Quickwrite Collection 11 Visitor from Forest Hills Imagine an elegant album filled with typical wedding photographs: the bride and groom gaze at each other lovingly, the happy couple slicing the wedding cake, the parents beaming proudly. Now, imagine photos of a wedding at which everything has gone comically wrong: A dog has eaten the wedding cake; sprinklers have gone off, soaking all the guests; the groom’s father recognizes the bride’s uncle as the third-grade bully. List a few of your ideas for photos of the world’s worst wedding.

Quickwrite Collection 11 The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet “Kids these days! They think that love conquers all, that nothing matters except how they feel about each other. They have no sense of responsibility to their families, no respect for tradition, no regard for those who are older and wiser. They don’t know the problems they’re going to have that all the love in the world won’t solve for them.” What do you think of this complaint? Have you heard older people say these things about kids today? How would one of the kids respond to this speaker? Write a quick response from a kid’s point of view.