Publish polished student writing inspired by this contest-winning photo here!

[Publishing Voice]

Each year, the WritingFix website sponsors a Digital Photo Contest for students and teachers nationwide.  The goal is for students to take pictures that would inspire their classmates to want to write the "story behind a picture."

 

Click here to access WritingFix's Digital Photo Resource Page! 

 

At right, you see the student-winning digital photograph from our 2009 contest.  It was taken by middle school student Trae Jones.

 

If you use this photo in class as a writing prompt, and then have a student like what they're writing so much that they take their writing through the writing process, we want to see their published stories posted here!

 

No rough drafts please.  We're looking for polished writing inspired by this photograph!  Final drafts of stories can be pasted or attached in the "Reply to This" box below.

 

Very Important:  Teachers, please only share your students' first name and grade level with us when you post the writing on their behalf.  Do not post last names or school names, or the posts will be deleted.

 

Twenty-five Teachers every semester will win a free classroom resource!  Each semester, we choose 25 new students to publish at our online lessons directly at the world-famous WritingFix website. To have your students' writing considered, it can be posted below in the box underneath  this posting.  In November and May, we will select the 25 students whose writing impressed us the most, and if your student(s) is selected, you will be asked to choose from any of the NNWP Print Publications (http://www.unr.edu/educ/nnwp/publications.html) for us to send to your classroom.

 

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--Corbett Harrison, WritingFix Webmaster

[Beatriz Soto]

"Neverending Road" by Kathya, Grade 10

 

This never ending road starts off as my mind sets off and my heart pumps blood

Emotions run deep, thoughts pacing through my head.

The feeling of unknown takes over control.

I’m just a spiritual being living in a human being, experiencing on this never ending road.

This life may have bumps but that’s just the way it goes.

I try to chase after my dreams but trip over and fall.

I get back up and work twice as hard.

I’m doing the impossible for my ungrateful self, they tell me never give up but I don’t think they tell themselves.

Life struck me hard like a lightning bolt, but I will walk with my head up.

Like the winner that I am with a heart of gold, I’m in it till it’s over in this never ending road.

[Beatriz Soto]

“Long Road” by Carol, Grade 10

 

The two roads ahead of us

Are life choices

What we decide to make of ourselves

Choose what road we walk on

Whether it be good or bad

Ugly or pretty

Just know that it was its ups and downs

But it can still lead you

To where you want.

[Nancy Schneider]

                                          Road to Heaven

 

 

Still so sad ‘bout October 9^th

when pop-pop died

and so did I

 

I took a walk down morning fall

I saw the new road

and not the wall

 

It was a tan rocky path

that I had never seen

before

 

I ask myself

what does this lead to?

And heard a voice that sounded like pa-pa’s

 

I pinched myself thinking

it’s a dream

 

I hear it again

and know it’s him

 

I shed a tear from left eye to right

he says,

“Kayla to answer you question

This road leads to heaven.

See you Soon

I love you.”

 

By:  Kayla

 

[Nancy Schneider]

Long Dirt Road

 

Long like a highway,

Wavy like the tide,

Wiggly like a snake.

 

You are the serpent of the road

Swallowing up people as they go.

The sticks are your back fin,

The road is your side.

 

A mystery of where you lead,

A house, a farm, woods, a beach?

A tree of a giant peach?

 

Long like a dragon’s tail.

The foot-made trail.

Leading who-knows-where,

It’s a long way there.

 

By: Kevin

 

 

 

[Nancy Schneider]

This Road That I Walk Down…

 

 

This road that I walk down,

this old dusty dirt road.

 

This road that I walk down

where no sounds can be heard.

 

This road that I walk down

 tells a story from the past.

 

This road that I walk down

 is where memories will last.

 

This road that I walk down

 has seen some better days.

 

 This road that I walk down

 is in sort of a haze.

 

Not sure how to get back to the better days.

 

 

 

By: The Walker (Paige)

 

[Nancy Schneider]

Life

 

I once stumbled on to a road.

All quiet and sad.

Tiny petite fences stood parallel to the road.

This reminded me of life.

 

For life is like a road,

you never where it will take you.

 

I thought and said to my self

“Let’s travel and see what can be seen.”

 

I took the first step

and saw a sight

in which I realized what life had become

 

and smiling more or less.

I started my own.

 

                                                       By:  Willow

[Lauren Sansone]

Never  Ending  Path

By:Emily

Grade 3

 

This path is foggy and dry but it could lead you to a guide. Maybe you see something funny like

a clown. Maybe it tastes to me as if it was a land of sweet honey. I saw some guards blocking a honey comb it  got me stuck I thought I was finding my way home. I learned my lesson to be sure never to go in this path not even in my imagination any more.

 

 

 

[Lauren Sansone]

Look up!  There is a beautiful blue sky in the air, a shiny huge big grassy hill on the side of the road. On the fence on the hill there is a big furry rooster. There is a path that never ends but one place. There is a truck driving up the path. It leads to an abandoned house and a shed. Finally there is a dog chasing after the truck driving fast up the path.

 

By: Tyler Grade 3

[Lauren Sansone]

WRONG TURN

BY BRYCE

Grade 3

One time when I walked home in kindergarten I got lost. This is my journey. I was walking home and I made a wrong turn so I got lost. I tried my cell phone, but I didn’t get a signal. I could get to a park from there. So I walked through the trees. I saw a house that looked like mine, but it wasn’t. It was dark out so the ranger closed the park. I could see but I was trapped. So I climbed to the top of the fence. I climbed down a little and then I jumped. I landed on my knee it hurt but I continued wondering. Soon I found what I was looking for. But when I got to my house my family wasn’t there. So I waited on my porch trying to call my family. Eventually, they came back and I was fine.

 

[Lauren Sansone]

    The Path

By: Emiliano

Grade 3

See the blue sky it so blue like a blue berry

there are no cars and open field

you see a white bunny across the road

in the night you can see the beautiful  stars you can see a brown squirrel climbing a oak tree

and the big yellow sun it  is so shiny it slows down traffic

 

[Lauren Sansone]

The Path That Leads to a Waterfall of Animals

By; Jaya

Grade 3

 

 

I was walking down the path with my friends. My friend and I saw a chicken a roaster, a pig, a cow, a dog, and a sheep when we were walking. Then my friends thought it was leading us to a farm. I thought it was leading us to a little house that has a lot of farm animals. So my friends and I kept on walking down the path. On our way we saw corn and a man digging carrots. So my friends said maybe you’re right it is leading us to a little house. When we finally got there we were both wrong it lead us to a waterfall. My friend said then how did all these farm animals get here? Maybe it’s a farm waterfall. We walked and saw a man his name was Fred we asked him then how did all those animals get here. It’s a farm waterfall he said. He explained that a farm waterfall is where animals live beneath a waterfall. I was right I said. Then we stayed there for days and then we said thank you for telling us about the farm waterfall. Then we left and went back where we had come from.               

[Lisa Langlois]

Corey

6th Grader

 

Long Road To Nowhere

“Huh huh,” said Pete, panting like a dog.

            “Whoooo, whoooo,” went the sirens of a police car.

            “Hurry,” called Shane, lugging a duffle bag.

            “Coming, I’m the one who’s carrying the golden bricks. You are the one carrying the money which is a lot lighter than gold bricks,” argued Pete.

            “It’s not my fault you wanted to go for the gold,” stated Shane.

            “Just wait okay,” declared Pete.

            “Alright, I’ll wait,” uttered Shane angrily.

            Shane waited for Pete to come closer. He offered to take some of the gold from Pete, but for some reason Pete didn’t let him take it. After three seconds the boys started running again towards their house on the outskirts of town.

When they got closer to their house they saw the S.W.A.T. in front of their neighbor’s house. Then they saw several men pop out of the truck like little ants.

The first one threw a canister into their house. After a loud bang they could see smoke forming inside the house. Another man had a mono-shock ram and ripped the door right out of the grip of its hinges. The rest ran in with MP-5s and body armor. They later came out making hand signals to each other.

Hours later they finally left. Shane and Pete decided that they weren’t going home. They were on the lam now. There is no home for them anymore. They are the real outcasts.

Pete and Shane picked up the gold and left town. They headed for the beach fifty miles away; somewhere the feds can’t find them; somewhere they can do the same thing but even better and not get caught. Most of all they wanted to be king of the world, not some tricky bank robbers. They wanted to be somebody.

“Whooooooo whoooooo,” a policeman spotted them and S.W.A.T. was on their tails like a fox preying on a bird. The S.W.A.T. truck gained on them; there was no way out. Pete looked over his shoulder and saw that that Shane had dropped his bag and was running back to get it. Pete turned around and pulled a pistol out from his belt and shot two bullets at the S.W.A.T. truck’s wheel. Two of his bullets hit the wheel making it look like a weighted balloon on nails.

Seven men hopped out of the still moving truck. They ran towards Shane. Pete shot wildly at the group of men, but he only caught one in the leg by luck. Pete’s wasn’t enough to stop the S.W.A.T. Shane had been caught red handed, now he has to face the harsh punishment of jail.

Pete looked at Shane with sadness in his eyes then turned towards the road in front of him and began running. While running tears dropped like rocks to the ground. Pete was taking the road to nowhere. Pete was so lonely he would take a rat as a friend.

The End