Mini-Paper

We want you to look back over the introductory texts and see if you can “say something” about them. For this paper you should consider all we’ve thrown at you thus far and respond to a specific story, a group of writings, a lesson, lecture or the class a whole thus far. This class doesn’t focus on writing exclusively, but we want to coach you through the Writing Process: Pre-writing, Composing/Drafting and finally Editing/Revising.

Consider the writings and thinksheets you’ve already done as Pre-writing. As far as topics, you must find your own—but I’ll help those who need it. As far as I can envision, these papers will either be expository essays or creative writing responses to the literature. You need to type these pieces and save them so that you may complete all necessary revisions.
Here’s the assignment: Consider what we’ve read, talked about and done and write a response; write about what interests you.



Consider what we’ve read:
o Helga’s Delimma
o “The Hidden Children”
o The WWI lectures
o Gallipoli
o “Why Remember” “The Roots” and the two poems
o The Final Solution
o Mein Kampf
o The Hitler Youth Texts
o The texts for school children
o The Poems to Hitler
o The Einsatzgruppen accounts
o Your Pre-writing and Write-ups

Keep these things in mind as you write:
Compare the texts, and make connections; hold them up to each other and see what they say. You can focus on the one(s) that made the biggest impression on you, but “say something” about the texts and class so far.

o Have a real title
o Have an interesting introduction
o Say Something
o Consider your audience—anyone in the class or Pfjzola. We’ve read the texts, write with that in mind.

Peer draft due Tues. 2/6/07
Graded draft due Thurs. 2/8/07