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Week 13: Mystery stories
Submitted by ggevalt on January 17, 2007 - 09:57.Life, the true mystery
By Ryley MacKay
Renaissance School, Grade 4
Lives. Filled with tears.
Imagine. An empty heart.
Life. A miracle.
You are lucky. You have life.
People. Dying in the world.
Secrets. The secret of life.
A mystery. Waiting upon us.
Life.
The mystery dream
Week 13: Foreign and free
Submitted by ggevalt on January 16, 2007 - 19:47.This piece was written in response to the prompt that asked students to imagine what it was like to be born in a foreign land.
By Camille Johnson
Berlin Elementary School, Grade 6
My name is Carmelita or Eliza. I am eleven years old. My parents, Theresa and Seferino, changed my name when my family illegally immigrated to The United States of America from Mexico. My older sister, Isabella, who is thirteen, had her name changed to Sarah.
Week 13: Imagine France, WWII
Submitted by ggevalt on January 16, 2007 - 19:37.This piece was written in response to the prompt that asked students to imagine what it was like to be born in a foreign land.
By Meghan Burrows
Crossett Brook Middle School, Grade 7
I can hear the dripping water from the crack on the wall. The damp, cold basement is locked from the German troops. I feel my mother’s cold and purple hands grasping me, holding me tight, and her worry hurting my body. I can see my father’s huddled body across the room; he seems out of place. His thoughts are lost and confused.
Week 13: Money, student selections Part I
Submitted by ggevalt on January 16, 2007 - 12:44.These pieces were written in response to the weekly YWP prompt: 'Money.'
Photo by
Katelyn Clark,
Mount Mansfield Union High School
Never enough
By Heather Rameau
Woodstock Union High School, Grade 10
Money.
There’s never the amount you want.
Coins, papers, dollar bills,
Money allows for many thrills.
When you get that new paycheck,
You hope it’s more than you’d expect.
Because, it seems, everything revolves around how much you have, not who you are.
Big things, small things, important things and not,
It all depends on how much we’ve bought.
But you don’t need all these things to be a sight,
Because money doesn’t buy happiness, right?
Week 13: Seven a.m. on the bus
Submitted by ggevalt on January 15, 2007 - 22:14.
Sam Chase, a Mount Mansfield Union High School sophomore, took this photo in response to an earlier YWP prompt, Seven. “At 7 in the morning, I’m getting on the bus with both my sisters. I sit with Lindsey in the ‘heater seat.’ There’s pretty much nothing else to do besides looking out the window.” Do you have a photo to share? Do you have a visual response to one of the Young Writers Project prompts? We’d like to see your work. click on Submit Writing here or above.
Week 13: Digital Storytelling links
Submitted by ggevalt on January 15, 2007 - 22:02.The Center for Digital Storytelling: The start of it all. Teachers should go to the cookbook, in particular:
Week 13: Money, student selections Part II
Submitted by ggevalt on January 15, 2007 - 17:11.These pieces were written in response to the weekly YWP prompt: 'Money.'
No money here
By Landis Field
Dummerston School, Grade 8
No money here, it’s gone.
Gone like the wind on a cloudless day,
Spent like the eyes of an eagle
tired from searching.
Week 13: Where's Katie?
Submitted by ggevalt on January 15, 2007 - 17:02.This piece was written in response to the weekly YWP prompt: 'Mystery.'
By Ellen Dillenbeck
Charlotte Central School, Grade 7
Abby felt someone shaking her awake. Her mother was standing over her; she looked scared.
“What’s wrong?” asked Abby.
“Don’t ask questions,” replied her mother, “just go downstairs.”
Abby had seen her mother mad and pleased, sad and happy, but never scared. It made Abby frightened, too.
Week 13: Digital Storytelling
Submitted by ggevalt on January 15, 2007 - 17:00.Links to great digital storytelling sites.
By Newton Baker
Retired teacher
Six students (aged 11-13) and I recently set out with digital video and still cameras and notebooks to explore all of Montpelier’s bridges crossing our town’s three major rivers.
The point was to collect writing and visual images to combine in a final DVD that included text, music and voice-over. The students would write, photograph and edit the material and would make group decisions necessary to create their final product.
