If one of the options for the final project is an audio recorded story, maybe one of the exercises would be to listen to podcasts about food/memory/identity-or something non-food related that gets to the interesting way the story is told. I suppose, too, much of the ways students imagine creative writing around food and memory will emerge from the reading selections you prepare for them, which you've already thought about. You might think of changing "person" to "family member" for bullet 1. In my opinion, of the bulleted list above, bullets 3, 4, and 5 seem to prepare the students well for writing about food, family, memory, and identity. I think all of the bulleted items above get the students practicing creative non-fiction. You've clearly identified those and the final project sounds great. So if the exercises build up to the assessment, then the students are always the target of the course. Ultimately, the exercises should challenge students but give them some preparation for the largest "assessment." Not that assessment is the goal itself, but that the assessment chosen (in this case, the final project) itself embodies a set of skills or lessons that the students are learning and practicing. I mean, there are so many ways that, in my opinion, the goals of a course should shape the exercises teachers choose. Now from the perspective of a chef on his first day on the job out of culinary Januat 3:19 PM Now describe it from the perspective of a new father. Describe it from the perspective of a elderly woman whose husband has just died, but do so without mentioning the husband explicitly. Choose two or three itemsĪnd write a story about why they are in your refrigerator. List the contents of your refrigerator (either in your dorm room, or at home)."In Grandma's Kitchen," or "Craving the Food of Childhood" or "The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie I've Ever Had. Spend ten minutes writing a short story based on the title _. ![]() Now pick it up and move it around in your hands. Write your associations, memories, ideas, descriptions for 3 minutes, based on sight only. Try to write a portrait of a place by describing a food, a meal, or an eating experience.Try to write a portrait of a person by describing a food, a meal, or an eating experience.I have some early ideas, but would really love more of them from any of you who like to write, teach writing, have taken great writing classes, or just have ideas about how to spur good writing, particularly in the genre of creative nonfiction. I'm trying to structure each class around some sharing, reading, and writing, and so would like to have a whole bank of writing exercises to rely on as I put together the class schedule. As the spring semester approaches, I'm doing my best to plan for the small seminar I'll be teaching called Eating and Memory (described previously in this post).īecause I got such helpful feedback and guidance last time (thanks, SW!) when I asked for help, I figured I'd try it again, this time with less a focus on readings than on writing exercises.
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