This morning I received an email from a friend who is a librarian at a public school. She’s working with a creative writing class in which the teacher is asking the students to journal. In fact, I don’t think she’ll mind if I post her email here:
I am currently involved in an assignment with a creative writing class where
the teacher and I are asking the students to journal. It’s not your run of
the mill journal entry sort assignment, but an assignment that encourages
the students to push their writing skills and powers of observation and so
on through journaling. As part of the assignment, the students must read
selections of famous journals.In my searching I have come across what I consider to be some of the
classics, works by Thoreau, Annie Dillard and so on, but I am certain I am
missing something that’s great. Can you think of any books that take on a
journal like characteristic, perhaps a biography, that you felt were well
written and perhaps left an impression upon you–either for the writer’s
craft with words or power to convey their feelings?All suggestions are welcome!
Of course, since I had to be different, I suggested that one unusual route the students could take would be to study online journals. I suggested they start with Christine Castro’s site. If you had to suggest an online journal for Sara’s writing class, what would it be?
Leave a comment: