"The American Man, Age 10," essay by Susan Orlean is online. If you do not have the link, you can read and work from this until you get your book.
Blog topics: Wednesday-Friday (9/12-14) are to write description. Try out the exercises on the description assignment. If some of them work out, use them in your paper.
Blog topics for the week of 9/17 are from the Glenn text. Write about Colin Duffy, the "American Man, Age 10." What do you have in common with Colin? What are your differences?
Visit The New Yorker Magazine Web site (for whom Susan Orlean writes). Look at the various articles. What interests you and what does not?
If you do not like these topics, feel free to explore your own using the items at the end of the essay in the Glenn text.
