Starter: Pair share Journal #8. After reading your
partner's entry, try to identify how they are characterizing their relationship
with place. Have a brief discussion about your project ideas thus far for
your own sense of place essay.
Goals for Today
- Understand
the four elements of nature writing
- Define
(and practice!) the "Grand Style" of rhetoric
- Critique
Edward Abbey's personal place essays for the elements of Nature Writing
2. INSPIRATION JOURNAL #9:
Call this entry "The Grand
Style"
Write a passage to describe your place (or
any place) using the Grand Style.
"Strike the Senses!"
Sensory Images!! Figurative Language!! Rich Details!!
3. Assignment for today and tomorrow:
Here is an optional template for organizing your notes
for parts 2 and 3.
My advice is to try to get done with the
readings and Part 1 (annotation) today and tonight to buy yourself time to
start drafting your essay tomorrow after doing Parts 2 and 3 with a partner.
Does this mean you might have HOMEWORK? Your choice. Assignment due at midnight tomorrow.