Day 3

Tues. Mar. 30

• Share Place essay adventures

• Practice observation on a Place essay

• Practice observations on excerpts of Home definitions

• “The Game of Details”

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Homework

➤ Write 10 observations on a classmate’s essay

Read a classmate’s Place essay and write 10 sentences about it beginning with the words “I noticed…”

Type your sentences in a Word document and upload the document to the folder called “3-Observations on classmate’s Place essay” on Box.

➤ Write 2 scenes

1) 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.

Type up your scene and upload it to the folder “4-Scene based on micro-poem” on Box.

2) Choose a scene from your Portrait of a Place essay, and rewrite it, changing the order in which you present the details in that scene. Don’t just cut-and-paste the sentences; write a new paragraph, presenting the details in a different order.

Copy the original scene, and the rewritten scene, onto a single Word document and upload it to the folder “5-Rewritten scenes from Place Essay” on Box.

➤ Reread Susan Orlean and E.B. White excerpts

Choose your favorite scene from either of these two essays, and think about why you like it. What does the author include in the scene? What does the author not include in the scene? Why are the images (or other details) presented in the order that they are?

In addition, find at least one example of:

• abstract language (whatever you understand that to mean)

• concrete language (whatever you understand that to mean)