Stealing from the New York Times Sunday feature, an embarrassingly specific guide to pandemic-era pursuits and rabbit holes.
Headliner: My ten
Author: John Turnbull
An introduction of 1 minute, 8 seconds
Self-introduction that accounts for my vocation as an instructor of English as an additional language.
Coronavirus: the unseen cause with visible effects
Model for a cause-and-effect personal essay, on the theme of coronavirus.
Entering El Valle de la Paz
Winds of the spirit blew soothingly late this morning through Valle de la Paz cemetery in Hargill, Texas, the place of interment of Chicana author and borderlands theorist Gloria Anzaldúa.
Dangling chicken for Maryland blue crabs
This is a writing sample for students in the intensive-English program at UTSA. They were writing about how they acquired a skill and the steps that they took to learn it.
John Chandlee Turnbull 