Materials that will help in preparing for the reading section of SAT :
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Suggested Reading
New York Times, www.nytimes.com (particularly the Science section)
Economist, www.economist.com
Scientific American , www.scientificamerican.com
National Geographic, www.nationalgeographic.com
Newsweek, www.newsweek.com
Time Magazine, www.time.com
Smithsonian Magazine, www.smithsonianmag.com
The Atlantic Monthly, www.theatlantic.com/magazine
Wired, www.wired.com

For links to many additional resources, Arts & Letters Daily: www.aldaily.com
Historical Documents, Sources: : https://www.ushistory.org/documents/

Also see: Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein, and Russell Durst: Tiley Say/I Say: The Moves that
Matter in Academic Writing, 2nd Edition. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2009.

Fiction, suggested authors: Julia Alvarez, Jane Austen, Charlotte/ Anne Bronte, Michael
Chabon, Charles Dickens, Jhumpa Lahiri, Toni Morrison, George Orwell, Edith Wharton

Science and Social Science Authors: Daniel Kahneman, Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant,
Daniel Levitin, Brian Greene, Stephen Hawking, Lisa Randall

Note: If you are seeking additional resources for graphic-based questions, you may want to
work with Science sections from released ACTs. Although somewhat more challenging than
SAT data analysis questions overall, they nevertheless require many of the same skills tested
on the SAT. In addition to the tests in 77ze Official ACT Prep Guide, several more authentic
exams are available online.

Key Historical Movements and Figures:

The Revolutionary Period: Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Alexander
Hamilton
The Abolitionist Movement: Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Herny Ward
Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe
Transcendentalism: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau
The Civil War: Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglass, Daniel Webster
The Women's Rights Movement: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott,
Angelina and Sarah Grimke (also active in the Abolitionist Movement)
The Progressive Movement and Muckrakers: Upton Sinclair, Jane Addams, Ida Tarbell,
Jacob Riis, WEB DuBois, Booker T. Washington
World Wars I and II: Woodrow Wilson (WWI), Franklin D. Roosevelt (WWII)
The Civil Rights Movement: Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Fannie Lou Hamer, John F.
Kennedy

Some Important Passage Readings:

1. Structure of the Government (Democracy Vs. Older Forms)
   Example: Official SAT Test 4, Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine
   Suggested Readings:
   a) Edmund Burke "Reflections on the Revolution in France" - https://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/burke1790part1.pdf
   b) Thomas Paine "Common Sense" - https://www.gutenberg.org/files/147/147-h/147-h.htm ,
   "The Rights of Man" - https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3742/3742-h/3742-h.htm,
   "Age of Reason" - https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3743/3743-h/3743-h.htm
2. Injustice (Slavery, racial/gender discrimination, economic suffering) + Response to injustice (new legislation, civil disobedience)
   Example: Official SAT Test 2, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Official SAT Test 3, Mary Wollstonecraft
   Suggested Readings:
   a) Elizabeth Stanton "History of Woman Suffrage" - https://www.gutenberg.org/files/28556/28556-h/28556-h.htm
   b) Mary Wollstonecraft "A vindication of the rights of men, in a letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke" - https://www.gutenberg.org/files/62757/62757-h/62757-h.htm
   c) Mary Wollstonecraft "Maria The Wrongs of Woman" - https://www.gutenberg.org/files/134/134-h/134-h.htm
3. Questions of Historical Progress and Reform. Rethink "Abolition of Slavery" or Women's Rights
   Example: Official SAT Test 1, Virginia Woolf + PSAT, Frederick Douglas
   Suggested Readings:
   a) Catherine Beecher "An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism" http://at.virginia.edu/38A5E6z
   b) Angelina Grimke " Letters to Catherine E. Beecher" - https://www.gutenberg.org/files/53852/53852-h/53852-h.htm
4. Political, Economic, Cultural, Moral Attributes of the US
   Example: Official SAT Test 6, Abe Lincoln and Henry David Thoreau
   Suggested Readings:
   a) Abe Lincoln Writings http://bit.ly/3qe3gZ3
   b) Henry David Thoreau "Civil Disobedience" http://bit.ly/3slL3KS
   c) Alexis de Tocqueville "Democracy in America" http://bit.ly/35zzGFu
5. Founding Papers + Ideologies
   Example: Official SAT Test 8, Abe Lincoln and Stephen Douglas
   Suggested Readings:
   a) Abe Lincoln
   b) The Declaration of Independence http://bit.ly/2XyNhsl

Some books to read: