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YWP Week 7: The six-worders
Submitted by ggevalt on November 13, 2006 - 22:47.Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to write a story using only six words. His response: For sale: Baby shoes, never used. In our first ONLINE CHALLENGE, we asked students to take the same challenge. We received well over 100 entries. Here are the best, some of which were printed in the five newspapers now carrying the Young Writers Project. By the way, if you have a hankering to write a six-word story or, even, add another, feel free to include it in the comment section. And many thanks to Matthew Peterson, English Teacher at Hartford High School; this challenge was his suggestion. The best entries in no particular order:
Signed papers, desert camies, Purple Heart
-- Sabrina Rowell, Hartford High School
My heart throbbed; the door closed.
-- Emily Fisher, Champlain Valley Union High School
Maybe I'll skip lunch again today.
-- Camille Bower, Camels Hump Middle School
Came and waited. No one here.
-- Preston Palmer, Hartford High School
Late fall light
Submitted by ggevalt on November 13, 2006 - 23:50.
Michael Steven Thomas is a senior at Essex High School and he wants to go to photography school in the fall. Here’s what he says about this photo: “This is one of four images of a leaf as it lives on the tree, falls and heads down stream. I try to spend most of my time trying to work with nature photography as much as I can, but I also enjoy working on architecture photography.”
YWP Week 7: Teaching trust, a classroom exercise
Submitted by ggevalt on November 13, 2006 - 23:43.
By Nick Brooks
Language Arts Teacher
Williston Central School
Sharing ourselves with others is, at its simplest level, a lesson in trust. When we meet new people, our thoughts and expressions are often guarded in the uncertainty of how others will feel and react to what we think and believe.
YWP Week 7: Eavesdropping stories
Submitted by ggevalt on November 13, 2006 - 23:34.
Weirdos in school
By Megan Pratt
Rochester School, Grade 10
(fiction)
YWP7: Place stories
Submitted by ggevalt on November 13, 2006 - 23:20.Students were asked about a place they wanted to visit, a place they had never been, real or imaginary. Here are some of the best of the many entries YWP received. Some of these were published in the five newspapers where YWP publishes each week.
Pennsylvania
By Cody Bowen
Rochester School, Grade 8
Every Saturday and Sunday I wake up at 8:00 to the sweet smell of bacon and sausage. When I walk into the living room I find my dad watching the Hunting Channel. Last Saturday, a father and son were on the show hunting for white-tailed deer in Pennsylvania.
