Park School Students become Novelists
Park School has more than a few budding writers in Mrs. Sekyra's sixth-grade class!
Students in Sherrie Sekyra's language arts class at Park School in District 46 not only met a challenge to write a 3,000-word novel in 30 days, they each surpassed it. The students recently completed the National Novel Writing Contest (NaNoWriMo), which is the world's largest youth writing event. The class had a "Thank Goodness it's Over" celebration on Dec. 14 where they enjoyed treats and read excerpts from their novels in front of parents. The 25 students wrote a collective 243,894 words, a great deal more than the 75,000-word minimum total. Two students even wrote more than 30,000 words each. "In all my years of teaching, I've never seen kids so enthusiastic about writing," said Sekyra. The students really enjoyed the contest, said …
Angela Sykora
10:59 am on Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Future Patch staffers! I was very impressed that the students all surpassed the 3,000-word goal and were taking time to write even before school! more ›