Exemplification Essay Readings

Lesson 25

Writing Process Descriptive Essay Narrative Essay

Exemplification Essay Personal Essay

Common Writing

Mistakes

Writer’s Prompt

• There is a party at a friends house this Friday that has been hyped for weeks.

• Everybody who is anybody is going.• You’re grounded.• Persuade your parents to let you go to the

party. Give plenty of examples.

Assignment

• Read Whitman’s “There Was A Child Went Forth” page 180 of Great Writing

• Answer #1 and #2 under Language and Form

Assignment Review

• In GW , Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”, page 534– Answer #2 – Meaning– Answer #1 - Language

Jonathan Swift• pseudonym Isaac Bickerstaff• (1667 - 1745)• (born Nov. 30, 1667, Dublin, Ire.—died Oct. 19, 1745,

Dublin) Anglo-Irish author, who was the foremost prose satirist in the English language. Besides the celebrated novel Gulliver's Travels (1726), he wrote such shorter works as A Tale of a Tub (1704) and “A Modest Proposal” (1729).

Hip Hop Modest Proposal

“The Case Against Chores” by Jane Smiley

• Great Writing , page 564– Write and essay analyzing one of your own work

experiences, either in the home or on the job. Do you think you felt that you were “alienated labor” in the sense that Smiley uses that term? Relate specific examples that shape your answer.