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Please click on "discussion" and post your completed piece there.

Format:

1. 1-3 sentences to introduce your images.

2. Image #1: keep it to 1-3 sentences. Only a teeny bit of telling, rather than showing allowed. And only at the very end of the sentence(s).

3. Image #2: extend it further to 4-6 sentences. Same deal re: telling.

4. Image #3: extend it even further to 8-12 sentences. Ditto re: telling.

5. Now explain HOW these images exist in your memory. Compare them to a concrete object or image (Larry Watson used multiple movie screens and a buffalo hide). Examples: a camera with night vision, a foggy window, a tattoo, a child's drawing, a charcoal sketch, etc.

6. Fast forward to the present. **Do this by beginning with a phrase like "Years later I'm standing next to... " or "Three months ago, I lay in bed..." or "The last time my family got together on the Fourth,...".** Tell a quick one time story or give us a scene of the present. Are you in it, now much more grown up? Or, is one of the characters in one of the images above in this scene? Remember, SHOW your reader a scene to SHOW the effects of the memories (how they have shaped the present)...don't TELL us.

7. Post this BEFORE CLASS ON FRIDAY. Smile. You're Done!