Gratitude
Eli For my letter, I wrote to my older cousin Billy. Although I saw him occasionally on holidays and Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, we were never close when I was younger. However, that…
Weekly Writing
Presentations
This week we had our final presentations. For my project I did it based on why letter is better than phones in some aspects using examples from my summers at…
Open Letters
This week in class we discussed open letters and the different types of uses. We then all read a few open letters from the book “Letters to a Young Writer”…
My Future
This week in class, we went into a different route than normal and focused on our potential future jobs in our careers. We took tests to see what subjects we…
Free Write 10/31/24
For the long-read final project I was thinking about writing about what makes letters so emotionally special. What is the reason behind the difference between hand-written letters and texts and…
Changing your voice.
After watching Can You Ever Forgive Me, I was faced with the question why Lee Israel was not able to change her voice in her own writing. If she was…
The Unknown about Jackie Robinson
This week in class, we individually read historical letters of note and shared them with each other. While this may seem like a basic activity, it was actually very interesting.…
My Pecha Kucha Presentation
This week in class be used pecha kuchas to do our presentations. These are a unique method of presentations where there is a select number of slides, in this case…
Letters in the Summer
After over a month of this class, the themes of letter writing can be applied in my personal life. Letter writing has a huge importance to me as that is…
Class Discussion Rings Familiar
This week in class we read love letters from World War Two. These letters are between soldiers fighting in foreign countries and women back on the home front. We read…