Connecticut Student Writers
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Connecticut Student Writers Volume XXIX 2017 Connecticut Writing Project-Storrs Staff Director Meg Bakken Jason Courtmanche, Ph.D. Jacqueline Kremer Vicky Nordlund Graduate Assistant John Wetmore Evangeline Van Houten Alex Rode Danielle Pieratti Undergraduate Interns Caitlin Donahue Katherine Kelly Barbara Greenbaum Megha Pancholi Bridget O’Connor Roxanne Gentry Art Consultant Liza Escott Elsa Nocton Lauren Shafer Michelle Dafjek Submission Selection Committee Rebecca DiPinto Jason Courtmanche Jennifer Norman Evangeline Van Houten Tiffany Harvison Jane Cook Amanda Navarra Kelly Andrews-Babcock Marcy Rudge Editors-in-Chief Susan Laurençot Susan Laurençot Kim Kraner Marcy Rudge Alexandria Bottelsen Erika Karwowski Section Editors Mollie Kervick Marcy Rudge (K-2) Paul Hanuch Kelly Andrews-Babcock (3-4) Kathi Gudmundson Alex Rode (5-6) Sandy Geres Jane Cook (7-8) Courtney Rarl Danielle Pieratti (9-10) Glenda Reilly Kim Kraner (9-10) Diane Ayer Susan Laurençot (11-12) Printer Document Production Center University of Connecticut 3 North Hillside Rd, Unit 6065 Storrs, CT 06269-6065 Email: [email protected] Phone: (860) 486-2022 Fax: (860) 486-1205 1 Table of Contents Foreword(s) Marcy Rudge and Susan Laurençot Jason Courtmanche Kindergarten Dr. Martin Luther-King—My Hero Story La-Kyra Campbell 6 Reading with Vivian Kyla Lunding 6 Thank you Arianna Most 6 How to Make a Smoothie Lily Sun 6 The Good Monster Alaina Nikitas 7 Birds Julia Schreiber 7 First Grade How to Be a Big Sis Lia Kimani 8 The Magic Piece of Chocolate Martha Smith 9 How to Feed Lois Grade Greenwood 9 Butterflies (with art) Nolan Waring 10 Stop Fighting (with art) Raha Esmaili Zaghi 11 The Sun is Up Leilah Rodriguez-Doubleday 11 Second Grade Lucy Finds Her Way Jane Carty 13 Cats Siena Giangrave 15 Dolphins Ariana Masis 16 Winning Isn’t Everything Callum Young 16 The Earth is a Perfect Place for ME Connor Broderick 17 Third Grade Naughty Cat Jackson Bates 19 The Second Time Hephaestus Was Thrown Jack Reynolds 20 Out The Window A Wonderful Adventure Evan Angelo 22 All About Sharks Ali McCarthy 22 Snowflakes Cassandra Santiago 23 The Pond Rachel Simmons 23 Fourth Grade The Perfect Walk Claire Hart 25 Trapped Emily Pennington 26 My Ocean Wildlife Adventure Peter Morand 28 My First Race Alexa Orsey 28 Opposite Day Madelyn Katzer 30 The March Emma Mulligan 30 Fifth Grade Breaking Free Ethan Hanzlik 32 A Moment Under the Stars Haley Evans 33 The Wedding Stella Mahlke 34 All is Beautiful When I Dream Tovah Lowry 35 Lost Amanda Kelly 36 Meeting My Mom and Dad Joanna Raczkowski 37 Sixth Grade Nothing Lasts Forever Makena Culligan 40 Run Aiden Peterson 40 The Ocean Mishap Gretchen Davis 41 2 A Day at the Hospital Anna Lavallee 43 Tears Layla Lasisomphone 43 Tunnel Keane Stanton 44 Fiddler in the Night Henry Denton 44 Seventh Grade A Strange Day in July Ashley Dorais 46 Bubbles Cameryn Wilkinson 48 A Wild Goose Chase Cayleigh Goberman 50 His Legacy Maria Proulx 51 The Reading Dance Victoria Cannon 52 The Meadow Nora Youtz 53 Eighth Grade In Favor of Stars Elyza Bruce 54 Gazing Hill Allison Su 56 Living the “And Up” Life Emily Brouder 57 Oliver Twist: A Classic of Our Time Aresh Pourkavoos 58 Baby Shoes Carley Simler 60 A Snowman Juliet Young 60 Ninth Grade Easy Steps to Fit in for Girls ~ 2016 Edition Samantha Sims 62 TV Together Sophie Spaner 62 I Am Raven Joseph 64 Of Adams and Ants Abby Lateer 65 Tenth Grade Pho-Drenched Dreams Sanjeev Ashokkumar 67 The Boy with the Jasmine Flower Pei Chao Zhuo 68 The Universe Before You Sarai Mapp 69 My Mommy, The Picasso Rachel Justice 70 Broken Crayons Still Color Ame Tsamaase 71 The Daughter Molly Fording 73 Paragon of Aphrodite/Art of Being Beautiful Jordan Pelletier 74 Eleventh Grade Hypersonic David Hettinger 76 The Case of a Math Test in a Court of Stuffed Animals Katelyn Mullen 77 Why Can’t I Say “You?” Saomai Nguyen 79 Hammock Nature Story Rory O’Connor 82 Vows; A Golden Shovel in Two Parts Grace Bassick 83 Sword Swallowers (Vocal Chords) Alex Castro 83 Terminal Kaleigh Perkins 84 Young Witches Mae Santillo 84 Twelfth Grade I’m Sorry If I’m a Little Crazy Daniella Derraugh 87 He/She/It Gabrielle Stonoha 88 Glow Gabrielle Stonoha 90 Falling for Me Juliet Duchesne 91 Borrowed Words Mechelle Horelick 92 Pretty House Meagan Thomas 93 Magpie Pamela Richter 94 3 Artwork Front Cover We Have A Dream, Alicia Chiang, Tolland High School Dr. Martin Luther King La-Kyra Campbell 6 Nian the Monster Julia Schreiber 7 Sunset Ellen Hill 8 The Animal Tree Evelyn Cohen 12 The Beauty of Spring Leah Berey 17 Turf the Toucan Abby Ditzel 18 Dream Horse Mallory Mori 23 Whale Nory McDonald 24 The Vampire Sisters Sang Do 29 Elephant Ellie Holden 31 Seeing the City Carly DeRocco 31 Night Howler Arielle Burrows 35 My Dream Dog Mariana Marti 36 Flower in the Public Gardens Valerie Auwarter 36 Trapped Within Butterflies Lane Russell 38 Peacock’s Strut Henry Denton 39 Aloha Karthika Siva 42 Dream Meena Behringer 44 Exploring Guinea Ellie Johnson 45 Morocco Madline Oh 45 Life of Senegal Dianna Palacios 45 Layers of Chad Alicia Qin 45 Taste of Tunisia Saskia Jakubin 45 Creative Map of Egypt Scarlet Fishkind 45 Madagascar Sara Raghavan 45 Mothusi Kayla Ferjuste 45 Vases and Fruits Maggie Liu 46 The Hour of Pink and Gold Isabelle Busch 53 Islands of a Fantasy Wendy Zhang 54 Smile Sophie Spaner 61 The Bird Audrey Finn 66 Green Solace Isabelle Busch 75 Étretat, France Megan McKern 86 Back Cover Mary Jane’s Afternoon, Stella Mahlke, Sarah Noble Intermediate School Honorable Mentions 97 Teachers of Published Authors and Artists 104 Teachers Honored for Multiple Student Honorees 107 4 Forewords Artists have always found a way to speak. Mark Twain, abolitionist and anti-imperialist, used satire as a form of free speech and protest. Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle inspired President Roosevelt to create the FDA. Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel) championed questioning authority and respecting individuals. He wrote Horton Hears a Who after visiting Japan and seeing the horrors of the atomic bomb; as the Environmental Protection Movement was beginning, Seuss recognized the interrelatedness of nature in The Lorax. Vera B. Williams’s books celebrate multicultural families that share love and unity. In recent years, we’ve seen the rise of Slam and Spoken Word; we’ve witnessed artists such as the Guerrilla Girls and Banksy take to the streets. Shephard Fairey, made famous by his criticism of society by plastering a city with images of Andre the Giant with the slogan “Obey,” re-ignited his fame with the now iconic image of Barack Obama bearing the slogan “Hope.” This past year Fairey created the beautiful posters of women from the series “We the People.” Artists have always found a way to speak, and art has always caused a stir. In you, the student writers and artists of Connecticut, we put our trust that you will continue to stir the pot; we celebrate the work you have already done and charge you with the work of continuing to use your voices to make a change and to create a country and a world of your design. Susan Laurençot and Marcy Rudge On one coffee table in our living room we have past copies of Connecticut Student Writers, alongside copies of The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards National Catalog, The Writer’s Chronicle, Glimmer Train, and other magazines. Another end table holds coffee table books of art and a copy of Knowledge is Beautiful, which is this wonderful blend of art, math, and science. Copies of The Hartford Courant, The Willimantic Chronicle, and the Sunday New York Times litter the kitchen counter. We have a rack of music CDs near the television and a box of vinyl albums by a turntable in the nearby office. We have book shelves in every room of our house, as well as in the hallways and stairwell. In a 2015 op-ed in the New York Times, novelist Teddy Wayne discussed a study that demonstrated the importance of print books, print newspapers and periodicals, and actual albums and CDs of music. The study showed that, even among equally educated families, the children of those families whose literacy was artifactual were significantly more literate than the children of those families whose literacy was electronic. The reason was that, in homes where there were print books on shelves, print newspapers on counters, print magazines on coffee tables, and tangible CDs or albums in racks or on shelves, children were significantly more likely to pull down books, pick up periodicals, or pop in CDs out of passing curiosity, whereas children in digitally literate families had to rely upon access to mom or dad’s kindle or iTunes account, or digital subscriptions to newspapers or magazines. Homes with literacy artifacts quite simply were more successful at encouraging the curiosity of children. Many literacy experts stress the importance of making literacy activities authentic. In the home, this means letting our children forage among our books and periodicals and CDs. In the classroom, this means giving our students opportunities to read and write about subjects that are of interest to them, and it means giving them an audience and a purpose for writing. At the Connecticut Writing Project, we pride ourselves on the fact that, for almost thirty years, Connecticut Student Writers has given students a venue for authentic writing. More than 1,500 students of 400 teachers from 200 schools submitted their writing to our magazine this year.