Essay Examples Question

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<p>After reading the post How to Write a 12 Essay in Just 10 Days and with the SAT coming up in Jan, I thought I'd start memorizing a bank of potential examples for the essay. I compiled a list of my required reading from 6th to 11th grade:
Where the red fern grows
Tom sawyer
Watsons go to Birmingham
Call of the wild
Animal farm
Odessey
Romeo and Juliet
Women of the silk
Midsummer nights dream
To kill a mockingbird
All quiet on the western front
Lord of the flies
Twelfth night
Pride and prejudice
Ethan frome
Scarlet letter
Huck finn
Crucible
Farewell to manzanar
Diary of anne frank
Flowers for Algernon
Giver
Grapes of wrath
Hatchet
Hobbit
Outsiders
Holes
Secret life of bees
The cay
Wrinkle in time</p>

<p>Questions:
If I sparknotes'd these novels (I'm thinking that they should come back to me quickly), would they be sufficient for any given prompt? </p>

<p>Also, are any of these useless in an essay and not worth re-remembering?</p>

<p>I read the consolidated lists of examples. Is there a need for my knowing about 1984, great gatsby, etc. in addition to those mentioned above? If so, would sparknotesing them be enough to understand them enough to use in an essay?</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>Babbit - Sinclair Lewis
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Washington Square - Henry James
Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck</p>

<p>And yes, I think Sparknotes is sufficient for SAT essay examples. Once you know a threshold amount about the story’s tie-in with the prompt, how you present your analysis becomes more important than how much you know.</p>

<p>Also, I’ve found that historical examples tend to be very flexible (in terms of how you can craft your argument), so that may be your second option should you run out of literary examples.</p>

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<p>thanks eliane. Anyone else?</p>

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<p>bump…</p>