SECOND LETTER (Assignment)

Second Letter
Due: 10/7 @ 8:30 a.m.

In this, your second, letter, tell your friend some stories about your family and your friends that helped you learn something(s) about life, love, and/or yourselves. Use as inspiration Charlie’s description of his family members on page 5 and what he learns about his Aunt Helen (which is still technically a mystery); the sister-boyfriend incident on page 11 where he learns about standing up to bullies; the heartwarming M*A*S*H* final-episode scene between pages 16-19 where he learns that his family has it better than most and that his dad cries; his conversation with Sam and Patrick on pages 21-23 where he learns about girls; his first real party on pages 34-38 where he learns what it means to be high and that others think of him as a wallflower (and what that means); and his car rides with Sam and Patrick on pages 33 and 38-39 where he learns what it means to feel infinite.

You are not required to emulate any of Charlie’s language specifically, though you are free to model his sentence structure if it helps you find your voice. Specifically, then, your assignment is to:

-Tell a family-related story/anecdote or give a family description that somehow leads to you understanding something you didn’t before. Tell the story; explain its significance.
-Tell a friend-related story/anecdote or give a description of your friend(s) (or you with your friend(s)) that somehow leads to you understanding something you didn’t before. Tell the story; explain its significance.
-Find the best way for you to work in your definition of what it means to feel infinite (the one we wrote in class). You could tack this onto the end of one of the above stories (if it’s relevant); you could tell a new story that relates; or you could simply admit to your friend that you’re reading a book for class that mentions it, and you wanted to share your definition and what it meant to you.

Unlike the first letter, this one needs to be a bit longer. No less than 150 words, probably more.

Review the requirements for all letters in the first prompt if you need to.

Yes!

Enthusiasm about this letter-writing project! Yes!

A few notes, though:

-By my count, 2 of you STILL HAVEN'T CREATED BLOGS and sent me the link. This is no good. You must know who you are. Get this done!
-Make sure you post your letters to the blog you created, not to the team blog.
-If you don't follow the prompt, you won't get credit. At least one of you did not follow the prompt in any way.
-Feel free to use paragraph breaks in these letters. I guess you don't have to, but it might help separate your ideas and ease some of the stress on the eyes of your readers. If you're trying to use different paragraphs while posting and it shows up as one, you can always try the HTML code. I can't show you exactly here, because if I do, it will just give me a new paragraph. but you're going to use the left-facing triangle < then the letters br (stands for break), then the right-facing triangle >. No spaces between them. This will give you a break in your text.
-Consider reading some of your classmates' posts and leaving them comments below their posts. I think it will help everyone to know that someone besides me is reading.


Yes!

I agree

I agree with Rain, I usually do not do this stuff, but I felt good after the first post. I think each one will get better and I can get to know my classmates better through doing this.

I like this

This whole blog thing was such a good idea. It feels really good to be able to share things that you otherwise would have just kept to yourself. I probably sound stupid, but i really like it.

Rain