Oliver Bloch wrote:
> It is customary in my high school to assign summer reading for
> students entering AP courses in the coming fall. Last year I gave
> my students a bibliography of titles and allowed them to select any
> two. The assignment served to get students started thinking about
> the work of psychologists before beginning my AP Psychology
> course.
> It's time to update and distribute my list for next year's students
> and I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions of "must
> recommend" titles.
I have no idea whether or not these are appropriate for HS AP students, but
let me make some suggestions (if nothing else, it's always fun to think up
such a list...).
Elliot Aronson's "The Social Animal"
Daniel ("David") Dennett's "Consciousness Explained"
Freud's "Civilization and Its Discontents" (particularly appropriate this
year)
Judith Rich Harris' "The Nurture Assumption"
David Myers' "The Pursuit of Happiness"
Skinner's "Science and Human Behavior"
And what about the "Annual Editions" published by Dushkin/McGraw-Hill? You
get a lot of content in relatively few pages.
Paul Smith
Alverno College
