Robotics | Border Voices Poetry |
TaiChi | Guitar |
| First Place, Secondary Division | Fourth Place, Secondary Division |
| Pieces I'm changing my ways now I'm not going to be known as the girl who loked upside down in the mirror and asked herself, Hmm...what am I going to do today I'm going to pick up the pieces and start from the beginning I only have one life, so now it's time to take a big step and pick up the pieces I'm going to start from each corner and the edges like I do puzzles Then I'm going to start form each corner and the edges like I do puzzles Then I'm going to put all the inisde pieces in the right spots until I can find the very last piece and put it in That last piece There will be a new girl who loks up in the mirror instead of looking upside down at someone else I'm am going to be someone new Someone I have never met before Nohelani Augustine Grade 10, John Muir School Poet-teacher: Jackleen Holton Classroom Teacher: Patricia Hurt | A Kingdom of My Own I spead my arms out wide, the wind billowing my hair behind me. I reach around to pull it back to my shoulders. "Wind, cease," I say, and it stops immediately, because in this world, I am the ruler. A castle looms in the mist, and I float down to the highest tower, feeling the cold stone beneath my feet. My stomach squeezes inside me, and I imagine myself into a dining room with a feast spread across the long table. Bread, cheese, soups galore. I pick a small slice of cheddar on sourdough, then imagine myself in front of a door. A purple door. A certain door that leaves my realm. I reach out and grab the doorknob and pull it open. I knw I have to get back to the real world where I am not in charge, where ther are people above me. I take a breath and plunge into the maze of darkness that awaits. Nittaya Evans Grade 8, John Muir School Poet-teacher: Jackleen Holton Classroom teacher: Chet Hancock |