April
1: *small group workshop: bring Creative Essay to
workshop
3: Essay Packet 2 (emuonline) Read selections:
Red
Sunday
Mint Snowball
Mute Dancers
(skip some essays)
Teaching a Stone to Talk
8: Bring your own essay 2 assignment to share/discuss/workshop
10: [no class meeting]
15: TBA
17: *Creative Essay(s) Due 3-4 pages total
*Publishing
Project Due
Final discussions
and assignments
Essay Writing Assignment 2
Creative Essay Writing Exercise:
Memory, Person, Place
1.
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.
2.
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.
Creative Essay Writing Exercise:
Memory, Person, Place
