning The Interpretation of Nature and the Kingdom of Man. H. G. Bissinger:
George W.
Bush:
The Constitution Of The United States Of America, 1787 by Various Authors Miles Corwin:
Annie Dillard:
"The Mysticism of Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" (by Sandra Stahlman Elliott) Frederick
Douglass (1817-1895)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave Ralph Waldo
Emerson: "The
American Scholar";
Maria Edgeworth
(1768-1849)
"Imprisonment in Castle Rackrent: A Gothic Convention Reflecting Eighteenth Century Women's Reality," by K. D. Wixson Loren Eiseley
(1907-1977)
Benjamin
Franklin:
Charlotte
Perkins Gilman:
Thomas Hardy:
Jonathan
Harr
William
Hazlitt (1778-1830)
William Dean Howells:
Thomas Jefferson:
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Samuel
Johnson (1709-1784)
Boswell's Life of Johnson The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia Samuel Johnson Page, by Jack Lynch The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page Charles
Lamb (1775-1834)
Abraham
Lincoln:
H. L. Mencken
(1880-1956)
Michel de
Montaigne (1533-1592)
Non-Fiction
Chart One Way to Take Notes on History, Biography, Science, Political,
and Nature Writings:
George Orwell
(1903-1950)
Political Writings of George Orwell Thomas Paine:
Plato:
Publius:
Publius:
Eric Schlosser
Robert Louis
Stevenson (1850-1894)
"Henry David Thoreau: His Character and Opinions" "On Some Technical Elements of Style in Literature" Robert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, a Memorial, by Alexander H. Japp Henry David
Thoreau (1817-1862)
"A Plea for Captain John Brown" E. B. White,
(1899-1985)
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Affluenza (Scott Simon) there
are dozens more like it, too
The Shame
of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid TeachingÖ (Jonathan Kozol)
I just put together a longish list of non-fiction current events titles for a research project; email me if you would like a copy. Carole Hamilton Cary Academy Hi Tim-- It
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will go through.
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simple message, yet I have to wade through 4/5 of junk code
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