tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18584689994995950182011-11-24T16:36:26.585-08:00Stories, essays and poetry from students at 826CHIA Wig If You Want Ithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12484207941040480087noreply@blogger.comBlogger371100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1858468999499595018.post-25874158843795480602010-06-02T11:01:00.000-07:002010-06-02T11:01:25.531-07:00

Poem by Gbemi O., 8th GradeWhat if I was alone?What if I wanted a warm home?What if you didn't care?What if I had lots to share?What if I loved you?What if this was the end?What if I knew you hated me?What if I knew deep down you had faith in me?What if I didn't know?What if I hadn't been shown?What if I cried?What if I had no pride?What if my self- esteem was low?What if I had no one to show?

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By Brennan K., Grade 6 The Crusade is pointless. The Crusaders should be more Christian-like and ask politely if they could share the Holy Land. If they had thought about what they were going to do, like maybe killing many people, they would know they were breaking the commandment (Thou Shalt Not Kill) and will be sent to Hell. The Crusade is happening because of greed. The Christians are

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By Edgebrook School's 3rd Grade with Ms. Sherwood Illustrations by Jeni Crone (Noun Confused) Once upon a time in the very dry and vast Desolate Singing Desert there lived a secret agent named Bob-Larry.  Bob-Larry was one of the most famous wormtle agents in all of the world.  (A wormtle is a very special creature which is part worm and part turtle, and it makes him very good at being a special

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By Albatool S., Grade 6, Johann W Von Goethe ElementaryIt was a very nice evening. The sun was about to set, and Iron Man was getting ready to go out with his girlfriend, Rosalie, to eat dinner at Olive Garden. As most people know, Iron Man is very huge, but Rosalie was very tiny compared to him. It was very hard for Rosalie to fit Iron Man in her Volkswagen Beetle. She also had to put him in the

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  In honour of our friends the National releasing their new album, High Violet, today we thought we'd post a couple excerpts from articles some 826CHI middle school students wrote last summer when they interviewed the band at the Pitchfork Music Festival. Enjoy! From Mason Hammond's "Pitchfork Music Festival": The National are headliners for Pitchfork this year. Their band name is a mistake

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By: Ms. Venegas’ 2nd Grade Class from LaSalle Language Academy Illustrator: Corinne Mucha Storyteller: Libby Walker Once upon a time, in the freezing cold city of Newer Mexico, there was an epic waterpark called Crocodile Palace. This waterpark had fifty million rides, including hamster rides, two-thousand foot tall water slides, and The Intergalactic Drop, which brings you all the way to Otter

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This story is featured in Houston, We Have a Poem, now available in The Boring Store! By Lee’nisha P., Grade 4 There was a girl who went to space because she had science homework. The girl went to space and the cookies said to the milk, “I hate it when we fight.” The milk said, “I forgive you.” Then the cookies went back to the milk, and they lived happily ever after. If you are in

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This poem is featured in Houston, We Have a Poem, our newest chapbook. The book celebrates Prom Hanks and National Poetry Month. Tevin Y. wrote this poem to commemorate both, combining poetry with Apollo 13. Stop into The Boring Store to pick up your copy.  By Tevin Y., Grade 2 Black holes are treacherous, and not very colorful. If I were to meet one, I’d… and my mind would go… … blank.

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By Brianca K., Randolph School, Grade 6 It was a Sunday afternoon. Lawar had just got through playing basketball at the court. He drove to the doctor’s in his Cadillac SRX. He had just gotten through eating his cake. His doctor had told his he wasn’t supposed to eat cake. So he drove home and started to have stomach problems. He went to the store to buy milk. But as he was buying milk, he noticed

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By Horace Mann Elementary's 2nd Grade, with Ms. Pashos Illustrations by Aaron Renier Once upon a time in a spooky cobweb filled house, there lived sixteen regular ghosts and one very special color changing ghost named Van Pelt. Van Pelt could change into any color in the rainbow. He would go black to green to red in just one second. You could always tell Van Pelt's mood by what color he was.

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By Erie Elementary Charter School's 3rd Grade with Ms. Osorto Illustrations by Jeni Crone (Noun Confused) Buddy, the alien from Mars, lived in a haunted house. He liked to collect things, like rocks, and he liked to eat chicken fingers. One of his favorite things to do was to invite friends over for slumber parties. Juju, the Prince from Saturn, was one of his best friends. One weekend, they

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Sheila McIntosh's awesome story Wind and Rain has just received the National Golden Key Award after receiving a Regional Award in the National Art and Writing Awards. Sheila's story was written in 826CHI's Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better workshop. Congratulations, Sheila!

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By the students of Animation Station, one of 826CHI's amazing workshops. The Taco That Ate Everything is a terrifying reminder to eat healthy. The Taco That Ate Everything from Awig Ifyouwantit on Vimeo.

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By Sheila McIntosh, Grade 8 This story was written by Sheila McIntosh in 826CHI's Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better workshop. She then took it home, polished it, and sent it along to the National Art and Writing Awards, and took home the Golden Key award in the Chicago Regional. Congratulations Sheila! I hear the crashing rapids pounding in time with my heart. My sister’s hand is in mine,

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By: Azana, Calise, Bailey & Iryna of Skinner Elementary's 5th Grade Once, a long while ago, there was a very special chicken named George "Georgey" Bawkington. He was blue, wore glasses with lenses five inches thick, a blue leisure suit and a red George Washington wig. Georgey was the world's greatest hero, because he was super-smart and had a pure heart. He had one major fault: He was also

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This superb piece is featured in George Washington Hopscotch, our newest chapbook. Stop into The Boring Store to pick up your copy. By Josephine F., Grade 5 Paint the room green and orange. Put a swirly slide in. An organizer (AKA file cabinet). Mini cards, for kids. A girls bathroom and boys bathroom. Lots of cookies and cakes. A homework machine. A spa for girls (maybe boys) A game room for

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Find within: Lists of facts about presidents! Stories of what it means to be a Taurus! Descriptions of what 826CHI should look like! And, much, much more! The new chapbook will be available in The Boring Store starting today! This excellent new book features cover art by Brennan K. Pick up your copy now!

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By Catherine G., 2nd Grade Once upon a time there was a kid named Pony Kid. She is a pony and she is seven years old. Her favorite game is Outburst. She plays it in the backyard under an oak tree. The next morning, she went outside to play Outburst but the oak tree was knocked over! That was her favorite tree. She felt sad when her favorite tree got knocked down. When she was about to go in the

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By Gbemi O., Peabody Elementary School My life.... This a pain all in one thing that i can't really experss how i feel I wouldn't really say I'm stuck but that's how real it feels I don't really know were I'll end up in another 10 to 15 years from now I tried to understand why but it really hurts inside I can't really discover why but it really hurts inside Sorrow and pain, crying and dying

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By Byrne Elementary's 3rd Grade with Mrs. Hansen. Illustrations by Julia Rice Deep in The Shoelace Forest, where laces grow from the ground and reach 60 feet high, lived a tribe of bear-nanas led by their queen, Deevena. Like all bear-nanas, Queen Deevena had the front half of a black bear and a tail of a blue, polka-dot banana. Her claws were sharp bananas and she wore a furry banana crown on

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By Byrne Elementary's 2nd Grade. Illustrations by Corinne Mucha Once upon a time, in the very flashy and exciting city of Las Vegas, there lived a very special talking hamburger named Pablo. Pablo could talk only because he had very special ketchup that had very special powers. This ketchup let anyone who couldn't talk before, talk, as long as they were slathered in ketchup! This put Pablo in

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By: Gbemi O. Peabody Elementary school Never forget the time you told me you had feelings You were always on my mind all this time i didn't know what to say i was... speechless I tried to tell you how i feel but deep down i felt something real it was... you! I saw you playing with my best friend and i asked" Who's that"? you told that's you're gurl I got curious never knowing furious I cried and

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By Brennan K., Grade 6 George Washington never had any hair He is actually very short. He wears stilts. He wears brown lipstick. He has a whole room full of wigs. We can exclusively reveal: He never knew how to read.

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By Legacy's 2nd Grade class, with Mr. Hauser Illustrations by Jeni Crone (Noun Confused) Once upon a time in the far off and distant future, there was a planet called The Big Pants Planet. This planet was filled with big, fat chickens! The chickens were so big that they weighed one hundred pounds each and were six feet tall. On The Big Pants Planet, there also lived a talking tiger, whose name

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By Alyssa M., 5th Grade

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This superb collaboration is featured in Meauh Shakes & Milk Sharks, our newest chapbook. Stop into The Boring Store to pick up your copy. By Clevonte H. (Grade 6), Bryan M. (Grade 4), and Dory Trimble (826CHI Intern) I said, "Hello Rihanna, how are you?" She said, "Good, how about you?" "Fantastic," I said. Rihanna's new album Rated R is good; bad, because she has some curse words in the

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Poem by Gbemi O., Peabody, 8th GradeWe all have tough and good times, remember soon we're all going to shine Graduation is here, everybody cheer We'll walk down the aisle and our parent's will say "WOW! we raised the best child"We fought through some bad times while the time fades away Like an orange sunset whiling through the dayWe're in 8th grade, so we'll soon go our separate ways It's

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New!Fun Fact: A chapbook is called a chapbook because they were sold by "chapmen," or merchants who dealt in small pamphlets, collections of songs, poems and the like.To get this excellent chapbook, you won't need to travel to 17th Century England. Just come in to 826CHI and learn more about the dreaded Milk Shark, how to make Everything Soup, an excellent cover illustration by Emily Hutton, and

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Written by Brittany, Alexis, Martin, Atanacio and Brianna of Peabody's 6th GradeOnce, in 1951, there was a famous painter named Dylan Klezko. He liked to wear a backwards baseball cap and a striped shirt. He had blond hair and loved playing soccer.Dylan made paintings of his feelings and sold them to the people of Mercury. Doing this made him very rich. The people of Mercury had lots of money, so

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Story by Tania S., Grade 6Illustration by Tadzio K., Grade 6Who I would like to live in my gingerbread house is a dog. I would like a dog because I would like to see if I could have a smart dog. My dog's name is Susie. Or, if that dog is not smart, I will sell it and give it to another person and try to get a smart dog. I don't want to train it because I want to see which dog is smarter. I want a

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By Jonathan B., 6th GradeIllustration by Mikey H., 5th GradeOne day there was a big, huge, gigantic, enormous man made out of chocolate, named Willy. Everyone was scared of the chocolate man. Everyone, except a little baby called Ron. Ron was a very fat baby. He was so fat that he could eat ten times more than a normal person.OK, back to the big chocolate man: He destroyed everything he saw. He

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By CICS-Basil's 3rd Grade class, with Mrs. ReynoldsIllustrations by Lisa See Kim (Lisa See Kim)In the city of Calcapoo, in the desert of Calcapooey, there lived a little girl tarantula by the name of Candy. Candy liked to walk around the sewers underneath Calcapoo, looking for a magical sweater. The magical sweater was gold with purple polka-dots, and if she put it on, she could fly anywhere she

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by B.J. A., Grade 3O, vanilla milkshake, you are sweet and saltyand you have chunks of lava in you.But I drank you anyway.You burn my mouth and all of my teeth.My teeth melted and it tastes gross and the lava mixed with my acid and the lava went out of my body and I hurled really bad.Happy Birthday Milkshake

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By Jayda V., Keilani F., Emily P., Abigail S. and Crystal O., 5th gradeAshley, the one-thousand-eyed squid, walked through the soft and sticky cotton candy streets of Candylantis. She was headed to the underwater mall, which was made out of lollipops and surrounded by chocolate trees.But since she wasn't paying attention to where she was going, she ran right into a talking, orange candy cane. "

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Beginning by Kaitlyn R., Middle by Catherine G., End by Tevin Y.Once upon a time, there was a magical hat that could do everything that is hard to do and easy stuff too. The hard stuff was to make a robot and play a game called Rachel. To play Rachel, you need to land on a Rachel and build the first letter in Rachel. It is R. Whoever finishes her name wins.________________________________________

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By Marvin G.Grade 3When I went to Japan, I ate so much sushi that I turned into a big piece of sushi. So people wouldn't eat me, I threw myself into the garbage and was stinky and people wouldn't eat me. If I wanted to turn back into a person, I would have to kiss a monkey and then my family wouldn't eat me.

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By Nicolaus D., Gaby S., B.J. S., Ryan W. and Keyaira H. of Alcott Elementary's 5th gradeOnce there was a hurtle (a combination horse and turtle) named Justin Cooper Windigo, who lived in a tree and wore a bedazzled tutu and was twenty-two years old. He didn't have any eyes, so he had hyper-sensitive nose and ears. One day in his tree, he heard a heavy thumping from afar. He made a loud "cawww"

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