Bibliography
Resources
American College Testing Program, "Explaining What College Readiness Scores Mean," American College Testing Program, http://www.act.org/standard.
This is an all around good resource for those trying to understand the ACT.
Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning: Book Two, http://hiwaay.net/~paul/bacon/advancement/book2ch13.html
This is an interesting text in which discusses Bacon's his own educational theories in his own words.
Stephanie Bancherno, Chicago Tribune Archive Collections, "As AP Classes Grow, Test Failure Rate Rises,"
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2007-02-07/news/0702070024_1_low-income-students-exams-tougher-classes.
Although this article is a few years old, it explains the overall increase of AP classes in the Chicago Public School system.
Sean Burke. Authorship: From Plato to the Postmodern. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1995.
This text offers many different avenues for looking at the role of the author in reference to a text.
Chicago Public Schools, "Advanced Placement," Chicago Public Schools http://www.cps.edu/Programs/Academic_and_enrichment/Pages/AdvancedPlacement.aspx.
This CPS website is very basic and just gives the basic understanding of CPS's goals for Advanced Placement students.
College Board, "A.P. United States History Free-Response Questions 2010," The College Board, http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap10_frq_us_history.pdf
This is the actual A. P. US History Free-Response Questions from the 2010 exam.
College Board, "A.P. US History: The DBQ," The College Board, http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/courses/teachers_corner/3497.html.
The site gives a brief history of document based questions.
Hermione Lee. Biography: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Lee's book is a short overview of biography told through the historical context of British biographies.
Library of Congress, "Teacher's Guides and Analysis Tool," Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/guides.html
This site offers a great deal of documents that you can use in your classroom as part of a document analysis lesson.
Nigel Hamilton. Biography: A Brief History. Boston: Harvard University Press, 2007.
Hamilton's book is like Lee's in that it gives an overview. His view, on the other hand, is more of a global one.
Samuel Johnson. The Rambler. Electronic Text Center. University of Virginia Library.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/Joh4All.html.
These are examples of some of the first recorded biographies.
Nigel Hamilton. How to do Biography. Boston: Harvard University Press, 2008.
This is a short read that can help you focus your students towards asking the right questions about an author.
mantex, "What Is Close Reading? – Guidance Notes," mantex, http://www.mantex.co.uk/2009/09/14/what-is-close-reading-guidance-notes/.
This site offers a brief overview of close reading as a strategy.
The National Archives Experience, "Lesson Plans and Teaching Activities," The National Archive Experience, http://www.archives.gov/nae/education/lesson-plans.html.
This site offers a variety of documents you can use to teach document analysis.
Arnold Rampersad. The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume I: 1902-1941, I, Too, Sing America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Rampersad's account of Hughes's life is interesting and can be easily digested by students in small pieces.
Lawrance Thompson. Robert Frost: The Early Years. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1966.
I also intended on using pieces by Robert Frost and like Rampersad's book I thought this too was easy for students to understand.
Lawrance Thompson. Robert Frost: Years of Triumph. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1970.
This is a nice book to compare and contrast against Robert Frost: The Early Years.
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