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SAT考试备考资料介绍:阅读中的历史和人文资料清单

2023-09-14 10:26阅读:
上一篇文章介绍了SAT考试结构,考察内容,考试时间等。其中SATReading里面提到了有1-2篇文章来源于US Founding Document or a text in the Great Global Conversation。今天博主具体介绍一下这些资料来源。

US Founding Document从字面意思结合美国历史就能够想到是那些文件和内容,比如美国宪-law

Great Global Conversation是知名人物写的关于democracy, justicefreedom, human dignity等等,比如马丁路德金的 I have a dream
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我们知道这些资料后,就明白如下这些资料是我们SAT的备考材料。


Great Global Conversation

George Washington
George Washingtons Farewell Address

Abraham Lincoln
Gettysburg Address (Lincoln Memorial Version)
Abraham Lincolns Second Inaugural Address
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelts First Inaugural Address
Franklin D. Roosevelts Eighth State of the Union Address (The Four Freedoms)

Dwight Eisenhower
Eisenhowers Farewell Address (Military Industrial Complex)

John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedys Inaugural Address

Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnsons Farewell Address

Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagans Berlin Wall Speech

Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carters Crisis of Confidence Speech

Harry Truman
Truman Doctrine

American Founding Documents
Declaration of Independence
The United States Bill of Rights
The Federalist Papers
A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention for Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
U.S. Constitution
The Journal of the Debates in the Convention which Framed the Constitution of the United States May September 1787 (Volume 1)
The Journal of the Debates in the Convention which Framed the Constitution of the United States, Volume II

Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke - Selected Works
Edmund Burke - Volume 1
Edmund Burke - Volume 2
Edmund Burke - Volume 3
Edmund Burke - Volume 4
Edmund Burke - Volume 5
Edmund Burke - Volume 6
Edmund Burke - Volume 7
Edmund Burke - Volume 8
Edmund Burke - Volume 9
Edmund Burke - Volume 10
Edmund Burke - Volume 11
Edmund Burke - Volume 12

Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Women

Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi - Freedom's Battle
Mahatma Gandhi - A Guide to Health
Mahatma Gandhi - Third Class in Indian Railways

Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau, Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau, Walking
Henry David Thoreau, The Maine Woods
Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
Henry David Thoreau, Canoeing in the Wilderness
Henry David Thoreau, A Plea for Captain John Brown
Henry David Thoreau, Excursions

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Womans Bible
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897

Aristotle
The Athenian Constitution, Aristotle

British Historical Documents
The Magna Carta

Thomas Jefferson
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume I
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume II
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume III
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume IV

Benjamin Franklin
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Book of Experiments and Observations on Electricity Made at Philadelphia in America by Benjamin Franklin

Booker T. Washington
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington
The Future of the American Negro by Booker T. Washington
The Story of Slavery by Booker T. Washington

Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas: An American Slave
My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass
Abolition Fanaticism in New York by Frederick Douglass

Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Southern Horrors by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Mob Rule in New Orleans by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

W.E.B. DuBois
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois
The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America by W.E.B. DuBois
The Negro by W.E.B DuBois
Darkwater: Voices From Within the Veil by W.E.B. DuBois
The Conservation of Races by W.E.B. DuBois

Olive Gilbert
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

以上材料能过被SAT入选,其思想性和启发性也是一大亮点,这些材料和美国高中教育中的“世界公民教育”理念也是一致的。也适合具备一定英文能力的学生也可以作为课外英文读物。

美国本科备考SAT只是其中一环,整个准备和规划过程非常漫长,需要做很多事情。有意出国留学的学生和家长一定早点准备。
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