上一篇文章介紹了SAT考試結構，考察內容，考試時間等。其中SAT的Reading里面提到了有1-2篇文章來源于US Founding Document or a text in the Great Global Conversation。今天博主具體介紹一下這些資料來源。

US Founding Document從字面意思結合美國歷史就能夠想到是那些文件和內容，比如美國憲-law。

Great Global Conversation是知名人物寫的關于democracy, justice，freedom, human dignity等等，比如馬丁路德金的 I have a dream。

我們知道這些資料后，就明白如下這些資料是我們SAT的備考材料。

Great Global Conversation

George Washington

George Washington’s Farewell Address

Abraham Lincoln

Gettysburg Address (Lincoln Memorial Version)

Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address

The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Eighth State of the Union Address (The Four Freedoms)

Dwight Eisenhower

Eisenhower’s Farewell Address (Military Industrial Complex)

John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address

Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson’s Farewell Address

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan’s Berlin Wall Speech

Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter’s 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 Woman’s 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

以上材料能過被SAT入選，其思想性和啟發性也是一大亮點，這些材料和美國高中教育中的“世界公民教育”理念也是一致的。也適合具備一定英文能力的學生也可以作為課外英文讀物。

美國本科備考SAT只是其中一環，整個準備和規劃過程非常漫長，需要做很多事情。有意出國留學的學生和家長一定早點準備。