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Student Writing: Personal Narratives




Featured Poet:
E. E. Cummings
Biography

maggie and milly and molly and may
By E. E. Cummings


maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach(to play one day)

and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles,and

milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;

and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and

may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.

For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea


The Big Surprise
By: Jaylynn C.

On Friday after my dad came home, I saw my brother (Wesley) with my dad! I was so surprised that I wanted to explode! I said to my mom “I thought he wasn’t coming.” When he got in the house my dad helped him with his homework. After that we went to sleep.


The next morning we built a costume, it was a table but Wesley was the table. We went to the white house. Every game we played he had to take the costume off. We played the remember game, pen drop, walk the plank, and treasure box. There's one game we did not play and that was ping pong shoot. Then my brother won the costume contest! Not in an exciting way, I said "Hooray" for him. Once we got home we ate candy.


On Sunday we did an obstacle course. Then we went out side and played catch, double Dutch, and we ate more candy. When we played double Dutch my dad played with us. I think my dad does not turn the rope very good.


Wesley had to go home about 6:00-7:00 p m. I did not go ride with him home. My dad and my mom drove him home. We had a lot of fun together that weekend! I love him a lot.


The Trip To Florida
By Diamond P.

Bam! The doors shut and we were off. We are going to Florida! It was a long ride. We got to Florida at 4:00 a.m. My mom and dad rented two rooms. We had a room next to my mother and father. We had to open the doors so that my parents could keep an eye on us so we would not break anything in the room we slept in.

When it was morning we went down stairs to eat a free breakfast. After an hour we went up stairs to put on our swimsuits to go to the hotel’s pool! When we got there I dived in the pool and started to get dunked by my sisters and played with our beach balls.

After we got out of the pool we went to a buffet. I ate popcorn shrimp with fries and a fruit punch. After we ate we ordered some crabs and crab legs to take. It was raining really hard and about 6 inches of rain fell! When we got to the hotel we were drenched.

We changed into our bed clothes and ate our crabs and went to sleep. The next morning we left the hotel and we went to IHOP for breakfast and I ate pancakes, bacon and a sprite. Then, we ordered some funnel cakes and went back in the car and went home so that we could plan another trip for summer vacation!
Personal Narrative
By: Tyreese D.

Bam! The car door shut I ran to the hotel. I was with my mother, brother and my sister it was big inside the hotel. My mother got the key to our room. It was called “master quest.”


We changed and went to the water park. When we went back to our room we ordered movies on the TV. Then, we went to sleep. The next morning, we went back to the water park. I got on the water slide; then we went home.
Wild, Wild, West
By: Kayla F.


When I went to my family reunion I told my mom I felt great. We went to Shoppers to buy a cake; it was coconut. After we got the cake we went back home to get dressed. Then we were off to the reunion! First we said hi to each other and talked, then we started the show.


The show was dancing, a fashion show, and ball room dancing. The young cowgirls who are my cousins are Paige, Jamese, and I. The songs we danced to were, “Told Yaw,” “I jump like This’’ and “Wild, Wild ,West.” All of us danced to a song. Paige danced to “Pop Lock and Drop It.”


Jamie danced to “This is why I’m Hot, and I danced to “Walk It Out.” Everybody enjoyed it. They smiled and danced .Then we took pictures. After we took pictures we did the cha slide and the soldier boy. All the teenagers got up and did it and the young cowgirls.
The Cruise of Trouble
By: Joseph E.

“Are we really going on a cruise mom,” I asked. “That’s right sweety,” she said. I was so excited that I was going on my first cruise , and I was also a little nervous, but I swallowed my fear and took that long walk up the support platform and got on board.

Exploring the Ship

Right after my whole family got on board, my cousins and I went exploring the ship. It had a buffet, a pool, an arcade, a tattoo shop, a club, and a dessert parlor. So, you can imagine, I was pretty busy.


But if I had to pick my favorite part of the cruise it would be the club. I stayed there the whole night dancing even though I’m not that good. After everybody cleared out, my twin cousins, a few other people, and myself stayed there the whole night until the party ended.


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