<p>What do you guys think the prompt is going to be for Saturday's essay?</p>
<p>I don’t have a clue 
but I’m hoping it has something to do with perseverance</p>
<p>A prompt that is flexible to almost any example would be perfect!</p>
<p>What are your thoughts on using multiple examples? I usually use only 1 and develop and explain it in detail.</p>
<p>I was only able to find one:</p>
<p>Prompt 2</p>
<p>"Do you ever find that young people, when they have left school, not only forget most of what they have learnt (that is only to be expected), but forget also, or betray that they have never really known, how to tackle a new subject for themselves? Are you often bothered by coming across grown-up men and women who seem unable to distinguish between a book that is sound, scholarly, and properly documented, and one that is, to any trained eye, very conspicuously none of these things? Or who cannot handle a library catalogue? Or who, when faced with a book of reference, betray a curious inability to extract from it the passages relevant to the particular question which interests them?</p>
<p>Do you often come across people for whom, all their lives, a “subject” remains a “subject,” divided by watertight bulkheads from all other “subjects,” so that they experience very great difficulty in making an immediate mental connection between let us say, algebra and detective fiction, sewage disposal and the price of salmon–or, more generally, between such spheres of knowledge as philosophy and economics, or chemistry and art? "
-Dorothy L Sayers “The Lost Tools of Learning”</p>
<p>Assignment:</p>
<p>Are today’s high school students too unfamiliar with Western literature? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.</p>
<p>from where did you get it</p>
<p>anyupdates on sat essay ?</p>
<p>I just finished my SAT, the prompt was not that flexible :/</p>
<p>Any helpful clues?</p>
<p>mine was something related to modern inventions , i guess it was easy</p>
<p>Mine was basically “should leaders be judged on their accomplishments or their treatment of their people?”</p>
<p>I wrote they should be judged based on treatment, using Napoleon, Stalin, and Jack from Lord of the Flies as my examples.</p>
<p>@efeens44 I had the same prompt and used Hitler and Gandhi. Hopefully I explained them well enough and there weren’t too generic…</p>
<p>i wrote they should be judged based on treatment and i used Machiavelli’s “The Prince” as well as “The Analects of Confucius” and a nice hefty conclusion to substantiate my stance on the issue.</p>
<p>I tried to be specific with Stalin and Napoleon because those seemed really general and probably widely used examples. I interpreted Jack from LotF a certain way though so i can definitely seeing that being at least a little unique. i also used every single line which i was happy about haha.</p>
<p>I used my swim coach and dr.house from the show house. I think it was successful</p>
<p>How did people feel about the “are firmly held opinions reasonable” one?</p>
<p>I felt pretty good about that one; I used examples from Fahrenheit 451, “Cry, the Beloved Country”, and the discrimination against African Americans.</p>
<p>Hi all! I’m new to the Forum.</p>
<p>Anyway, my prompt was “Should leaders be judged on how well they treat people?” It was an okay prompt. I used examples of and later compared and contrasted Hitler and The President of the United States.</p>
<p>I’ve been trying to improve my essay score all summer. I used sophisticated vocabulary, varied sentence structures, and varied my use of punctuation marks (something my english teacher said I needed to improve on). Hopefully my hard work led me to at least a score 7> .</p>
<p>@efeens44 Using Jack from Lord of the Flies was genius! I wish I would have thought of that.</p>
<p>Used Gandhi and MLK.</p>
<p>Trite but it works…</p>