Standard indented paragraphs with NO additional spacing between paragraphs
Format–
Minimum of 600 words
1″ margins
Double-spaced
10-12 pt. font…preferably Times New Roman or a similar font
Standard indented paragraphs with NO additional spacing between
paragraphs
Content–
*Please choose one of the following three prompts and present your personal perspective on the prompt (a.k.a. “what
do you think about _____?”). REMEMBER that the prompt you choose will suggest the theme you employ for all the essays in the
class,
so choose wisely.
Prompt:
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence, so that never again will Americans be free in their own country from the noise, the exhausts, the stinks of human and automotive waste. ~Wallace Stegner, letter to David E. Pesonen of the Wildland Research Center, 3 December 1960