Narrative Essay (9 points, required to pass the course; Brightspace
Tell a compelling story, either personal or constructed from source material, to engage the audience.
The story should be explicitly related to childhood and should direct the reader toward reflection about an issue in childhood. How you define childhood and what stage of childhood (infancy, youth culture, emerging adulthood, etc.) is up to you, but the relevance for the theme of the course (What Is Childhood for?) should be explicit.
The issue does not need to be negative or super-serious, but the story you tell here should serve as a hook for the reader in the larger project, the Research Essay.
Use purposeful language, with sensory detail, strong description, a unique voice, and punctuation for emphasis.
Show examples that reflect on the story and connect it to the larger issues of the Research Essay.
Encourage your audience to think, feel, or act differently after sharing your experience of childhood.
Conform to MLA format and rhetorically appropriate conventions of grammar and punctuation.
Write between 500-750 words.
Cite sources in MLA format, if necessary. (Try to write a compelling story of growing up in Ghana)
