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Write Your Own Fictionalized Autobiographical Account

Choose an incident from your own life and use it as the basis for a brief essay of 1-2 pages in which you offer both factually accurate and fictionalized elements. Your fictionalized elements, like Sedaris's, should remain within the realm of plausibility and should support the central point of your essay.

Write Your Own Commencement Address

In "A Speech to the Graduates," Sedaris tries to give genuinely useful life advice. If you were giving a commencement address, what would you tell the graduates? Write a speech of about two pages--for either a high-school or college graduation--in which you offer advice that you think is genuinely helpful and applicable to most young people.

Create a Brochure to Showcase the Beauty of Eastern Europe

In "To Serbia with Love," Sedaris chooses details and language that focus attention on the downside of Eastern European nations...

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