If you were to curate a story of your world, how would your chosen images tell a story that is important to you?
This was aΒ prompt for the students writing for the 51ΑΤΖζ Achievement Awards in Writing.
2015 51ΑΤΖζ Achievement Awards in Writing winner :
βThe setting is a small Sunday school classroom in a small church in a small town. A white plastic-top table with crayon marks and marker stains is pushed against a wall. Old orange leather chairs are scattered around it. In the corner of the photo, a brown-haired girl is shyly looking through the doorway, her mother behind her.β
On May 6, the partnered with the Nebraska Writing Project in βA Celebration of Young Nebraska Writersβ at the State Capitol in Lincoln.
Students recognized included 2015 winners of two 51ΑΤΖζ student awards programs:
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TheΒ Nebraska Writing Project sponsored poetry of place readings by Nebraska Poets and Β and by 12 elementary, middle school, and high school students.
The poem, βEarth as Home,β in , winner of 2015 51ΑΤΖζ Achievement Awards in Writing Certificate for Superior Writing began
The earth spoke to me
through the ancient pictures
in the pitch black sky.
Bright stars peeking through
the curtain overhead, hiding the
sleeping sun.
Nothing brings the Β Β to life better than student writing like this!