I have been thinking about a topic for my personal essay for about a week but I am still not sure what I really want to write about yet. I want to think about something interesting to write about without getting too personal. I have come up with a lot of ideas, but my current favorite idea is doing an essay on my lineage, which I can track back to the Mayflower. I know a lot about several other ancestors, the first house built in Westport for example (which is no longer standing) was settled by one of my other ancestors (not a decedent of my relatives that were on the Mayflower).
I am still considering other options, but this seems like something I could write the most about.
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Isn't this the piece you wrote in high school? Can you think of some ideas more closely related to your *own* experience? It doesn't have to be a big dramatic thing. I found a great essay I'll read in class tomorrow maybe about a son who realized he didn't agree with the way his father had taught him to play baseball. Were there any times in your life where you found yourself either rebelling against or appreciating in a new and deeper way something about how you were raised? Or, here's another idea: one student in my class this summer wrote a personal essay describing a bike ride he took, where he learned again the importance of living in the present. Or is there a person who's been influential in your life that you could write about? Or could you write about the difficulties or pleasures of learning to do something? Or about what an experience of failure taught you? (Look at that site This I Believe. What do you believe andhow did you come to believe it?)
ReplyDeleteI think that this essay is about how something small and insignificant can sentimentally be priceless. It would be nice if the writer told us what happened to his girlfriend, I mean if they really cared about each other then why did they break up?
ReplyDeleteKevin, if you post yr essay here, please send me an email so I'll know to check it out and make some comments. Or you can email it to me directly. I'm having a brain lapse as to what you said yesterday--were you going to go with original one? you didn't give it to me, did you? or email it already?
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