Tag: Letters
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Children Pen Pals (Final Project)
Personally, I grew up writing some form of letters as a child with a fill in the blank that teachers provided us to introduce ourselves, improve our handwriting, and form sentences to improve communication. With those papers, we filled in the blanks with our personal answers and colored them with fun pictures and geometric shapes.…
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Week 13: Final Presentations
In class, we presented our final projects about any topic of letters we admire. I decided to do pen pals to and from children because I thought children letters are too adorable not to talk about. I was decided on something completely different with language, but I decided to do something I’m comfortable talking about.…
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Week 12: Open Letters
In class, we discussed a series of cover letters from Letters of Note. We then shared what our letters were about to a partner, wrote down what we have learned on an index card from our partner, swapped cards, and spoke to the class about our own letter. Interesting way to multi-task with writing and…
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Week 11: Cover Letters
In class, we discovered the true meaning of what’s important with sending cover letters for the future. Like being yourself, one page, and expressing the true meaning of what you want. Learning the main purpose of cover letters helps in the future with careers/jobs because of how managers take under 10 seconds to look through…
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Week 10: Free Write for Final Project
For my final project, I want to focus on Pen Pals. I like the concept with how Pen Pals has made an impact on writing letters across the world. Personally, I was going to be Pen Pals with a friend of mine who lives in California, and we met online during covid. I would like…
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Week 9: Forgeries
Though we didn’t have class, there was a movie from 2018 called “Can you ever forgive me?” I actually enjoyed the movie because a lot of the main actors I knew from other popular movies. It was nice to learn the importance of selling real and fake letters. It gave me a better understanding of…
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Can you ever forgive me?
The movie “Can you ever forgive me?” was very interesting in a way of how it was based in New York in the mindset of an author struggling with payments such as rent and her cat. It was nice with the characters and the storyline with what to expect throughout the movie. I thought that…
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Week 8: Letters of Note
In class, we did a Round Robin of letters that reminded me of historical moments that were funny moments of history. The letters I read were between an eleven year old girl named Grace Bedell and Abraham Lincoln before he became president. Kind of weird that an eleven year old girl is sending letters to…
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Love, Abe: A Jewish GI’s World War II Letters Home
World War II letters that I focused on were from author Bonnie Klapper Goldenberg expressing her fathers legacy in the army. The main focus in the beginning of the book was how they were in New York and celebrating summer of 1941 before her father Abraham Klapper introduced himself to his future wife and mother…
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Week 6: WWII & Epistolary Fiction
In class, we discussed the ideas of letters being sent to either strangers or loved ones. It made me think about how letters have impacted communication to get their words out for good. When sending letters, it would either be about sending them a gift to feel safe or connecting with what’s happening in their…