Model Creative Writing about the importance of words

Use this doc to learn more about the writing assignment you will be doing in response to Welty's writing and your own memories of learning about “the value of reading, learning to read and write, or interpreting the world through language and carefully chosen words." Use this document to help you PLAN this writing assignment.   Final draft of this writing will be due by Thursday, 12/22.  In-class work time will be given during the week.

Other writings to reference by Eudora Welty for this assignment are linked below (your choice on reading these):

"The Making of a Writer: Listening in the Dark" excerpted from One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty (1984)

excerpt from One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty
(this piece contains the "Listening to Words" excerpt that we read together in class, so it gives you a more rounded picture of where these ideas came from for her...)

Vocabulary words

Vocabulary words for this unit are defined in the "Choosing Words" packet and the glossary of Everyday Use.  Use THIS DOCUMENT  to record definitions and do activities to help you to see application of these words (a printed version of this doc was handed out in class).  Please have this packet completed (you do not need to do the last page) by Monday, 12/19-- prepare to show me a start on this packet by Friday, 12/16.