Student Publication
updated 06 February 2008 06:16:20 PM

All of these compositions represent the students' best efforts. None have been edited or corrected by an adult. Please forgive any weaknesses you find as these pieces are written by students learning to compose.

The following compositions have been written by members of the Class of 2010.

Papers-of-Many-Parts

• Hojin Kim on The Color of Water
• Alisha Cecil, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
• Aurora MacDougall, The Lovely Bones

Responses to Free-Choice Books

• Aurora MacDougall on Ellen Foster
• Valerie Biles on The Bean Trees

Vignettes

• Melissa Wisniewski, "Yummy"
• Harry Chung, "Young Gun" and "Almost Orphan"
• Valerie Biles, "Twinkie" and "$2"
• Hojin Kim, "Giant Stone" and "Neighbor on the 16th Floor"
• Sarah Koehler, "Shrimp Boats, Sisters, and Mint Tea" and "Summer Gales and Thunderstorms"

Personal Essays

• Logan Burchett, "The Things I Carry with Him"
• Janine Brown, "Taking the First Step"
• Anonymous, "The Institute"
• Daniel Smith, "The Wandering Mind"
• Chris Hoover, "Remember That Class?"
• Mary Patsimas, "Espanol"
• Hunter Walker, "Sometimes It's Better to Learn What Not to Do"
• Hojin Kim, "To Be Like Salt in the Sea"
• Harry Chung, "Korea? USA?"

Declamation Introductions

• Mary Patsimas, Candide

The following works were composed by members of the Class of 2009.

Huck Finn Projects

• Erin McMahon, "Generalizations Are NOT Sexy"
• Elizabeth Moss, posters for School display
• Soyoung Choi, Blog

Scarlet Letter Essays

• Soyoung Choi, "The Wild Flower"
• Elizabeth Moss, "An Angel of Judgment"

Author Study Responses

• Ik-Hwan Kim on For Whom the Bell Tolls

Declamation Introductions

• Sam Bartlett, Fahrenheit 451
• Sorin Choi, The Color Purple
• Mintaro Oba, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
• Emmett Miller, Feed

Personal Essays

• Sutton Jones, "The Things I Carry"
• Erin McMahon, "2-Liter Coke"
• Elizabeth Moss, "My Mr. Hyde"
• Darrell Winfree, "Murder, She Wrote, Travis Bickle, and eBay"
• Sorin Choi, "Banana"
• Soyoung Choi, "Be a Wise Woman"
• Do Hyun Kim, "One Last Hand"
• Paul Myers, "Through My Eyes"
• Sam Bartlett, "Floating Discs and Hovering Gods"

Vignettes

• Elizabeth Moss, "Piano Lesson"
• Dana Smith, "Butterscotch" and "Lights Out"
• Emmett Miller, "Music Gets in the Way"
• Ik Hwan Kim, "A Boy Only for Nine Months" and "The Requiem of Nature"
• Sangbum Im, "Conquering English"
• Sorin Choi, "Enchanted World of My Own" and "Symphony of the First Ride"
• Seungho Chun, "Coloring My Canvas"
• John Newman, "The Tent Over Gravel"
• Sam Bartlett, "Icy Morning Car Rides to Bliss" and "Powder and Sky"

Essays about Tony Earley's Voice

• Do-Hyun Kim, "Characteristics of Tony Earley's Voice"
• Ik Hwan Kim, "What Senior Jim Glass Left for His Son"
• Sorin Choi, "The Weight of the Past"

Vocabulary

• Scotty Wisniewski, Independent Vocabulary Assignment
• Do Hyun Kim, Independent Vocabulary Assignment
• Erin McMahon, Independent Vocabulary Assignment

Summer Reading: Papers-of-Many-Parts

• Elizabeth Moss on The Color Purple
• Erin McMahon on Autobiography of a Face
• Erin McMahon on A Confederacy of Dunces
• Erin McMahon on Slaughterhouse-Five
• Sophie Stauffer on The Member of the Wedding
• Sophie Stauffer on The Joy Luck Club
• Sophie Stauffer on Warriors Don't Cry
• Dana Smith on Slaughterhouse-Five
• Dana Smith on Malcolm X
• Dana Smith on The Lovely Bones

The following works were composed by members of the Class of 2008.

Summer Reading

• Hannah Kay Hunt, Approach Paper on The Reivers
• Hannah Kay Hunt, Approach Paper on Jim the Boy

Reading Responses

• Liana Krajnak on Annie Dillard's An American Childhood
• Robert Bray on Carl Hiaasen's Skinny Dip
• Liana Krajnak on Lucky You
• Hannah Kay Hunt on The Things They Carried

Vignettes

• Jin-ah Lim, The Most Ugly Potato Likes Me
• Jin-ah Lim, Umma Who Makes Me Smile like the Happy Yellow Moon
• Michelle Iorio, Ice
• Luke Corley, Fun
• Luke Corley, Stairs of Doom
• Liana Krajnak, Liana at Large
• Liana Krajnak, The Logs
• Robert McKee, White Veil
• Teresa Castellon, My Home
• Teresa Castellon, Culture in a Market
• Emily Dyer, Drive to Adulthood
• Samantha Saunders, Morning Glories
• Samantha Saunders, Swimming in Peanuts

Personal Essay

• Liana Krajnak, "Solving with the Reciprocal"

Analytical Essay about The Scarlet Letter

• Robert Bray, "Nature Is a Refuge"
• Liana Krajnak, "Shards of a Society"

Huck Projects

• Liana Krajnak, "Does Crossing Cross the Like of Appropriate Racial Jokes?" (review)
• Kate Webb, "Listen to Intuition" (speech)

Author Study Responses

• Hannah Kay Hunt on High Tide in Tucson

Vocabulary

• Luke Corley

The following works were composed by members of the Class of 2007.

Huck Finn Projects

• Rachel Follis (letter)
• Scott Barnett (blog)
• David Windham (recipe)
• Laura Sherrell (short story)
• E (advice column)
• Maggie Cloyd (essay)
• Anna Huddleston (Huck Finn Project)

Author Study Annotations

• Anna Huddleston, Father Melancholy
• E, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
• Laura Sherrell, White Noise
• Rachel Follis, Thurber
• Anna Huddleston, Evensong
• Rachel Follis, Final Annotation

Declamation Introductions

• Jack Barton, The Things They Carried
• Marilee Hyde, Speak
• E, The Grapes of Wrath
• Laura Sherrell, Middlesex
• David Windham, Slaughterhouse-Five

Scarlet Letter Essays

• Pearl's Happy Life, Laura Sherrell
• Hester as Moral Blossom, Karen Linton
• A Strange Chance, Anna Huddleston