Day Twelve / 9.23.10

Today we started with presenting our My Name papers. Then, we analyzed a quote from David Foster Wallace: “The key to writing is learning to differentiate private interest from public entertainment.”

Then, we wrote a journal entry on a moral story from our life, based on the following three prompts:

Tell a story (in 2-3 lines) of:

1. Something where you were caught.

2. Something where you were rewarded.

3. Something where you did something where no one ever found out (good or bad).

Then we shared our 3 stories with our neighbor and they picked our best story. We then outlined David Sedaris' story ("Let it Snow"), to see how he created his structure, so that we could imitate a similar structure in our own story. The handout for that is here. For homework, you are to fill out the same form for your own story.