![Teachers and students pulled out their smartphones when President Obama visited Mooresville Middle School in Mooresville, N.C., in 2013. On average, children are getting their first smartphones around age 10.](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/07/21/business/21TECHFIX/21TECHFIX-tmagArticle.jpg)
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A) What story does this picture inspire for you? Write about a memory from your own life that this picture makes you think of–or use your imagination to write the opening of a short story of journal entry from the perspective of one of the people pictured.~ OR ~
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