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One of my favorite assignments from the sophomore Writing
Portfolio assignment is #25:
My Own List of Lists: Now
in its third edition, The Book of Lists, lists facts from
history, literature, science, entertainment, etc. For your list
of lists, I have selected more personal topics. Write the general
label for each category and underline it. Then list from six
to ten specific items under each category. You may write in two
columns to save space.
Things
That Worry Me:
1. blindness
2. politicians
3. AIDS
4. paperwork
5. the decline of values
6. stupidity
7. dogma |
People
I Would Like to Meet:
1. George Gordon, Lord Byron
2. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3. Toni Morrison
4. William Shakespeare
5. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
6. Frank Lloyd Wright
7. Bob Dylan |
Things
I Would Like to Know How to Do:
1. fly an airplane
2. sculpt
3. sew
4. read, write, and speak Russian
5. carpentry and woodwork
6. program a computer
7. write a good sonnet |
Interesting Words:
1. scar
2. metamorphosis
3. brouhaha
4. serendipity
5. seraglio
6. façade
7. suave |
Places
That Make Me Happy:
1. my home
2. my grandprent’s home place
3. London (almost anywhere)
4. the National Art Gallery
5. OU's Bizzell Library
6. my classroom
7. airplane terminals |
Ideas That Intrigue
Me:
1. space travel
2. selective memory
3. how the brain works
4. religious belief
5. parapsychology
6. literary theory
7. somatyping |
Places
I Would Like to Go:
1. Tuscany
2. boating on the Nile
3. the space shuttle in orbit
4. Moscow
5. Tokyo
6. another planet
7. Amsterdam |
Things I’ve Said
Goodbye to:
1. childhood
2. innocence
3. belief in “the kindness of strangers”
4. wild and crazy friends
5. religion
6. the home place
7. Central Mid-High |
Things
in People Which I Dislike:
1. narrow minds
2. unexamined opinions
3. apathy
4. prejudice
5. rudeness
6. self-pity
7. irresponsibility |
Things in People
Which I Like:
1. wit
2. intelligence
3. commitment
4. determination
5. courtesy
6. discipline
7. responsibility |
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