Supplies: Index cards (2 per student) A way for students to view the photo below (I was thinking overhead

projector) 1. Show the picture below. FFW: What's the story behind this picture? Tell students who know the real story they MUST make something up (to avoid the very real possibility that a handful have seen it and will wind up with the same story). 2. Have half of students read responses. Tell all students to listen for the one they find most plausible. 3. Post the responses that have been read around the room for those who want to have a second look 4. FFW: Have each student pick the one response they found most plausible and write about why they found it so convincing (you might encourage them to double-space their focused freewrites since they will have the opportunity to revise) 5. (Based on time constraints, you may omit this step). Have students pass their focused freewrites to the person on their left (or right, if you so prefer). The reader should respond in writing on the page. Pass again. Respond again. Return the focused freewrite to their original authors and give them time to revise. 6. Read around this revised FFW (requiring that all those who didn't read in number 2 read now). 7. If there's time remaining, which I'd imagine there probably won't be, hand out chalk to three students. Tell them to go to the board and write what makes an explanation of something like this photograph convincing. Have each student pass the chalk to someone who hasn't written anything when they're done at the board. For those of you who are curious and don't know the story, a photographer in Indonesia left his camera unattended. Some monkeys found it. Apparently fascinated by her reflection in the lens, one snapped this self-portrait (there's some great writing and thinking to be done with this, the real story, too, of course).