PRESENTATION HANDOUT | “Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.” ~ Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

PRESENTATION POWERPOINT | “I want to run. To do what I always do, have always done, for the last five years of my life. Escape, flee into the shadows. But this time, I stand my ground. I'm tired of running.” ― Marie Lu, Prodigy

RESEARCH PAPER | “Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. ” ~ Susan Sontag

AP OPEN QUESTION PROMPT I | “Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.” ― Anaïs Nin, Incest: From a Journal of Love

AP OPEN QUESTION PROMPT II | “...if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.” ― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

PROSE CLOSE READING I - CHART

PROSE CLOSE READING I - ESSAY | "Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.” ― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

PROSE CLOSE READING II - CHART

PROSE CLOSE READING II - ESSAY | "My mom said I was an escapist at heart . . . that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one. It’s true that I’ve always been able to yank myself out of this world and plunge myself into another.” ― Amy Plum, Die for Me

POETRY CLOSE READING I - CHART

POETRY CLOSE READING I - ESSAY | “Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these.” ― T.S. Eliot

POETRY CLOSE READING II - CHART

POETRY CLOSE READING II - ESSAY | “Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS - SET I | “There are no safe choices. Only other choices.” ~ Libba Bray, "A Great and Terrible Beauty"

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS - SET II | “When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.” ~ Philip Pullman, "The Amber Spyglass"

FINAL REFLECTION | “Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.” ~ Poppy Z. Brite

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