Explore the quotes around the room and write down the three that resonate the most with you

Writing a Personal Narrative When starting a personal narrative, you’ll want to choose an event that fits all or most of the following: You experienced this event with others You remember this event (or how it made you feel) vividly This event caused a realization or epiphany (either in the moment or later in life) that you still believe today This event changed or had the potential to change your life in a significant way The story of this event contains some degree of suspense

Please take your brainstorming sheet, and find a partner in the room who has the same picture as you When you find them, sit together Share your two big ideas with them, and have them share theirs with you ask your partner’s opinion on which one they’d most like to read and put a star next to it

Examples of Stories (from me) When my old neighborhood purposefully bullied one family Neighborhood shooting incident Little sister almost drowned in riptide Breaking my Femur Sean dying at the butterfly party 9/11 in 3rd grade Lightening storm freshman Year at College

Picking a topic When your partner picked a topic, did you feel relieved or nervous If you felt relieved, that’s the one you actually want to write about If you feel nervous, that’s probably not the one you actually want to do If you feel nothing, just write the one they picked, and if you hate writing it, at least now you don’t have to blame yourself 

Our Approach to this project: We will be in the Lab all next week doing both Night and Personal Memoir My hope is that you use the techniques you’ve been reflecting on in each chapter in order to improve your own work Your Rough draft will be due at the end of next week