Part.01写在前面
读书的好处不用多说,笛卡尔曾说过,读一本好书,就是和许多高尚的人谈话。对于想去美国名校的你来说,好好读书的作用则更“实用”。
美国高中生适合读哪些书呢?
根据 corestandards.org,美国核心课程标准,我们总结了适合美国高中生阅读的书单,包括小说,戏剧,诗歌,以及英语语言艺术、历史/社会学、科学和科技相关等周边材料。
这些书单不仅可以帮你提高英文阅读能力,让你更客观得了解美国的风土人情,增加对西方文化的认识,同时对 SAT 或 ACT 的阅读考试也能起到潜移默化的提升作用。
在正式看书单列表之前,乌老师先给各位同学一些小tips,有助于大家更好的阅读:
书单标题建议原文搜索,这样最精准;
所有书籍均要求为英文版;
无论纸质书还是电子书,都建议在亚马逊或当当网购买,以确保正版;
同理,能搜到在线版本也可以;
不建议学生逐字 逐句抠生词,不需要查出所有陌生单词,并尽可能结合略读与精读。
话不多说,下面才是重点!建议大家收藏观看~
Part.02
美国 9-10 年级的推荐书目
01 小说 Stories
Homer.The Odyssey 荷马史诗
Ovid.Metamorphoses变形记
Gogol,Nikolai.“The Nose.”鼻子
De Voltaire,F. A. M.Candide,Or The Optimist老实人
Turgenev,Ivan.Fathers and Sons 父与子
Henry,O.“The Gift of the Magi.”麦琪的礼物
Kafka,Franz.The Metamorphosis变形记
Steinbeck,John.The Grapes of Wrath 愤怒的葡萄
Bradbury,Ray.Fahrenheit 451 华氏 451 度
Olsen,Tillie.“I Stand Here Ironing.” 我站在这儿熨烫
Achebe,Chinua.Things Fall Apart 分崩离析
Lee,Harper.To Kill A Mockingbird杀死一只知更鸟
Shaara,Michael.The Killer Angels 杀手天使
Tan,Amy.The Joy Luck Club 喜福会
Alvarez,Julia.In the Time of the Butterflies
蝴蝶情人
Zusak,Marcus.The Book Thief偷书贼
02 戏剧 Drama Sophocles
Sophocles.Oedipus Rex 俄狄浦斯
Shakespeare,William.The Tragedy of Macbeth麦克白
Ibsen,Henrik.A Doll’s House 玩偶之家
Williams,Tennessee.The Glass Menagerie 玻璃动物园
Ionesco,Eugene.Rhinoceros犀牛
Fugard,Athol.“Master Harold”…and the boys 哈罗德主人和男孩
03 诗歌 Poetry
Shakespeare,William.“Sonnet 73.” 十四行诗
Donne,John. “Song.”
Shelley,Percy Bysshe.“Ozymandias.”奥兹曼迪亚斯
Poe,Edgar Allan.“The Raven.” 乌鸦
Dickinson,Emily.“We Grow Accustomed to the Dark.” 我们习惯了黑暗
Houseman,A. E.“Loveliest of Trees.” 最可爱的树
Johnson,James Weldon.“Lift Every Voice and Sing.”
Cullen,Countee. “Yet Do I Marvel.”
Auden,Wystan Hugh.“Musee des Beaux Arts.”
Walker,Alice. “Women.”
Baca,Jimmy Santiago.“I Am Offering This Poem to You.”
04 英语语言艺术
Informational Texts: English Language Arts
Henry,Patrick.“Speech to the Second Virginia Convention.”在第二次弗吉尼亚大会上的演说
Washington,George.“Farewell Address.” 告别演说
Lincoln,Abraham.“Gettysburg Address.” 葛底斯堡演说
Lincoln,Abraham.“Second Inaugural Address.”第二次就职演说
Roosevelt,Franklin Delano.“State of the Union Address.”国情咨文
Hand,Learned.“I Am an American Day Address.”集会演讲
Smith,Margaret Chase.“Remarks to the Senate in Support of a Declaration of Conscience.”良心演讲
King,Jr.,Martin Luther.“Letter from Birmingham Jail.”伯明翰监狱的信
King,Jr.,Martin Luther.“I Have a Dream:Address Delivered at the March on Washington,D.C.,for Civil Rights on August 28,1963.”我有一个梦
Angelou,Maya.I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings我知道为何笼中鸟在歌唱
Wiesel,Elie.“Hope,Despair and Memory.”希望,绝望和记忆
Reagan,Ronald.“Address to Students at Moscow State University.”莫斯科大学的演说
Quindlen,Anna.“A Quilt of a Country.” 拼织国家
05 历史/社会学研究
Informational Texts: History/Social Studies
Brown,Dee.Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West魂归伤膝谷
Connell,Evan S.Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn 晨星之子
Gombrich,E. H.The Story of Art,16th Edition艺术的故事
Kurlansky,Mark.Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World 鳕鱼
Haskins,Jim.Black,Blue and Gray: African Americans in the Civil War黑,蓝和灰:内战中的非裔美国人
Dash,Joan.The Longitude Prize 经度奖
Thompson,Wendy.The Illustrated Book of Great Composers 伟大作曲家插图百科
06 科学,数学和科技
Informational Texts: Science,Mathematics,and Technical Subjects
Euclid.Elements 几何原理
Cannon,Annie J.“Classifying the Stars.” 恒星分类
Walker,Jearl.“Amusement Park Physics.”物理游乐园
Preston,Richard.The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story 热点区域:可怕的真实故事
Devlin,Keith.Life by the Numbers 数学化的生命
Hoose,Phillip.The Race to Save Lord God Bird
Hakim,Joy.The Story of Science: Newton at the Center 科学的故事
Nicastro,Nicholas.Circumference: Eratosthenes and the Ancient Quest to Measure the Globe圆周:厄拉多塞和古老的地球测量问题
Part.03
美国高中 11-12 年级的推荐书目
01 小说 Stories
Chaucer,Geoffrey.The Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷故事集
De Cervantes,Miguel.Don Quixote 唐吉可德
Austen,Jane.Pride and Prejudice 傲慢与偏见
Poe,Edgar Allan.“The Cask of Amontillado.”一桶蒙特亚白葡萄酒
自己翻译吧.. 才6000字.. 又不是很难..经典essay
Bronte,Charlotte.Jane Eyre 简爱
Hawthorne,Nathaniel.The Scarlet Letter 红字
Dostoevsky,Fyodor.Crime and Punishment 罪与罚
Jewett,Sarah Orne.“A White Heron.” 白苍鹭
Melville,Herman.Billy Budd,Sailor 水手比利·巴德
Chekhov,Anton. “Home.” 家
Fitzgerald,F. Scott. The Great Gatsby 了不起的盖茨比
Faulkner,William.As I Lay Dying 我弥留之际
Hemingway,Ernest.A Farewell to Arms 永别了武器
Hurston,Zora Neale.Their Eyes Were Watching God凝望上帝
Borges,Jorge Luis.“The Garden of Forking Paths.”小径分岔的花园
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Bellow,Saul.The Adventures of Augie March奥吉玛奇历险记
Morrison,Toni. The Bluest Eye蓝眼睛
Garcia,Cristina. Dreaming in Cuban古巴梦
Lahiri,Jhumpa. The Namesake同命人
02 戏剧 Drama
Shakespeare,William.The Tragedy of Hamlet哈姆雷特
Moliere,Jean-Baptiste Poquelin. Tartuffe答尔丢夫
Wilde,Oscar.The Importance of Being Earnest认真的重要性
Wilder,Thornton.Our Town: A Play in Three Acts三幕剧:我们镇
Miller,Arthur. Death of a Salesman推销员之死
Hansberry,Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun阳光下的葡萄干
Soyinka,Wole.Death and the King’s Horseman: A Play死亡和国王的骑兵
03 诗歌 Poetry
Li Po. “A Poem of Changgan.”长干行
Donne,John.“A Valediction Forbidding Mourning.”别离辞·莫悲伤
Wheatley,Phyllis.“On Being Brought From Africa to America.”从非洲到美洲
Keats,John.“Ode on a Grecian Urn.”希腊古翁颂
Whitman,Walt. “Song of Myself.”自我之歌
Dickinson,Emily. “Because I Could Not Stop for Death.”因为我不能等待死亡
Tagore,Rabindranath. “Song VII.”诗歌
Eliot,T. S.“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”普鲁弗洛克的情歌
Pound,Ezra. “The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter.”水路商人的妻子—— —封信
Frost,Robert. “Mending Wall.”修墙
Neruda,Pablo. “Ode to My Suit.”西服颂
Bishop,Elizabeth. “Sestina.”六节诗
Ortiz Cofer,Judith. “The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica.”卡德
Dove,Rita. “Demeter’s Prayer to Hades.”得墨忒耳对哈德斯的祈祷
Collins,Billy. “Man Listening to Disc.”听唱片的人
04 英语语言艺术
Informational Texts: English Language Arts
Paine,Thomas. Common Sense常识
United States.The Bill of Rights (Amendments One through Ten of the United States Constitution)人权法案
Thoreau,Henry David. Walden瓦尔登湖
Emerson,Ralph Waldo. “Society and Solitude.”社会与孤独
Porter,Horace. “Lee Surrenders to Grant,April 9th,1865.”李将军向格兰特将军投降
Chesterton,G. K. “The Fallacy of Success.”成功的谬误
Mencken,H. L.The American Language,4th Edition美国语言
Wright,Richard. Black Boy黑孩子
Orwell,George. “Politics and the English Language.”政治与英语语言
Hofstadter,Richard.“Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth.”林肯与白手起家神话
Tan,Amy. “Mother Tongue.”母语
Anaya,Rudolfo. “Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry.”挑出诗中的玉米饼
05 历史/社会学
Informational Texts: History/Social Studies
Tocqueville,Alexis de.Democracy in America Declaration of Sentiments by the Seneca Falls Conference感伤宣言
Douglass,Frederick.“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?: An Address Delivered in Rochester,New York,on 5 July 1852.”7 月 4 日对黑奴有何意义
An American Primer.Edited by Daniel J. Boorstin美国入门
Lagemann,Ellen Condliffe.“Education.”教育
McPherson,James M.What They Fought For 1861–18651861-1865 为何而战
Amar,Akhil Reed.America’s Constitution: A Biography美国宪法:传记
McCullough,David. 17761776
Bell,Julian. Mirror of the World: A New History of Art世界之镜:新的艺术史
FedViews by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco(搜索网上资源)
06 科学,数学和科技
Informational Texts: Science,Mathematics,and Technical Subjects
Gladwell,Malcolm. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference转折点:小东西产生的大差异
Tyson,Neil deGrasse.“Gravity in Reverse: The Tale of Albert Einstein’s ‘Greatest Blunder.’”反向重力:爱因斯坦艾伯 特的“最大错误”的故事
Calishain,Tara,and Rael Dornfest. Google Hacks:Tips & Tools for Smarter Searching,2nd Edition
Kane,Gordon. “The Mysteries of Mass.”
Fischetti,Mark. “Working Knowledge: Electronic Stability Control.”
U.S. General Services Administration.Executive Order 13423: Strengthening Federal Environmental,Energy,andTransportation Management
Kurzweil,Ray. “The Coming Merger of Mind and Machine.”
Gibbs,W. Wayt. “Untangling the Roots of Cancer.”
Gawande,Atul. “The Cost Conundrum: Health Care Costs in McAllen,Texas.”
Part.04
后面还想说的话
1.书籍 Cliffsnotes 丛书
2.网站
最后,推荐一些视频网站链接,寓教于乐,同学们背单词的间隙可以观看:
奥威尔在《政治和英语》一文中,列举了当时英语写作几大弊病:僵死的隐喻;东拼西凑,添枝加叶;装腔作势的措辞;不知所云的词语。虽然这里讲的是半个世纪以前的英语文风,但是读过奥威尔对这些问题的注解之后,就会发现在。
1.搜狐网络公开课,名校直通车
2.网易公开课国际名校
1.空中英语教室
2.经济学人(中文网,英文网站需要翻墙)
3.哈佛商业评论