Monday, October 27

You read Stanton and reviewed Kincaid and hopefully those readings are giving you a more clear idea about Essays 3 & 4.

Your Blog for today was:
Blog 11: look in your closet, a drawer, your purse or wallet, your pockets or backback (if you are really into this you can look in boxes where you've put away things from your past)- write the stories of one or two of the things you find there.

and your blog for Wednesday is
Blog 12: Write about a photograph; this does not need to be a complete piece, just write, maybe ask some questions about what was going on, or what happened before or since to the people in the photo - or to the place or things.

These exercises should also help you write into a useful place for this assignment.

For Wednesday: bring several photos to class

You will do some in-class work with these.

Also - do the writing about objects listed for in-class today (which we didn't do as a group) and we will pick up on it on Wednesday. That is - in your writing journal => List objects that are important to you; put dates beside them (for when they came into your life), name any people they are associated with; list any experiences they are associated with - then read through and see if there are any patterns in what connects you to things.

Readings for Wednesday are Cofer, "Silent Dancing," 154; Lott, "Brothers" Sorry for the gloss on the Lott piece - maybe a little more than you asked for. These are two more examples of using "things" as a center of your essay.

The revised/final draft for essay 1 &2 will definitely be due Nov 6. See you on Wednesday.