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This writing class will focus on preparing students to enter for one or more categories of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Students will receive individual instruction and feedback from the teacher, while also being free to work on a creative product of their own design.

They can choose from a wide variety of categories, including: Critical Essay, Dramatic Script, Humor, Journalism, Poetry, Personal Essay, and Novel Writing. Students will work on their writing skills, with the goal of creating a unique piece of writing which can be entered for a chance to win a Scholastic award.

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Opening paragraphs from our students' class writing - Novel Writing 

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"Joan Taylor sits in a cafe, one of the few establishments that had managed to rebuild rather quickly after the fire. As such, it was one of the busiest places in the area. Getting up from her seat at a table near a window, she waves to the person coming through the door. “Over here!” - E. 7th grade

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"I had always believed in what the world taught me, but today, my sense of all things were dismantled. In the Greenlocke town, there lies the Greenlocke cemetery, with a singular gravestone marked with an empty casket, and no name. Legend says that on December 21st, the winter solstice, at midnight the ghost of the once embodied casket will come and wisp you anyway forever. Everything in Greenlocke besides the cemetery was normal, like how the temperature was usually the same, the wind always seemed blow east as well. Realistically, most of the townspeople thought the legend was a joke, or as a way to scare kids. My friends had urged me to go on into the cemetery once before, but the eerie feeling of despair kept creeping behind me as I opened those creaky gate doors."  - M. 9th grade

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