Exemplification Essay Readings

Lesson 25
 Descriptive
Writing Process Narrative Essay
Essay

Common
Exemplification
Personal Essay Writing
Essay
Mistakes
 Writer’s Prompt
• There is a party at a friends house this Friday
that has been hyped for weeks.
• Everybody who is anybody is going.
• You’re grounded.
• Persuade your parents to let you go to the
party. Give plenty of examples.
 Assignment
• Read Whitman’s “There Was A Child Went
Forth” page 180 of Great Writing

• Answer #1 and #2 under Language and Form

 Assignment Review
• In GW , Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”,
page 534
– Answer #2 – Meaning
– Answer #1 - Language
 Jonathan Swift
• pseudonym Isaac Bickerstaff
• (1667 - 1745)
• (born Nov. 30, 1667, Dublin, Ire.—died Oct. 19, 1745,
Dublin) Anglo-Irish author, who was the foremost
prose satirist in the English language. Besides the
celebrated novel Gulliver's Travels (1726), he wrote
such shorter works as A Tale of a Tub (1704) and “A
Modest Proposal” (1729).
Hip Hop Modest Proposal
 “The Case Against Chores”
by Jane Smiley
• Great Writing , page 564
– Write and essay analyzing one of your own work
experiences, either in the home or on the job. Do
you think you felt that you were “alienated labor”
in the sense that Smiley uses that term? Relate
specific examples that shape your answer.