Go through your wallet or backpack and pull out a photograph or other artifact and free write for ten minutes about what it means to you.
 If you don’t have photographs, you can write about what you are carrying in your backpack or purse and what it means to you.

Homework:
 Go through a photo album and find a  picture of yourself as a baby.
In class:
Write three paragraphs about the picture.
In the first paragraph, try to describe objectively what is in the photo from the point of view of an outside observer.
In the second paragraph, try to write in the voice of the baby or child in the photograph.
In the third paragraph, write about the photograph as your adult self looking back on it.