• In-class Writing Update: I have 30/35 graded.
• Outlines
• Homework: Begin writing your first draft.

• Guidelines:
– Make sure that the essay is a personal essay. The focus should be on the writer’s experience.
– Make sure that the essay is not only personal. The story should be about a problem that is not just personal, but also involves social relationships. The solution should involve a change in social relationships.
– Check the length. There should be at least eight headings. Each heading should correspond to a paragraph.
– Check whether any headings need to be separated or might not have enough material. The paragraphs should be about the same length.
– Check whether the essay builds up to a key moment. Most of the essay should be about events near in time (a few weeks at most) to the key moment. The events should be in sequence.

• In order to be caught up, you should have an outline before the end of class today.
• Exchange your outline with at least one other person.
Write your name on the outline or outlines that you read.
You will turn your outline in with your first draft.
• If you have not yet done your journal or have not received feedback see me now.

• Keep your outline, and turn it in with your first draft.
• Begin writing the first draft of the personal essay.
• I advise you to write your introduction after you have written the body of your essay.