At-Home Activity: Writing and Objects (Due Thurs., 1/27)

For Thursday's class, we're going to move on from seeing examples of photographs about objects to reading some examples of writing about them.

Just so you know, you have the ability to view the first project's official requirements. They are posted under the menu at the top of the blog: Project Requirements, but you can read them right here, too. So please, take a look at that first, and then move on to these two readings:

• "Ode to an Orange," by Larry Woiwode
• "Life without Go Go Boots," by Barbara Kingsolver

There will be no survey, but I want you to bring some writing to class. For both of these pieces, I want you to write down the following (and typing it would really be helpful):

• For each essay, what are some of the most vivid details (the ones you could really picture in your mind and "see")?
• For each essay, what do you think the writer was trying to focus on, exactly? There are lots of details and bits used for different reasons, but what do you think the "real" subject matter was that the writers were exploring here?

That's it: read the assignment, read the pieces, and bring writing to class in response to the above. See you Thursday!