At this point, I want you to forget about making the perfect essay.
Today, write a letter to a trusted friend or family member
Some ideas to get you started:
- Ask for advice about your ideas and explain why you need the advice
- Explain why you are prepared for the next stage of your life
- Describe your concerns
- Tell about an even that shows your skills, including strengths and weaknesses
- Write questions you have about the next stage of your life and answer them
Write without consulting your notes. Write freely. If you feel like you've written all you can about an idea. Try tackling it from another angle. Let yourself get side-tracked. It is a letter to a friend, after all.
The goal is to produce as much as you can. It doesn't matter how good it is. Just push your ideas further.
Don't Stop Writing.
Reminder:
You need to make sure the assignments in your Writer's Notebook are completed.
This includes:
- 9/19 - Letter to a friend
- 9/18 - Reflective Questions about the texts
- 9/16 - Three Truths and Freewrite
- 9/11 - Angel Perez Advice/comments table and description of a time you were "less than perfect."
If you don't know what these are, scroll down to check the blog posts from those days, ask me, or email me.
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There is one change that's going to be made starting Monday.
Each day when you come to class and are waiting for your computers to load, we will take the first ten minutes of class to read.
"For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style." (Ben Jonson, Timber, or Discoveries, 1640)
I have reserved time for you to go to the library on Monday if you need a book (You will need your ID). You are also welcome to bring one of your own. Either way, you will need to bring a book to class every day starting Tuesday.
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There is one change that's going to be made starting Monday.
Each day when you come to class and are waiting for your computers to load, we will take the first ten minutes of class to read.
"For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style." (Ben Jonson, Timber, or Discoveries, 1640)
I have reserved time for you to go to the library on Monday if you need a book (You will need your ID). You are also welcome to bring one of your own. Either way, you will need to bring a book to class every day starting Tuesday.
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