The works below are a selection from students who participated in our free classes over Thanksgiving Break!
issue 1: thanksgiving class
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issue 1: thanksgiving class |
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By Emily
I ran as hard as I could. Bang! I had hit the wall. My head was spinning dizziness, but I got up and ran again. Smash! A moment later, I was lying on the grass looking dazed. I had been determined to increase my reflexes, but as you can tell, I had failed. Ten minutes later, a bunny hopped by and looked at me, gave me a weird face, then spit on me and hopped away. “Ew! Gross!” I cried. I ran at the wall, trying to rub it on the wall, but I got dizzy again.
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By Alexander
“I won’t do it, and you can’t make me!” Bob shrieked at Tom.
“Oh yes you will,” Tom said sneeringly.
“You can’t make me bullet other kids!” Bob cried.
“What if I give you candy every day will you do it?” Tom asked. Bob’s eyes widened.
“You sure? Pinky promise?” Bob said.
“Pinky promise,” Tom said triumphantly.
“Deal,” Bob said. They reached out and did a pinky promise. Bob’s friend Ash watched hoerrified in the bushes. As soon as Tom was gone Ash leapt out from his hiding spot.
“You can’t bully others.” Ash said.
“I know but I will get candy, besides we already did a pinky promise.” As Bob walked away it started to rain. Ash headed to the principal’s office to inform the principal about what just happened. Ash just realized that he was late for Science class. There was Bob and Tom chatting together in the back row. I had to sit with Sam, the most annoying kid in the class besides Tom. As soon as Same saw me he started making goofy faces and picking his nose. All the way until Science was done. I had to put a stop to this but how? Aha! I thought, there is this ring called the ring od enchantment on Amazon. I ordered it and it came with a set of directions. You to go like this:
“I enchant this ring to enchant whoever wears it to not be a bully anymore.” I put the ring in a box and wrote on it from Emily to Bob. After that I dressed up as a mailman and put the ring in Bob’s mailbox. The next day Bob ran over and asked me to play football and I did.
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By Jonathan
Bob couldn't see anything time slowed down as he was running so fast. He thought of nothing but revenge from Derik because he stole the magic inside him. As he was running he tripped on something as shiny as gold. His reflection looked back at him like a mirror. He picked up a crown. It was only given to people with the highest honor but too late now because he was in a rush. Clumsy as he is he put it on his head and ran off into the distance. But little did he know what the crown is.
Meanwhile, Derik was devastated about what he was going to do for his dad. He stole Bob’s magic hoping it could heal his dad. His dad lying on the deathbed only to see his dad getting weaker every day. But the magic was too weak only to stop the pain for a few days.
Bob was flying, he didn't know how he was flying or when he started flying but he just started to float. But why. He didn't care because he was having a blast. Until he glided swiftly over a battleship. “Uh oh!” that meant trouble he squinted his eyes and saw A big “M” logo which was Derik's logo. All turrets are aimed at Bob.
When No One Agrees or Understands
By Angela
When no one agrees or understands,
A feeling of sadness washes over.
Coated with anger, surprise, and confusion,
Nothing now matters.
When no one agrees or understands,
I don’t know why.
So I go to my room very quickly,
And try not to cry.
When no one agrees or understands,
I feel like I’m about to burst.
Why don’t they know? Isn’t it obvious?
Anger boils inside.
It’s like a tornado that I can’t control.
When no one agrees or understands,
Everything feels like a blur.
What did I do? What can I do?
What did I do to her?
The Bullies
By Angela
“I won’t do it and you can’t make me!” he shouted.
It was a hot, sunny day at school and the heat was driving Jonah crazy. And then, when he just wanted to be alone in the shade, a bunch of bullies came up to him and tried to get him to do a very disgusting dare. They got into an argument, and then everything exploded out of him.
“I won’t do it and you can’t make me!” Jonah shouted again.
“Who says so?” said one of the bullies.
“Just stop!” he yelled for the third time.
“Why?”
“I don’t like this!”
Jonah didn’t want to go and tell a teacher, because he thought that that would make him look like an idiot. It would make him look weak. It would make him look useless. He was afraid that the bullies would taunt him about that for the rest of the school year and maybe beyond. He was afraid that his friends might think he was a coward and that he wasn’t worth hanging out with.
But then the bully punched him in the face.
He’d had enough. He gave up on every single idea of not asking for help. He dashed out into the field, shouting, “Help! Help!” Everyone turned to look at him. But Jonah didn’t care. He just kept running. When he reached his teacher, he burst out everything he had been holding inside him.
“I was over there, trying to cool down in the shade, when these bunch of random guys showed up and told me to pick up the rotting banana peel on the blacktop and then tell them if there was anything left inside. I said no but they kept forcing me to and then when I shouted at them for the third time one of them punched me in the face and now my nose is bleeding!” Jonah said between heavy breaths.
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A while later Jonah came out of the nurse’s office with a tissue against his nose. Immediately, his best friend, Andrea, told him to go up to the office. Once he got there, the principal had this big talk about how we shouldn’t bully and all that. And at the end, Jonah was happy to know that the bullies would be missing recess for the whole week. They even apologized to him. He grinned as he walked back to his classroom. None of that would have happened if he had tried to solve the problem by himself.
“Jonah, are you okay?” one of his classmates asked him as he walked in.
“What happened?” someone else said.
“Do you need anything?”
And that’s when Jonah realized it. He knew that he needed to find help next time there was a problem. The bullies would just stop bullying him because they knew that they would get consequences. And his friends wouldn’t think he was a coward. They would just be glad that he was okay. And so was he.
Skyscraper
By Allison
So tall
Knuckles above the ground
Yelling people stand below
So many people stand short
Coming to meet the sky
Rolling upward
Are happy
Probably looking at Zeus
Eating nothing
Really far up
Have You Ever Heard of a Flying Elephant?
By Allison
Have you ever heard of a flying elephant? If you have not, then you have come to see the right book! It all started one day when a girl called Katherine was walking down a creek. Suddenly She saw a flying elephant! She ran as hard as she could, but she could not catch up! She went back to her town and told everyone about it! As soon as word got out, everyone was searching. Pretty soon one boy named JB found a whole herd of the same kind of elephants! Someone gave chase, a boy called Chip, and the herd was never seen again for two more centuries. Until one day, a boy named Hadley found another herd of those animals and then it started all over again. It kept going like that until a boy named Alex decided to stop it. He chased them all over the world, but finally, he accomplished his mission. So that is why there are no more flying elephants until one day…
Thunderclan Life
By Allison
His flame colored pelt a blur,
Ready to go to his new life.
The strong protects the weak,
The strong hunts for the weak.
Sharing, squabbling, playing, tumbling, training.
The mark of happiness.
Defending their territory,
That's their life.
Hunting, fighting, sleeping patrolling
That’s their life forever