My most recent trip to Iceland was fraught with food poisoning, over-priced cocktails and salads, a trip to the hospital, and a fraud charge on my Visa. (It was also ruggedly beautiful.) A perfect personal story!

Objectives:

• To learn the elements of a good story
• To create and tell an original story based on a personal experience

Assignment

For this project, create, rehearse, and tell a story based on your own personal experience. Use vivid descriptions and dialogue to bring life to the story. You should tell the story without a script or notes. The setting for your story telling should be informal and the atmosphere relaxed and intimate. Ask your listeners to sit in a semicircle facing you. Don’t stand behind a lectern or other obstacle. You don’t want any barriers between your listeners and you.