AP Literature Review Template

1.Title:
2. Author:
3. Plot Outline (list 10 –15 key events in plot):
4. Key Themes / Quote to Support Theme (list theme and 1 or 2 quotes to support theme):
5. Literary Elements / Techniques Used by Author (list element/technique and a brief explanation of how it was used in the work:

Key Points
* Team work - “many heads are better than one”
* Reciprocity - “do for others what you hope will be done for you”
* Concise - “brevity is the sole of wit”
* Do some research - “seek and you will find”
* If you do a good job, you will have more friends - “Be liked and you will never want”
* Let’s all get a “5” - “…reach for the stars”

Senioritis

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Life Blog

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For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. ~Fr. Alfred D'Souza

Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting. ~Dr. Seuss

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may;Old Time is still a-flying;And this same flower that smiles today,Tomorrow will be dying.~Robert Herrick

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. ~Dorothy Canfield Fisher

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanese Proverb

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