Friday, May 22, 2009
Friday, May 15, 2009
HW: Week of May 18
Due Friday, May 15
- Read through page 176 of Faulkner's As I Lay Dying.
- Draft of This I Believe essay. We'll be in the lab for peer review on Monday with time to edit your draft. No reading due today.
- Read through page 197 of Faulkner's As I Lay Dying.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
IN CLASS THURSDAY
Read three of the following samples of "This I Believe" essays. If you click on these, you can listen to each writer reading his/her own essay.
- Elvia Bautista's "Remembering All the Boys"
- Warren Christopher's "A Shared Moment of Trust"
- John W. Fountain's "The God Who Embraced Me"
- Temple Grandin's "Seeing in Beautiful, Precise Pictures"
- Ernesto Haibi's "Untold Stories of Kindness"
- Lee Shulman's "Just Like Pastrami"
- OPTIONAL: By scrolling to the bottom of the page, you will find a link to "More Essays" giving you eight additional links, each with many options. You may want to start with Eve Ensler's "The Power and Mystery of Naming Things"
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