After reading the short essays from the Personal Narrative Essay Contest – The New York Times. , choose your favorite of the eight student essays. Then, write a thread in which you:
- Specify which essay you enjoyed the most or most captivated/impressed you and why. What aspects of the essay did you enjoy?
- Second, mention at least one aspect of the story itself as well as at least one aspect of craft (for example, use of sensory description, metaphor, hyperbole, etc.).
- Finally, reference at least one aspect of storytelling from Andrew Stanton’s TED Talk (found in Module 2) that you think the author of your favorite essay got right. In total, your thread should be at least 150 words.