Essay Assignments

All posts will be DUE by 12:00 PM on the Wednesdays before class, in order to allow time for fellow students to read and respond to the blogpost. After you email the posts to me in .doc format, I will post them to the blog. 

All of the essays (excluding Saner) can be found in your Touchstone Anthology.

1/23
Doty’s “Return to Sender,” pg. 152---Pilar Dougall
Beard’s “The Fourth State of Matter,” pg. 1---Dominique Delgado

1/30
Levy’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” pg. 290---Justin Richards
Safekeeping---Luke Holland
 
2/6
Sedaris’s “Repeat After Me,” pg. 443---Victoria Farrar
Miller’s “The Date,” pg. 381---Shelby Marra

2/13
Grealy’s “Mirrorings,” pg. 209---Ella Wilcox
Lopate’s “Portrait of My Body,” pg. 299---Stella Ruvalcaba 

2/20
Harrison’s “Present Tense Africa,”pg. 220---Makenzie Thiel
Lopez’s “Flight,” pg. 308---Joshua Morrison

2/27
Berry’s “Getting Along With Nature,” pg. 17---Chelsey Wade 
Kingsolver’s “High Tide in Tucson,” pg. 265---Rose Wolf

3/6
Bowden’s “Torch Song,” pg. 56---Chas Jennings 

3/20
Wallace’s “Consider the Lobster,” pg. 525---Tam Dinh

3/27
Dinty W. Moore’s “Son of Mr. Green Jeans,” pg. 389---Samantha Sanchez
Purpura’s “Autopsy Report,” pg. 405---Perry Kantor

4/3
Biss’s “The Pain Scale,” pg. 28---Shannen Bremner
About a Mountain---Lisa Hesterberg

4/10 
Reg Saner’s “Technically Sweet," pt. 1 (available on d2l)---TBA 
Reg Sander's "Technically Sweet," pt. 2 (available on d2l)---Azia Walker 

4/17
TBA