Getting Started

The English 11 class will be reading In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction, edited by Lee Gutkind.

If you want to order it on your own, the ISBN number is: 0-393-32665-9.

Once you buy the book, you should read the following essays:

• Introduction: Notes For Young Writers, by Annie Dillard.
• The Creative Nonfiction Police? by Lee Gutkind.
• Three Spheres, by Lauren Spheres.
• Looking at Emmett Till, by John Edgar Wideman.
• Shunned, by Meredith Hall.
• Gray Area: Thinking with a Damaged Brain, by Floyd Skloot.
• Notes From a Difficult Case, by Ruthann Robson
• Being Brians, by Brian Doyle.
• In the Woods, by Leslie Rubinkowski. 
• Mixed-Blood Stew, by Jewell Parker Rhodes.
• Four more essays from the book (any four not listed here) that you choose based on your own interest. 

Please annotate as you read and check this blog frequently because I will be posting assignments for you to complete and links for you check out throughout the summer. 

HAPPY READING! : )