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Lady or Tiger? || 🐅

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Ending ♡ By: Summer ♡

 

The youth stood feeling the longing eyes of the kingdom. His hands trembled and he started to wonder the princess’s intentions for him. Does she with death upon him, or does she wish life for him, but life with another?

 He started to sweat from the thought, he turned back to the princess, looking for a slight smile or sign of good, but as he turned back, out of the corner of his eye he thought he saw her look down and smirk. He started to question himself. The shouts and screams of the crowd were only getting louder and the youth needed to make a decision. This would only ever work if he trusted the princess.

 He trusted the princess…right? The crowd started to throw various objects at him, trying to push him to make the decision. The youth started to drag himself to the right door. Both hands clasped the squeaking door knob and the youth very slowly and shakily turned the knob, there was no turning back now. The crowd fell silent. Everyone sighed and got up and left. The crowd couldn’t help feeling guilty for the knights who would have to clean up the body.

 The princess immediately got up after the door. Her father, the king, tried to grab her arm and started to mumble out a halfhearted apology about her lover dying. She ran away as quickly as possible heading in the direction of the forest. She knew that the cleanup process could take hours and her father would have to stay around to order the knights. The princess’s plan was finally working, she would finally get to run away, and she didn’t care who had to suffer for her plan to work.

Thanks for reading my ending! Have a great day! <3

Our Tree Books!🌲 || ♡

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On March 15th me, and the entire 6th grade got to start working with Peg Gignoux!  Peg is a local artist, and she helped us create all of our tree books!  I am so happy that we got to work with her because I got to try lots of different art techniques, and I even got to be in an art gallery!

We first started out by screen printing, we got our hands on some poems about trees, and we screen printed them onto different paper.  I had the best time doing this and it was really satisfying for me! After that we got to the actual folding part of our books, this was a bit harder, but it pretty much created the entire foundation of the book! Akua ink was by far my favorite part of the process, we gathered greenery and flowers from school or our houses, and then we were able to get them on paper with lots of pretty colors!! Then we started collaging, this was fun because I got to take lots of the images from the dictionary and put them on my tree book, I have spiders, trees, dogs, farm animals, and birds all over my book from collaging! Before anything else, we added some pockets for our writing pieces! After we had done this our books all looked really pretty, and we started the writing part. I wrote my ‘Salute to my Roots’ writing next, I wrote about my former nanny, Hillary. I had a great time writing this because I knew that I would be able to use memories in my writing. After that we started by reading a poem called “When this is Over” I loved having an example and I wrote my own poem about what I would do when the pandemic is over!! Then we wrote our wishes, I have a lot and I wrote them all down, and tucked them away in the pockets of my tree book. Last, but not least, we have started reading the book “Wishtree” by Katherina Applegate, by the time I’ve posted it, we will have probably finished it!  I already love the book, and I am so excited to read more.

At the gallery I shared my Tree Book with my former nanny, my mom, my dad, and my brother; they all loved it! In conclusion, I had an amazing experience with this Tree Book!

Frances Dowell Blog Post!

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Hello! Today I wanted to talk about My Frances Dowell story that I have had the chance to work on for a while now!

Some things I learned from Frances are how to make a successful background check! I had never done one before, and I didn’t realize how helpful it was to have when you are tryng to teach your reader about the characters in your story! Another thing I learned from Frances is how incredibly important detail is.  I have worked really hard to include detail in my story so that it comes to life and really makes the reader understand the story I am trying to tell.  It feels so crazy that I got to learn these amazing elements of a story from a real successful author!!

Getting feedback from Frances was beyond helpful because I got to figure out what needed to be changed or just what my story could add to make it overall a better story.  A big thing I learned from hearing my peers stories and then hearing Frances talk about it is how detail will effect your story.  For example, a lack of detail will make your story hard to connect with or understand, but on the other hand having detail will let your reader understand the characters, settings, and problems a lot better!  The feedback that I gathered from Frances is detail, (like I said) and creating a more thorough background check for my main characters.

I am very proud of my story. I didn’t think I could actually write something that interests someone else.  I forget sometimes how much I like writing and how happy it makes me, so thank you so much Frances! I want to continue to write stories in all different genres and I want to  be able to be good at not just creative writing, but writing for schoolwork.  Thank you so much Frances!!  I’m so lucky I got to meet you and get help from you for a story of my own!