Below are three, five sentence paragraphs I have written about myself. One of them is true, the other two are lies. Your job, as a class, is to discover which is which. As a class you may ask me up to 20 simple yes or no questions. After you discover the truth (or not), your assignment will be to write three five sentence paragraphs about yourself - one true, the other two lies. Tomorrow in Class we will try and guess which is which.
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One Truth, Two Lies, Five Sentences When I turned 50, my husband and children fulfilled my life long dream by giving me a skydiving lesson in Sioux Falls. I thought that all you did was go up, strap on a parachute, and jump out of a plane. I discovered that you had to work your way, hand over hand, along the wing strut, and then drop. I was so terrified, that I wrapped my arms around the strut and didn’t want to let go, but I had to because the plane couldn’t land with me hanging there. The bruises on my arms lasted for four weeks. My first husband was from Honolulu, and we moved back there when he got out of the air force in 1962. One of my dearest memories was of President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade passing directly in front of my apartment in September 1963. I held my first son Joey up to watch the President, and a good friend took a picture of us. Just three months later she took another picture of Joey on her balcony. It was the day the President was assassinated. When I lived in Hawaii, I got a chance to do a lot of really fun things. I tried surfing, but the waves were way too big for me to handle. The one thing that I really excelled in was scuba diving. One time I dived to 75 feet looking for pearl oysters. I didn’t get any oysters, but I did bring back a huge Samoan crab for our dinner that night.
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