Friday, June 5, 2020

SAT Great Global Conversations Reading List

One of the big changes on the new SAT is the inclusion of historical documents. The SAT is expecting you to enter the Great Global Conversation In other words, these essays are sort of like a huge group text. But instead of figuring out where to go for dinner, everybody is, you knowmaking history. Theres a really good chance some of these essays, letters, and documents will show up on the SAT. Great Global Conversation: Founding Fathers George Washington Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Franklin Great Global Conversation: Founding Documents The Declaration of Independence The Constitution The Federalist Papers The Bill of Rights Great Global Conversation: Later American Presidents Abraham Lincoln: Gettysburg Address Second Inaugural Address Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Dwight Eisenhower John F. Kennedy Jimmy Carter Ronald Reagan SAT Reading: Civil Rights and Suffrage Frederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass My Bondage and My Freedom Sojourner Truth: The Narrative of Sojourner Truth Booker T. Washington: Up From Slavery The Future of the American Negro W.E.B. DuBois: The Souls of Black Folk The Conservation of Races Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Southern Horrors The Red Record Mob Rule in New Orleans Elizabeth Cady Stanton: History of Woman Suffrage The Womans Bible Reminiscences SAT Reading: British Voices Mary Wollstonecraft Edmund Burke The Magna Carta SAT Reading: American Voices Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau Youve got a great reading list here, but dont forget to check out other Magoosh blogs to help you figure out what to do with all these documents. Now get reading!