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"

Write a journal entry about something you believe in. Write to discover. Write to uncover. You don't have to have your ideas in perfect form. This is still a journal, not a personal essay.