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The Wood: Then and Now

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You need to talk about a personal event that happened in the past, such as an argument with parents, or broke up with girlfriend. Talk about how that event effect you, and compare and contrast the view of that event now and past.


 


College Writing I Spring 2020 Unit I—Remembering an event Background: In this first essay, students are to consider an event in the past that has significance today. The objective is to begin to think about writing as a way to organize information and communicate a point of view or significance in an engaging way. In this genre, details and especially sensory experience convey the significance along with explanation of significance. Objectives: ● A well-organized narrative ● Descriptive details ● An explanation of significance ● A thoughtful organization Directions This essay will describe an event from the past that, in your view, had an impact on some aspect of your life. In some ways, you are describing what happened, and explaining why you think the event had an important consequence. You should consider some features of good story telling: building suspense, time sequence, important details such as names of characters, names of places, movement in space and time, sensory experience such as sights, sounds, smells, and physical sensations. Try not to choose an experience that could bring up re-lived emotions or distress. Requirements ● A focus on one event that had a meaningful result. Avoid complex experience lasting years. ● Describe the event so that the reader fully understands what took place. ● Describe the significance in such a way that the reader fully understands the meaning the experience has for you today. Note that in some narratives the significance can be strongly implied through the action described in the story with minimal explanation. ● Plenty of descriptive details, including feelings and thoughts. Length: at least three pages, but no longer than five. Due Dates F. 2/21/20: First Drafts due. Please bring 3 copies for peer edit. The peer edit is an in-class assignment that is required to received participation and writing assignment credit. No late assignments will be accepted for credit. F. 2/28/20: Turn in final draft. Please follow first-page and format guidelines. Print-outs only please

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The Wood: Then and Now
I was six. The place was familiar and yet not particularly so. The wood had been, for years (at least as long as I could remember as far back as I was a child), a place well known yet not at all. I was warned – by mom, dad, older sister and, actually, almost about everyone around
– not to stray so far away from home lest I get lost in that wood. Intrigued as I was as a child, I always had, in mind (yet also in so many illustrated storybooks mom had bought for us to read in summer), so many pictures of places, animals, and plants hidden and mostly unknown in a wood not so far away from home, at least in distance, yet was so in imagination. The wood always invited a look – such a look! - I always saw in mom’s and dad’s eyes once I hinted – only hinted
– of getting close. There was, well, something in that look mom and dad shared. I could not tell, then, what it was. It was not, for sure, just a warning. There was, I came to know later, something much deeper no one ever except mom and dad knew about, something both shared – alone – in that wood.
In spring, pleasant smells hailed from our wood (for so such wood came to be called among us, I mean our family). That was when I could notice – still do yet from a different perspective – some unusual activity all around. The whole universe seemed – still seem – to be moved by an inner, hidden activity: felt and smelt yet not seen, seeping not pervading. That activity seemed to spark some parallel activity I could see in mom’s and dad’s movements,
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bodies, gestures and, not least, eyes. There was always a connection, I always belie...
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