Thursday March 28

Focus on the first part of Essay Packet 1, the short essays. We will pick up with the rest of the packet next week. For next week, write your blog on the Essay Packet 1, particularly the essays by D'Agata and Dillard.

Also, another exercise:

Creative Essay Writing Exercise

Choose one of the following to focus on:

  A memory from childhood;

  A particular person from childhood or who has been intriguing to you or   important in your life;

  An animal, place, phenomenon that intrigues you and you want to investigate further.

Then, write a detailed description that evokes every sense through the language you use to show this memory/person/phenomenon, without using the pronoun “I”; write at least 1-2 paragraphs.

Next continue or revise or expand what you have to turn it into a whole essay. You can add “I” or other characters and/or bring in other elements that will add to the work.