1. Follow Each Step Step 1: Get your composition books and write your MLA heading (you have 45 seconds)

2. Follow Each Step Step 2: Make a list of at least three books and short stories you have read (over the past few years) that have anything to do with relationships with family members. You have one minute.

3. Follow Each Step Step 3: Make a list of at least three things over which you and a family member have ever had a disagreement. You have one minute.

4. Follow Each Step Step 4: Write down at least three typical situations you have personally witnessed in which family members disagree. You have one minute.

5. Follow Each Step Step 5: Write down at least three things you have studied in which people did not get along (history, English, church, etc.) You have one minute.

6. It’s called the ROSE strategy What you’ve read … Use the literature you have read, either for enjoyment or for school.

7. It’s called the ROSE strategy What you’ve observed: You know things … because you’ve seen things. You know human nature. Use what you know.

8. It’s called the ROSE strategy What you know about society … You know things from that are common in our world today.

9. It’s called the ROSE strategy What you’ve experienced … You know things … because some have happened to you!

10. It’s called the ROSE strategy What you’ve read … What you’ve observed … What you know about society … What you’ve experienced …

11. It’s called the ROSE strategy What you’ve read … What you’ve observed … What you know about society … What you’ve experienced …

12. It’s called the ROSE strategy Let me prove to you that it can work … and in just 11 minutes you can write an essay.

13. Get ready … Turn to a new sheet in your composition book …

14. The 11-minute Essay, Step 1 Opinion Statement: “When you fall in love, you are willing to look more foolish than at any time in your life.”

15. The 11-minute Essay, Step 1 Instructions: Look at the photo. In the next MINUTE, copy the opinion statement. Opinion Statement: “When you fall in love, you are willing to look more foolish than at any time in your life.”

16. The 11-minute Essay, Step 2 Instructions: For the next THREE (3) MINUTES, explain the statement and its validity. (What does it mean? What is your interpretation of it? How true is it?)

17. The 11-minute Essay, Step 3 Instructions: Take a breath … and indent. For the next THREE (3) MINUTES, tell how the opinion statement connects to any literature you have read.

18. The 11-minute Essay, Step 4 Instructions: Take another breath … and indent again. For the next THREE (3) MINUTES, tell how the opinion statement connects to your own life, your experiences, and/or our world.

19. The 11-minute Essay, Step 5 Instructions: Take a breath and indent one more time. For the next MINUTE, complete your essay by reflecting on something that this discussion leaves you wondering.

20. Now that you’re done … Instructions: In just a minute you will be dividing into groups of 3-4. Here is what you will do: each member will read his/her 11-minute essay twice. After the second time, the other members of the group will write down (in their composition books) metaphors for which the writing reminds you.

21. Say what?? In other words: Does the writing remind you of a particular song, sound, type of weather, motion or locomotion, color, shape, food, animal, instrument, car, or even clothing? Explain why it does. Now … divide yourselves into groups of 3-4