Assignment: First Jab at Nonfiction: The Most Dangerous Experience of Your Life
In this assignment you will begin to write in the details of a story that actually happened to you These
details must be in answer to the questions below. If you can’t remember the details, make them up.
Talk about the story in class and consider the big question: Is this worth writing about?
What happened? Briefly
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1. Describe the setting – (WHERE it happened): _________________________________
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2. Who else was involved? Describe
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What were the events leading up to the dangerous experience?
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What did you learn from it, if anything?
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If you could change the events anyway you’d want, how would you change them?
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Take these tidbits home and turn it into a story.