Vivid Images from the Past and Present
The following excerpted responses were composed by the Learning Community students in Gail Conrad’s Writing Strategies course. Students free-wrote to the following prompt in regards to their respective seashells distributed in class.
This seashell appeals to my senses, both in my present and in my past…..
…the tip swirling like a twisty cone from an ice cream store moving down the shell till it reaches quarter size…
-AM
…when I feel the texture of my seashell, it feels kind of rough and edgy in unison with the white brown pattern…
-JB
…it reminds me of the beach in the summer time where I go when it’s too hot to do anything else…
-CS
…when I am at the beach I always remember and think about when he kissed me and that seashell hit my foot…
-EV
…the seashell has a spiral figure on the top, as if putting you in a trance…
-JY
…it has the most unique shape to it because it looks like a torpedo waiting to launch right into the sky…
-LH
…it was my very first time picking it up off the sand. When I looked at it I just smiled at my dad… 
-AV
…when I look at the seashell I love seeing the differences…
-KL
…it appeals to my eyes because it looks like the sunrise permanently stuck on the surface of this shell…
-FR
…it also brings me excitement for the next time I’m out laying on the beach listening to the ocean…
-AR
…the smell of the shell reminds me of suntan lotion and ocean water, kinda what my towel smells like after a day at the beach…
-TP
…the colors have stripes of a tiger, white and a slight tint of orange and brown mixed…
-TR
…when I did it smelled like old hockey equipment… that made me remember when I played hockey and my whole family always at the ice rink….
-MB
…it also reminds me of Lake Erie because I used to collect sea shells when we went on a day trip to the beach…
-LL
…I can feel the playful wave smacking against my feet and feeling the cold water sending shivers up my whole body…
-MO
…this cylinder shape seashell has a slit down the side and it goes in like a staircase…
-AJ
…when you rub your fingers across the inner or outer side of the shell, you feel bumps and ridges…
-KM
…I see an opening on the top and that the color has been changed by the wearing away of several layers…
-PC
…but they were all beautiful, messy, and unique much like the shell today…
-SK
Literacy LC
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