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WOC190 Fall 2020 Session 1

Day 2

Tues. Sept. 1

  • Share favorite details from McSorley’s

  • Intro to Essay 1: Portrait of a Place

  • Share Home definitions

Homework

➤ READ INSTRUCTIONS FOR ESSAY 1

Read the essay instructions carefully, and make sure to plan time this weekend to go exploring! This project will be more meaningful if you give yourself plenty of time to do it.

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E. B. White, "Here is New York"
E. B. White, "Here is New York"

E. B. White’s classic essay published in 1948, one of the most famous literary essays about New York City.

➤ READ EXCERPTS FROM “HERE IS NEW YORK” AND “SHORT CUTS”

As you read, find one good example of each of these things, and come to class ready to share it:

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Susan Orlean, "Shortcuts"
Susan Orlean, "Shortcuts"

Journalist Susan Orlean paints a portrait of her neighborhood hair salon.

  • abstract language, whatever you understand that to mean

  • concrete language, whatever you understand that to mean

  • a scene you particularly like

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