Homework. Read Le Guin Chapter 7 & 8 (in the file name Le Guin). Do Exercise 7, parts 1, 2, 3, & 4

Paper. Description: 1. Read Bloom chapter 5 (in the file name Bloom chapter 5). Based on readings (Bloom chapter 5, Reading Packet C(in the file) ), writing a first draft paper "Writing about palaces".

Details of paper requirements: READING

1. Read Chapter 5 in Bloom’s Fact and Artifact on “Writing About Places.” Please read the entire chapter carefully. At this point, no research is required. However, if you want to look up information about your place, please be sure to properly cite your sources using MLA.

2. Read all of “Reading Packet C” (in the file name Packet C)

First Draft of Assignment Two

After reading Chapter 5 in Bloom and the readings from “Reading Packet C”, write an essay about a place or places (6-7 pages MLA stytle). You may write about any place you have been, lived, known, traveled to, or grown up. It can be as small as a room and as large as a city or state. As you should notice from the readings in the packet, writing about a place doesn’t just mean describing a town or neighborhood; writing about place means caring about place, about the significance of our environments and how our identities and lives are shaped by and shape the places we inhabit. This will be your draft.

IMPORTANT NOTE: When writing about place, keep in mind that this needs to go well beyond describing a place. What a place looks like only will get you so far. It’s important to think about the meaning of a place, its importance to you or to people, its relevance to the economy or the environment. As you read the samples, pay attention to the way these writers find meaning in the places they write about and the ways they work to make those places relevant to their readers as well. Liking a place is a good start; figuring out WHY you like it and what it has to do with you as a person (or with identity, humanity, social structures, cultures, etc.) will make it interesting and worth writing about.

Instructor Draft of Assignment Two (This will be finished later when first draft done and receive comments from classmates)

After receiving feedback from your classmates, you should consider their comments carefully. You do not have to do what they suggest, but trust your peers: don’t worry that they may not be expert writers. As reviewers of your work, they are not acting as writers but as readers, and all readings are valid. Please follow the instructions there exactly.