* Check out the winner of this year's "Be Scared! Be Very, Very Scared!" Writing Competion below!

*Check out the cool link on plagiarism!  Click homework, "Writing" button.

*  Click homework, "Short Story & Poetry " button to bottom of page for links of 7th Grade Benchmark Prep work!

 

*  Click "Cool Links"
check out a new poetry website called ShadowPoetry!

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR "BE SCARED!" 2007-2008 WRITING COMPETITION WINNERS!

In Order of Periods, They Are:

MOST MACABRE:  Nicholas Javier, Sabrina Piumelli, Sydney Whitehead, Jillian Dukes, Morgan Marks

MOST HILARIOUS:  TJ Blake, Arieal Brooks, Kate Condon, Justin Wawrzyniak, Tam Nesvitskiy

MOST POIGNANT:  Lilly Meier, JJ Preston, Ashley Gersh, Cassidy Kinson, Stephanie McClure

TOP SIMILE:        Sierra Shaw:  "I am as skinny as a toothpick; my family is as crazy as a bedbug."

                         Austin Kirby: On an old headstone I saw green moldy fungus; it felt as slimy as slugs crawling    amongst us."

                         Ty Price: Our friendship is tarnished now, like an old piece of jewelry."

                         Noel Wilson: He looked as sad as a weeping willow."

                      Ashante Arnold: "They can be black as ink."

TOP METAPHOR:     Christina Jefferson: "We were cheetahs the way we ran down the stairs."

                          Matthew Kalley: "The house is the dungeon of death; the rats are a car's wheels because they both squeal."

                          Rachel Light: "Her eyes were a deep blue ocean of saphire gems."

                          Kaitlyn McCoy: "I still had the taste of fear in my mouth, the taste of cold, hard stone; the full moon is an eye, watching every move I make."

                           Amit Patel: "His insides were blasting fireworks with anxiousness."

TOP SENSORY DETAIL: Tyler Lower, Marie Sylvester, Leah Perreault, Connor Scott, Sandeep Rathod

TOP CONFLICT WITH UNEXPECTED RESOLUTION:  Lily Meier, Rickey Horvath, Regan Taylor, Mason Sutherland, Andrei Sujka

BEST DECORATION:  Aneicia Washington, Sabrina Piumelli, Dalton Burgstahler, Amy Vance, Lauren Kratzer

Opportunities for Gifted Students:

By Kids for Kids BKFK 2007 Invent

Gifted Opp 2007 Summer Program Flier-Karnes

Saturday Programs at Stetson University