STUDENTS, SUBMIT YOUR BEST WORK!
The Writers' Room
As you work through a course, email me your best paragraphs, poems, and pieces, and I will regularly add student work to this page. I am excited to read and share your amazing creations!
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Due to privacy issues and posting student work, please remember to only include your first name, or no name, on your submissions. You can include your age if you'd like and the state you are from.​
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Disclaimer: Student submissions will only be showcased on this website and specifically on this page, with clear indication that all displayed works are submissions from students
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My email address: hello@kristenmasker.com.
The most delicious peanut butter and jelly sandwich you could ever imagine is right here. In order to experience the best taste, texture, and smell ever, I suggest you make this sandwich exactly as I specify. First of all, I start with good bread, such as a soft multigrain. Put two pieces on the counter and on one piece, spread on a sizable amount of almond butter. Peanut butter is good, but almond butter allows for a deep, rich nutty flavor to come through. Then, put fresh, ripe, very red blackberries in a bowl, and press down on them repeatedly with a fork until you have a jelly-like consistency. Make sure it’s thick, with a little bit of chunkiness. Scoop the blackberry mixture onto your almond butter. Then put the second piece of bread on top. Smoosh down with your hand. Cut it in half and take a squishy bite out of the middle part of it and feel the seedy sandwich in your mouth and taste the sweet and salty mixture. This is the best sandwich ever.
Dani, 11
What do I love to do?
Dance!
I show up at the studio every Wednesday at 7pm
I glide across the floor and,
Listen to the beats and,
Sway to the music and,
Move my arms with precision and,
Step, side step, bounce, turn.
Dancing is my life. Without it,
I don’t know,
I just don’t know if I could make it.
The deep bass fills my soul with
Excitement and,
Peace.
The movement of my arms, legs, neck, and shoulders
Releases the anger and anxiety.
It just floats away into the air.
Dance!
I love it.
JC, 12
IN THE A.M.
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I got up on a Saturday morning and ate my Cheerios
I do that first thing, even before I brush my teeth
Why?
Because as soon as I wake up
That’s all I think about
Cheerios
They are crunchy and tasty
And a little bit melty in the milk
That’s what I did on a Saturday
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Maria, 11
The biggest reason I adore and admire my Gigi is because of her deep love for her grandchildren. I remember, when I was just a preschooler, playing in her sunroom or climbing upon her big futon couch, she would say to me, “I love you so much that it breaks my heart.” And she would say it with this big, joyful smile on her face. In my young mind, I couldn’t understand how that worked. Love means happiness, right? And a breaking heart means sadness, right? Further along in my years, when I was at the big age of about 11 and just starting middle school, I had a conversation with her about this. She explained it but it still didn’t make sense to me. She would still say this to me and it would baffle me every time. Then something happened that was magnanimous. I turned 14 and it was like a world of understanding opened up in my brain. I seemed to understand life, people, and situations better. Well, a day came when I was standing across the room, watching my dear Gigi stirring brown sugar into her tea, when suddenly, I felt my heart break. It felt like a dull bump inside my chest. And do you know what? A smile formed on my face, and it got bigger and bigger. In that moment, my heart was breaking, not from sadness, but from the overwhelming joy I felt at having my Gigi in my life. I understood in that moment how deep and wide her love for me was, and that it was not a normal human kind of love, but only the love that can come from God. I realized that God gifted her with that love, just as he had in that moment gifted me and that Gigi had planted that seed in my mind so many years ago, as God brought it to fruition. What a wonderful woman my Gigi is.
Sarah, 15
One reason I admire my teacher is because she relates things to my life and doesn’t judge her students. During the first week of school we were assigned a novel. Throughout the novel she would have class discussions where she would want to know our true opinions and feelings about the actions the characters were taking in the book. If we disagreed with her, she was never bothered by it but seemed genuinely interested in why we disagreed. She would listen to our arguments without judging us sometimes saying things like, “I see your point of view and I never considered that before.” Because of this, I love her class. She helps us to apply what we read to our personal lives and she never judges us.
Second of all, Mars is a fantastic place to live because of the power or electricity. On this planet, it runs everything. For example, do you want to zoom from one volcano to another? Or get to your friendly alien’s house in seconds? Let the electricity powered blaster do that. Anywhere you want to go, you put this thing on your back, punch in directions and hit the button and you are blasted almost instantly to where you want to go. Do you know what else electricity does on this planet? It heals people and aliens. If you fall and cut your leg, an alien doctor will close its eyes, hum and all of a sudden zaps from high in the sky come down and sparks jump around your cut. Then suddenly the wound is closed up and healed. The alien doctors have been trained in how to harness electricity in this way. As you can see the power of electricity makes Mars a very good place to live.