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October, November & December
Fall 2025
Reasons to study stories are many, from exposing ourselves to different people and cultures to deepening our empathy and becoming more inclusive and tolerant. Stories communicate identity, belonging and purpose; they expand imagination, challenge beliefs and enhance memory.
Character, setting, plot and theme are the basic elements that work together to create a story’s structure. Without any one of these components, a story will fall flat, and changing any one of these can dramatically affect a story's impact. Imagine then how better utilizing these elements in our personal narratives might improve what and how we document!
Understanding and communicating the story's overall message or big idea is the theme, which will be our focus in October, November and December. Common themes are love, good vs. evil, coming of age, courage and perseverance, family or freedom, hope and beauty.
None of us truly know what happens next in our own stories, but we can be sure that what we learn and share together here will help us live whatever happens next with more intention and compassion. I’m so glad you are a part of us!
Rote the Quote
Each season we work on memorizing powerful and positive words.
Before each live session, we read and eventually recite (until they are rote) the words of a quote.
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“A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.”
Let’s read a book!
Once Upon A Wardrobe
We are wrapping up our year of stories with a book and a theme that explores the magic of stories and how they can provide comfort, escape and meaning both in life and death.
Once Upon a Wardrobe follows Megs Devonshire, a brilliant mathematics student at Oxford University who is tasked by her dying younger brother, George, to find out where Narnia came from. George’s deep love of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe prompts Megs to seek answers directly from its creator, Lewis. Through her interactions with Lewis, Megs uncovers not just the factual origins of the stories but also the deep, emotional truths that they represent about life, loss, and the imagination.
Purchase on Amazon or listen on Audible
📚 Book Club is scheduled for Wednesday, December 17th at 11:30AM PT
Let’s make projects!
2025 Overview & Schedule
In October we are beginning the finishing touches on our FUN, interactive visual connections game. Pull out your tiles, so we can finish them, box them up and adapt instructions to guide us as we play!
Supply List is HERE
Organizing Chart is HERE
Draft Instructions are HERE
Canva template is HERE
Seasonal Project
In November—and early December—we’ll create an EASY ABC or 123 digital book, perfect for holiday gift giving. Be thinking about a topic and/or a person to create with and for AND which book printing service makes sense for you!
📋 Final Live Your Story Survey. Click HERE!
Click HERE (or click on the image) to enter the Rock Your Scroll classroom, then enter the password: JOYonmyphone