Preliminary Study Plan – Reading

Active Reading (30 min/day) 

Inculcate a habit of reading articles based on topics, such as

• Literature, History, and Geography
• Science (Biology, Chemistry & Physics, Natural Science & Earth Science)
• Founding document or great global conversation
• Social Studies (Anthropology, Communication Studies, Economics, Education, Law, Political Science, Psychology & Sociology)

You can refer to the following links:

• http://www.sparknotes.com/sparknotes/(Literature, History, Social Studies, Science)
• http://sat.ivyglobal.com/great-global-conversation(Great global conversation)
• http://www.foundingfathers.info/documents/(Founding document)
• https://www.congress.gov/founding-documents/(Founding document)
• http://www.publicbooks.org/fiction/for-world-literature(World Literature)
• sciencemag.org (Science)

You can also start reading fictions and non-fiction books. Some of them can be downloaded here:

1. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
2. Angels and Demons – Dan Brown
3. Animal Farm – George Orwell
4. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
5. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
6. Sherlock Holmes Illustrated – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
7. The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
8. The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexander Dumas
9. The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
10. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
11. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
12. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
13. The Origin of Species – Charles Darwin
14. Timeline – Michael Crichton
15. Tuesdays With Morrie – Mitch Albom

Follow the below process to read a particular article:

• Refer to any of the above sources.
• Choose a particular article.
• Read the article as many times as you want. Ideally, read it until you have understood the entire article.
• Close the article and write a small summary of whatever you have understood (not more than 5-6 lines)

Write down all difficult words that you come across when you read these articles/books and study their synonyms from https://www.thesaurus.com/. It is good to go through some vocabulary that will help you in “word in context questions” on your SAT.