Day Fifty-Five / 12.02.10

We started with a vocabulary quiz. Then we responded to the following quote by George Saunders: “I loved [Thomas Wolfe’s] big-heartedness and the way, apparently, he had just taken his life and made a huge book out of it." We wrote on the following topics:

Does this “making your life public” make for good writing?

Can inspiration happen to us from the daily things in life?

Do you write about your life (journal, poems, etc.)?

Then we corrected our peers' Rough Drafts. Finally, we read the book The Tie Man's Miracle, by Steven Schnur.