Your assignment (due Sunday night) is to write a post-able letter to someone who doesn’t live near you/whom you don’t see all the time these days. Then write a paragraph analyzing or reflecting on the experience, the letter, letters as a medium, your history with written letters, or using such an old (obsolete?) medium in a digital world.

Reading: for Monday:  On letters in the digital age

Resource on letter writing (intended for kids in UK but still interesting!)

Remember to bring your letter and your recipient’s postal address to class on Monday… the envelopes and domestic stamps are on me! 

(Sorry to be slow off the mark with this posting—but I love the fact that some folks have already beaten me to the punch with thoughtful posts!)