Performing Personal Narrative: Anna Deveare Smith’s “Fires in tthe Mirror”

Describes how Anna Deveare Smith’s “Fires in the Mirror” can be adapted for the secondary level language arts classroom. Describes a storytelling exercise, and then describes the six stages of the project as students adapted personal narrative for performance: theme; obtaining the interview; the peer-editing workshop; preparing for the performance; final performance; and postperformance activity and conclusion.