Apologetics Question

A reader writes:

First off, I truly enjoy reading your blog daily, it is easily one of my favorites. I also wanted to let you know that I am working my way through your Mary trilogy of books and have found them both informative and a great read.

Secondly, I am a theology teacher/campus minister at a Catholic high school in Michigan. We have a really solid theology program here; as a matter of fact this year we started using the Didache Series from Midwest Theological Forum. I am emailing you now to see if you would have any suggestions in regards to apologetics. I proposed to our administration and pastor in the fall that we offer a Senior theology elective on Catholic Apologetics in 2012. That proposal was accepted, and I will be teaching this class for the first time next year. I have already started to look for materials for the class. The one book that I thought would be a good “textbook” would be the ‘Beginning Apologetics’ series of books from San Juan Catholic Seminars. Would you have any recommendations, particularly in the area of multimedia tools like DVD’s, which would be of benefit for this class?

Funnily enough, I have never compiled a list of fave rave apologetics books or media. I have certain books that mean a lot to me personally (stuff by Chesterton, Kreeft, Lewis, Thomas Howard, and sundry others). But it’s not an organized list and I have not made a study of apologetics literature.

The places I’d go if I were you are a) Catholic Answers, or b) Steve Ray’s site. They’ve actually done the heavy lifting of putting together either reading lists or just flat amassing a ton of material. Lots of it is accessible to high schoolers. There are other places to go too, of course, but I don’t want to overwhelm you. I would also, of course, point you to my stuff for certain apologetics needs. My books are not an organized course, but I’m told that some of them have wound up on high school syllabi, so that’s something, I guess.

Hope that helps!