Day 3
Thurs. Sept. 3
Intro to scenes
Share scenes from Short Cuts and Here is New York
Intro to observation and “effect”
Practice observations on excerpts of Home definitions
“The Game of Things”
Homework
➤ essay 1: portrait of a place due next class
When you are done, please upload your essay as a .doc or .docx file to our shared Box folder.
Happy exploring! Don’t forget to reread the instructions before you go out.
➤ write a scene based on a micro-poem
Choose one of the “micro-poems” that you or you classmates “wrote” in class (pick your favorite!) and write a short scene (4-5 sentences or so) using the three details in that poem. You can keep the details in the same order, or change the order; it’s up to you. Upload your scene to our shared Box folder.
➤ (Optional reading in Chinese)
If you like, and if you’re able, read Eileen Chang’s 《公寓生活记趣》. This is also a “Portrait of a Place.” How is the way she writes about her apartment building similar and different from the way Joseph Mitchell writes about McSorley’s, and how Susan Orlean writes about her hair salon?
