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Let’s Play
A Unit of Study on the
Personal Essay
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Looking in my head….
Inquiry
Teacher as writer
and inquirer
Authenticity: what do writers do?
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The personal essay
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Best Guesses: What is a
personal essay?
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Immersion
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What is the Personal Essay?
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A type of creative nonfiction
~Annie Dillard
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…presents the reader with one person’s view on some aspect of
human experience. Katherine Paterson
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…the most important form of nonfiction. It allows an individual writer to speak to individual readers.
--Donald Murray
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What about the essay?
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"One damned thing after another: a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.” Huxley
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"an irregular, indigested piece, not a regular and orderly performance.” Samuel Johnson
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Edward Hoagland: essay as a"greased pig."
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The essay is, and has been, all over the map. There's nothing you cannot do with it; no subject matter is forbidden, no structure is proscribed. You get to make up your own structure every time, a structure that arises from the materials and best contains them. The material is the world itself, which, so far, keeps on keeping on.(Introduction to The Best American Essays 1988, Ticknor & Fields)
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What it’s not• A
personal narrative
• A memoir
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Idea Generating
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Stephen King on writing:
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair – the sense that you can never completely put on the page what’s in your mind and heart.
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Stephen King on writing:
You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world.
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Stephen King on writing:
Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.
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Give it a go
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https://sites.google.com/site/quatereadwriteworkshop
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