Gueydan High School Writing Club Literary Spotlights for the week of March 6th through March 10th
High School:
Task: Create an original character then write an introductory paragraph about them.
Baili Thibodeaux
Talia was a 16-year-old girl. She was very beautiful, she had hazel eyes and brown hair. She was very intelligent but struggled in some classes. Talia loved photography and was very good at it, she could take pictures of any random everyday item but when it was photographed by her it looked incredible. Talia had an older sister whom she was very close with. She was also close with her parents. She didn't have many friends because they had just moved to a new neighborhood but she did have two girls who showed her around the school when we first moved here and they seemed to be getting close. Talia seemed like she had a great life until one day she didn't come home from school and that's when things took a turn for the worst.
Mark Hebert
Lilith is a 24 year old woman from the hills of Southern Colorado. She has a fair complexion and waves of strawberry-blonde hair that hangs just off her shoulders. Never does she worry about the finer things in life. She cared not for materialistic value and preferred to live in a small cottage in the hills outside of Pueblo, Colorado. She likes the outside and to camp and garden and forage. Liking the outdoors so much she sought to replicate the things she saw and therefore she took a liking to art, especially post-impressionism. Lilith was originally from Edinburgh, well just outside of Edinburgh in Hillend; where she would ski in the winters. She’d been in Colorado since 14 when her mother and father separated. Her mother stayed behind at her family house and her father was offered a job in the states, giving reason behind their separation. Lilith’s mother expected her to stay behind with her, but she had other plans and realized this when looking at the opportunities available to her in the states. She works as an architect in the West-Mountain Contracting Company out of Colorado Springs and Denver.
Middle School:
Task: Descriptive Writing. Write a paragraph describing your favorite place, or a place that is important to you. The two students chosen decided to write their descriptions as poetry.
Brielle Reese
Country Roads
The beautiful sunsets you see,
The sunrises that wake you every morning,
The clear sky for watching the stars.
The rainbows from the clouded, stormy days,
The dusty, mangled gravel roads,
The giant fields with all the cattle.
The never-ending cold nights making for great bonfires,
The sound of tired tires dragging against the gravel.
The raindrops hitting the roof of the patio,
The smell coming from the kitchen on a Sunday morning,
The grease bubbles popping out of the pan,
The fire burning in the brick fireplace,
Dogs barking in the distance.
The savory syrup on the flat pancakes,
The sweet butter on the fluffy biscuits.
The ice-cold homemade sweet tea.
Carrley Bertrand
The Place Where I Belong
Here’s the way I figure it,
My place in the world is being a NICU nurse.
I belong here,
Saving children from death at birth,
Giving youth a chance at life.
As life begins,
I realize these young children have their lives in my hands,
Making everything I do risk them from seeing no more life,
As sudden death rises upon these children,
It is my job to save them,
Making these kids see another day to come.