Annotated Bibliography
Department of Education for the State of California. California School Dashboard. 2017, Accessed July 19, 2021, https://www.caschooldashboard.org/.
Dahl, Robert A. On Democracy. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998. This will be the main source of information about democracy as an institution; it provides insight about the history of democratic rules and provides information about the “requirements” for a democracy to form and work.
Deaton, Angus. The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality. Princeton: Princeton Press, 2013. This novel explores the concept of inequality, especially in different areas such as health and wealth, including inequalities between and within countries.
Foster, Thomas. How to Read Literature Like a Professor.
Ian Shapiro, presentation on “Democracy and Inequality,” Yale National Initiative, April 30, 2021.
Orwell, George (1954). Animal Farm. Harlow: Longman. Animal Farm is an allegory that reflects the events that lead up to the Russian Revolution, which historically reflects a socialist ideal that morphed into an actual dictatorship.
Orwell, George (1838). Homage to Catalonia. Homage to Catalonia is as close as one can get to an autobiography about Orwell; it chronicles his involvement in the military during the Spanish Civil War.
Orwell, George (1946). “The Lion and the Unicorn.” Gangrel, No. 4, Summer 1946
This is an essay about Orwell’s own thoughts about Britain during World War II.
Orwell, George (1949). Nineteen eighty-four. London: Penguin Books in association with Secker and Warburg. Nineteen eighty-four will be the focus text for the unit I am presenting to my AP English Literature and Composition class.
Orwell, George (1946). “Why I Write.” Gangrel, No. 4, Summer 1946. This essay is more autobiographical in nature; Orwell discusses the purpose of and motives for his writing in general.
Russakoff, Dale (2015). The Prize. Boston: Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
The Prize describes two different movements to revolutionize education in Newark, New Jersey: one from the top with wealthy benefactors and applying a business model to the school system, another from the bottom focusing on professional development for teachers and individualized instruction for students.
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