Community Partner Projects
For this Imaginative Writing course, each writer presented in this anthology was required to give 15 hours of their time to a community service project of their choosing. There were numerous choices of partners to meet the requirement, the pieces of which–a series of creative pieces from a handful of different genres–were written about their experience working with their community partner.
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Pieces We Wrote |
Angela:I worked with the Copper Mountain Middle School in Herriman, Utah. I helped them brainstorm, workshop, introduce creative writing concepts, and examples of possibilities to assignments they were about to have.
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A Series of Limericks
Your children on books the poster did say.
Books sat upon desks, on a shelf, in a tray. And when the teacher did ask, where was their latest book task? They hopped up crying, “they just flew away!”... (read more) |
Rachel:I worked with the Copper Mountain Middle School in Herriman, Utah. I got to work with Andrea Rakowski's creative writing class during workshops in several different genres.
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Creative WritingWhen I was a young girl, in
middle school: shoulder length, long hair blonde hair and bruised eyes. But my eyes weren't really bruised just covered in teal and plum eyeliner from my time's goth store, since there... (read more) |
Maxwell:For my community partner, I chose to work with Cassandra Barksdale at the Veteran's Association. My role was to interview as many of the veteran's at the nursing home as I could and/or who were willing to tell me about their lives and experiences. Here's an example of a profile I wrote for one of the veteran's I interviewed. For his and his families privacy, his name has been changed and replaced.
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Making The Best of Life
The horrors of war can easily damage and destroy the human mind. Its interesting then that coming back home can often piece away at what’s left and begin chipping the body, finishing the job until all that’s left is what you managed... (read more)
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Kanah:I did two workshops for English and Writing students at Ms. Rakowski's Middle School classes and I'm collaborating with the Beehive Science and Technology Charter School to do something similar with the teachers and then with the students there
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Devils and AngelsTweens are devils.
It was true for her many years ago when she was a tween and doubly true now, standing in front of twenty-eight glassy-eyed, deceptively quiet, unimaginably cunning little scoundrels. There was a time when even the power of an untamed bronco could not... (read more) |