<p>What are some good references for the SAT essay? Like Famous Historical/ Classical Literature or Quotations that have broad or several themes?</p>
<p>Just some recommended reading and studying. :]</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>If you want something different… in my March SAT I used Kaffir Boy and a psychology study (Richard LaPiere’s 1934 study). I think using somthing so different like a psychology study is… well… different. Who knows if it helps or not 
But I got a 12 with those two.</p>
<p>Other ideas I had but didn’t use: Antigone (the french version - you can use the context of how he wrote it OR its actual literary content), Waiting for Godot, Pygmalion (lots of uses in this too! even his writing style, how he didn’t use apostrophes or whatever), “Seward’s Folly” (like William Seward’s buying Alaska…but I bet a lot of people use this).</p>
<p>Which Essay prompt did you get?</p>
<p>And congrats on the awesome essay score!</p>
<p>Really, the pedigree of the references you use isn’t nearly as important as how you connect them to your thesis and the prompt.</p>
<p>For January, I had two body paragraphs that just developed one personal example and got a 12. The first time, I had three body paragraphs that dipped into deontology and moral relativism and only got a 10.</p>
<p>Thanks! I had the politeness one - and I think two body paragraphs is better than three, because you can get more in depth. Length >>> everything though :)</p>
<p>@ pulalala:</p>
<p>You seem very well-versed for a Junior in high school.
Did you get the Psychology Study from an AP Psych class?
How did you come across your references, and how were you planning to apply them to impoliteness? (After looking a few of them up, I’m not sure how you would approach the topic with these references)</p>