For the last few weeks stage 5 students have been completing their English module. They have studied a play Fossils which explores the relationship between children and their parents. I was excited to see the majority of students engaging with the play and enjoying its humour. At the end of the module students were to complete a creative writing task to show a way in which teenagers were misunderstood. Reading some of the stories I was impressed with the creative writing of some of our students….here is a snapshot of a few.
It was a beautiful winter morning in the old country town of Orroroo, 270 kilometres north of Adelaide, South Australia. This was a somewhat regular morning, like any other. The birds were singing, the trees were dancing with the chilling wintery breeze. It was just about to strike 7am when Veronica’s alarm went off: “Baby you light up my world like nobody else” (One Direction). Veronica groaned slowly as she slothed her way out of bed. As her feet crash heavily onto the dark chocolate floor boards, her mother Anastasia chimes “Good Morning Veronica.”
Year 9 Student
“The best days of your life” they say, “what I wouldn’t give to be your age again” they tell you. What do they know? Unless teenage life has altered dramatically since their day they surely must have been living in a parallel universe, because as most teenage kids will tell you, if this is the best it gets, why bother with the rest of it? Why bother with the dull endless grind that is exams, college and academia, why endure the endless torture from the stuck up, no matter which way you look at it, much more powerful than you in every way, shape and or form teachers? Why struggle to not end up with a low end, doomed for life job working at a rundown McDonalds, I mean really, what’s the point? Because when you’re out the back slaving over a hot grill, constantly being splattered from head to toe with scolding hot oil and being shouted at by the fat, pimply faced, looks like he’s never run in his entire life store manager who’s telling you you’re not working hard enough, things don’t seem quite so rosy.
Year 10 Student
It’s a cold winters evening, on the last day of July. Sophie and her family are
sitting quietly by the fireplace listening to the crackling of the kindling. It’s the
day before Sophie is going to be walking out on the field, playing for her
home country England, for the final of the World Cup against arch rivals
Spain. She is thinking to herself quietly hoping that her dad wouldn’t
embarrass her in front of thousands of people. The family have a big roast
dinner and then Julie heads of to bed.Year 10 Student
I am sure you will agree that we have some budding writers!!
Bec
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