Blog post #1: Your neighborhood or home
(Before writing this post, read Annie Dillard’s and Paule Marshall’s pieces in the course reader.)
You have two options for this assignment:
1. Modelling your post on Dillard’s chapters from An American Childhood, share a memory of your childhood explorations of your neighborhood or how your sense of your city’s history affected your understanding of your place in it.
2. Drawing on Marshall’s essay on the kitchen for your inspiration, write about a room in your childhood home. You should emphasize its significance to your life through explaining the regular, everyday events that happened in it.
In either case, you may additionally reflect on this place from the perspective of an adult, but this is optional.
Your post should make an argument about this place or space in your life. It should be between 250 and 500 words.
Your post will be graded on its thoughtfulness, the quality of writing, and the originality of argument.
You must post your entry on the class blog by 5 p.m. on Friday, August 11.
You have two options for this assignment:
1. Modelling your post on Dillard’s chapters from An American Childhood, share a memory of your childhood explorations of your neighborhood or how your sense of your city’s history affected your understanding of your place in it.
2. Drawing on Marshall’s essay on the kitchen for your inspiration, write about a room in your childhood home. You should emphasize its significance to your life through explaining the regular, everyday events that happened in it.
In either case, you may additionally reflect on this place from the perspective of an adult, but this is optional.
Your post should make an argument about this place or space in your life. It should be between 250 and 500 words.
Your post will be graded on its thoughtfulness, the quality of writing, and the originality of argument.
You must post your entry on the class blog by 5 p.m. on Friday, August 11.
1 Comments:
Wow! Sounds like a great assignment!
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