Writing Assignment:
Family is perhaps the most frequently written about subject. Let’s face it, for better or worse, family is perhaps the biggest influence on any individual.
This week, you are going to compose a writing piece about family. More specifically, you are going to write about an experience with family or a family member left some impact on your life. Your piece should retell/recreate and explore this experience. (Think Denise Duhamel and her gerbil or Robert Hayden and his father or Theodore Roethke and his father’s waltzing).
Guidelines:
Family is perhaps the most frequently written about subject. Let’s face it, for better or worse, family is perhaps the biggest influence on any individual.
This week, you are going to compose a writing piece about family. More specifically, you are going to write about an experience with family or a family member left some impact on your life. Your piece should retell/recreate and explore this experience. (Think Denise Duhamel and her gerbil or Robert Hayden and his father or Theodore Roethke and his father’s waltzing).
Guidelines:
- you may write a poem or personal essay or even a short memoir (though we will be working on the memoir genre with Ms. McGee in January.
- If you write a poem, it must be at least 15-20 lines. Essays and stories should be in the two page range
- Whatever you write, the piece should contain vivid and descriptive details that help recreate the experience
- It’s the holiday season. Feel free to make it a holiday themed piece.
- Due Tuesday, December 21st
If you'd like to see more examples of writings about family, you can find poems about fathers here and poems about mothers here. The link leads you to Poets.org, a wonderful resource of professionally published poetry.
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