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Assalaamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullah.

Truly, I hope that your writing assignments are becoming easier and that doing so helps you learn to use vivid, concrete and abstract words for your descriptions in your writings.

Students are to read pages 170-172; The pages that discuss briefly an auto-biography of Emily Dickinson before presenting her poem, A narrow Fellow in the Grass.

After reading the poem:

HW Assignment 6: Suggestions for writing:

2. Have you written poetry? Try it now, choosing as your subject an object or animal to describe -- something you (like Dickinson) have strong feelings about, such as a tree, a beloved cat, a loathed cockroach. Don't worry too much about meter and rhyme; concentrate instead on images.

HW Assignment 7: Continue reading - Emily Dickinson on Writing page 173

1. In what sense might a word "begin to live" when it's said?

Lastly, read pages 174-175; Additional Writing Topics:

HW Assignment 8: Complete all four writing assignments.

1. Describe another person in the room so clearly and unmistakably that when you read your description aloud, your subject will be recognized. (Be objective and refrain from insults in the description, please!)

2. Write three paragraphs describing one subject from each of the following categories. It will be up to you to make the general subject refer to the particular person, place or thing. Write at least one paragraph as an objective description and at least one as a subjective description. (Identify your method in each case, so that it can be seen how well you carry it out.)

Persons

A friend or roommate

One of your parents

A historic figure

Places

A college campus

A forest

A waiting room

Things

A dentist's drill

A foggy day

A train

See more from the list of persons, places, and things on page 174.

3. In a brief essay, describe your ideal place: an apartment, a bookstore, a dorm room, a vacation spot, a restaurant, a gym, a supermarket or convenience store, a garden, or a golf course. With concrete details, try to make the ideal seem actual.

4. Use a combination of narration and description to develop any one of the following topics:

My first day on the job

My first day at college

Returning to an old neighborhood

Getting lost

A brush with a celebrity

Delivering bad (or good) news