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I'm Finally Awake: Young Authors Untangling Old NIghtmares

The Scriber Lake High School Writing Program in Edmonds, Washington uses writing as a powerful vehicle for change. The courage demonstrated by these students in their willingness to share experiences with homelessness, abuse, addiction and mental illness—matched by the outstanding writing in this collection—allows readers to enter perspectives crucial for understanding today’s youth. By choosing to express their way toward healing and hope, they are giving others both permission and inspiration to join them.

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I'm Finally Awake: Young Authors Untangling Old NIghtmares

The Scriber Lake High School Writing Program in Edmonds, Washington uses writing as a powerful vehicle for change. The courage demonstrated by these students in their willingness to share experiences with homelessness, abuse, addiction and mental illness—matched by the outstanding writing in this collection—allows readers to enter perspectives crucial for understanding today’s youth. By choosing to express their way toward healing and hope, they are giving others both permission and inspiration to join them.

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I'm Finally Awake: Young Authors Untangling Old NIghtmares

I'm Finally Awake: Young Authors Untangling Old NIghtmares

I'm Finally Awake: Young Authors Untangling Old NIghtmares

I'm Finally Awake: Young Authors Untangling Old NIghtmares

Overview

The Scriber Lake High School Writing Program in Edmonds, Washington uses writing as a powerful vehicle for change. The courage demonstrated by these students in their willingness to share experiences with homelessness, abuse, addiction and mental illness—matched by the outstanding writing in this collection—allows readers to enter perspectives crucial for understanding today’s youth. By choosing to express their way toward healing and hope, they are giving others both permission and inspiration to join them.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780997472400
Publisher: Edmonds School District
Publication date: 06/07/2016
Pages: 132
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.28(d)
Age Range: 13 - 18 Years

About the Author

Marjie Bowker has taught English and a little history somewhere in the world for the past 19 years: in China, Norway and Vietnam, in addition to her "regular" spot at Scriber. She is co-founder of The Scriber Lake
Writing Program and is the author of Creating a Success Culture: Transforming
Our Schools One Question at a Time and two curriculum guides:
They Absolutely Want to Write: Teaching the Heart and Soul of Narrative
Writing and Hippie Boy Teaching Guide: Transforming Lives through Personal
Storytelling.

David Zwaschka has taught English over the last 25 years in Alaska,
Tennessee, North Carolina and Washington, with moments of administration in between. His two years at Scriber have been a revelation; he has so enjoyed his work with this school's terrific students and dedicated staff . Dave enjoys running, reading, hiking in the North Cascades and not having any pets. He and his wife, Claire, have two daughters.

Table of Contents

xii | Foreword |
1 | Danika Henson | Plus I Love You
11 | Shalyn Ensz | Th ey
20 | Cole Moore | Plans
25 | Ali Verzola | Any Last Words?
32 | Josey Daniel | Shards of Glass
39 | Sarah Jean | Th irteen
47 | Arianna Carr | Happy Birthday, Peanut
52 | Daniel Cohen | Th e Sound of Goodbye
60 | Andrew Esktedt | Cough and Cold Sweats
69 | Karla Martinez Hurtado | Positive
75 | Tatam Walker | Pride and Guilt
82 | Kyana Reap | Drowning
89 | Kenneth Ash | A Blade Won't Cut It
94 | MaKayla Boulet | Contact High
99 | Kelly Makaveli | Stepping from Oblivion
115 | Acknowledgments
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