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Class Materials
What should I bring?
- a charged laptop
- a working Gmail account
- pencils and blue or black pens
- highlighters in at least four colors
- post-its and/or post-it flags
- two composition notebooks - one for Critical Reading and one for Writing
- a back-up strategy - either in the cloud or a USB stick
What resources will we use?
Texts:
How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Foster
Barron's Hot Words for the SAT, Carnavale
Kaplan's SAT 2400
1500 Words in 15 Minutes a Day
Everyday Words from Classic Origins
On Writing Well, Zinsser
Barron's Pass Key to the SAT
Among others...
Online / Multi-media resources:
- College Board's SAT site, including the SAT Question of the Day
- NoRedInk
- INeedAPencil
- Teacher's Discovery Quack SAT Vocabulary - 200 of the top SAT Vocabulary words
- Roots and Etymology terms - total of 625 possible terms to study
- Any and all free full SAT practice tests that we can find
Your critical reading assignments will be from the following publications (all online, but we will sometimes work with paper, other times with PDFs):
- The New Yorker
- The Atlantic Monthly
- Scientific American
- National Geographic
- Nature
- The Week
- The Economist
- BBC World News
- The New York Times
- The Washington Post
- Christian Science Monitor
Scoring Guidelines
- In-class work - 1x-2x
- Independent work - 1x-2x
- Assessments - 4x
- "Work Your Weakness" assignments - 2x-3x
Semester's Percentages
Your assessments will fall under either the broad category of Critical Reading or Writing, as those are the major parts of the SAT for which this class will prepare you.