Respond to one of the non-fiction prompts at Poets & Writers. 400 + words please, and respond to two classmates by next Friday. |
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"But in the main, I feel like a brown bag of miscellany propped against a wall. Against a wall In company with other bags, white, red and yellow. Pour out the contents, and there is discovered a jumble of small, things priceless and worthless. A first-water diamond, an empty spool, bits of broken glass, lengths of string, a key to a door long since crumbled away, a rusty knife-blade, old shoes saved for a road that never was and never will be, a nail bent under the weight of things too heavy for any nail, a dried flower or two still a little fragrant. in your hand is the brown bag. On the ground before you is the jumble it held-so much like the jumble in the bags could they be emptied that all might be dumped in a single heap and the bags refilled without altering the content of any greatly. A bit of colored glass more or less would not matter. Perhaps that is how the Great Stuffer of Bags filled them in the first place-who knows?" -- Zora Neale Hurston Write a post in which you create a similar metaphor. "But in the main, I feel like a ___________________________ Pour out the contents and there is discovered a jumble of small things priceless and worthless. [Create your list . . . You can use the final lines or not -- continue to play with similes and metaphors in your list as Hurston does. This should feel like writing poetry, even though it's "prose") I don't really have a word limit, particularly if you don't use the final lines after the list of what's in your bag. By next class, respond to two classmates. Sherman Alexie writes with a lot of detail about his first memories of reading. What are your first memories of books? Of being read to? Of reading? Answer in a post of approx. 100 - 200 words long. You can reference Alexie's essay if you'd like, but it's not necessary. I do expect complete grammatically correct sentences, so you may wish to compose your response in Word first. Before your next class, please respond to two of your classmates with 25 - 50 words. |