Annotated Index
Write a narrative index. Your index will contain five headings. Each heading will name the item you are writing about.
Write about five different mothers or fathers.
Name and list the items in alphabetical order.
Offer personal observations of each item. These observations should both describe the item and suggest the narrator’s feeling about the item.
Vary the lengths of each section and to vary the quality of your narrator’s relationship with each item.
Use three complete sentences. No questions, no exclamations. Choose your three sentences wisely. Otherwise, use a concise, fragmented, notational style.
Have a theme (like “sickness” in Grider’s “Formers”) present in 2-3 sections. Also have a single image repeat in 2-3 sections. The theme and image will help bind the index together, and they will give us a stronger sense of the narrator.
