Day 3
Mon. Mar. 27
Share Place essay adventures
Practice observation on a Place essay
Practice observations on excerpts of Home definitions
“The Game of Details”
Homework
➤ Write 10 observations on a classmate’s essay
Read a classmate’s Place essay (any one you like) and write 10 sentences about it, each sentence 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” in our SharePoint folder.
➤ Read lists of 3 details, pick favorites, come ready to share observations
Pick one of the lists of 3 random details that your classmates generated during our in-class exercise. (Pick one that interests you especially, or that you especially like.) Come ready to share your answers to the questions: Why do you think the “author” of this list chose those three details — why do they go together? And why do you think the “author” chose to put them in that order?
➤ 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? Be ready to share your thoughts next class.
In addition, next class be ready to share your example of:
abstract language (whatever you understand that to mean)
concrete language (whatever you understand that to mean)
➤ Sign up to read out loud
Please sign up for a slot to read out loud by clicking here and adding your name to the document.
