Rumman by Nick T.

Rumman walked into class quietly and in a hurry. She denied all donuts offered to her, and sat in silence. She ate pretzels and a snicker bar at snack time, hoping to gain energy for her big day. She was applying for a job at Urban Outfitters. Rumman had dreamt of working at Urban Outfitters her entire life. Whenever she walked into the homey store, she would stare down the cashier workers there observing their hip actions. She wanted to be just like them. She went home every day and practiced in the mirror. “Hey what’s up? Just the striped hoody and the jeans? Alright, sounds great!”
She continued to think about all this in silence when Teacher Kate smacked a huge white board upon Rumman’s desk. Rumman was very startled and produced a very frightened facial expression. She shied away with her glitter glue and created a cardboard facebook. It took her all of 15 minutes. Looking around her, she noticed that others had not yet completed their facebooks. She had worked quickly and efficiently. She again began to think about her job interview. It made her nervous. She began to text her friend Megan Doe. Megan consoled her, but Rumman knew that Megan could not care less.

The Fight

The screaming, yelling, fighting. Hearing constant cursing back and forth. Blood flying across his face onto the wooden floor, tears rolling down my face. My eyes looking shot red. I can’t stop crying. The pain. The misery. I hate this; why didn’t I have a voice?

Chang. by A.Wig

Character Sketch-Chang

Chang sat at his desk looking down at the tan colored table. He didn’t say much to anyone. While looking down at the desk he fiddled with his glasses. Students started to pile into the classroom: talking, laughing, making noise. Chang still remained silent, not letting anyone hear his Taiwanese accent. He was too busy thinking about what he was going to do when he got home, probably nothing.
A teacher walked into the classroom and told everyone to get out their notebooks. Chang did so accordingly. The teacher started lecturing about the fall of the Roman Empire, while Chang doodled on the side of his paper. Although not paying much attention to his teacher, when asked a question, he answered it correctly. At the end of class, the teacher handed back a test from last Tuesday. Chang received a B, however, he didn’t care much. The bell rang and Chang scooted out of class with his blue and white running sneakers. While making his way to his next class, he thought about if he wanted to play a computer game when he got home, or not.

Alex’s Character Bio

When she walked into the classroom I saw her wearing a green and white head band and matching top. She was also wearing a pair of blue jeans. Every time I looked at Alex’s face I saw that she had a smile on her face. This told me that she is confident with herself and outgoing. Honestly she isn’t the tallest person in the world but she makes up for it by being so friendly and wearing bright and luminous jewelry. She is also very smart because she going to the best High School in the city, Masterman. She is so concerned with how she looks that she will sacrifice being comfortable to look good. For example on Tuesday she was wearing a red top. She then began to tell me that it made her uncomfortable, then I asked “why are you wearing it then?” then she said ” because it matched the rest of my outfit.”

Reflection Summary, Monday 7.21.08

What stood out was…

Making MySpace pages

Writing bulletins

Writing seems fun!

Group work

Learning about each other

How close we will all become

The list we made about ourselves

How to make characters

Learning other peoples’ travels

How enjoyable this will be

We learned that good writing is…

Writing and making sense

Using little details to describe my character

Character is plot

Characterizing

Planning before you write

Exploring topics

Using characteristics and outer appearance when writing about people

Creating characters, making good characters

Many things!

Expressing a lot about you

Showing, not telling

Having ways to figure out what you should write about

What I learned about myself as a writer was…

I am actually good

It’s good to learn about different people who are similar to you

I have a gift

I have a fast thought stream

I can show instead of tell

I am giving myself a challenge

I can observe a lot of things

I have a good imagination

I can use things from my life for a story

My plans or goals are to…

Start writing about what I feel about things that go on in my life

Make characters

Write a short story

Remember what I learned for another time

Go farther in my poetry and stories

Take it with me when I go to my high school

Work harder with my writing and putting ideas together

Using descriptions and actions to describe a character rather than telling

Do the assignments tonight

Read the story and observe the characters

I’d like to learn more about…

The strange things in writing, like 2^nd person

How to put pieces on blogs on the internet

My character sketch person

Anything interesting

Writing

Describing people

Different kinds of things you can do with your writing

What we’ve learned, more in depth

Everything

Wording and vocabulary

Other thoughts, comments, questions:

I would like to know more about the other kids and about writing.

I enjoyed today.

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