Name:Christiana Ellis
Name:Mike Meitín
Chris Ellis: Grade 10
Well, a while back I saw this post over at Kevin's blog, where he put up an excerpt of a story that he had written many years ago. That just got me thinking about some of the stuff I'd written back in the day.
In particular, I still have a Geography Report from tenth grade. The assignment was to write a report of an imaginary trip that we had taken to the assigned region.
Mine was probably the only one where the trip included witnessing a Russian mafia hit.
Anyway, check it out. (I've even replicated all the typos and spelling errors.)
In truth, despite the fact that it's immature and amateurish in very many respects, I'm actually fairly proud of it. It even netted me ten extra credit points.
Unfortunately, I spent a lot of time and effort putting together this great collage map of the trip featuring an Indiana Jones style red line. Why is that unfortunate? Well, apparently, the teacher wanted us to hand-draw the map, (even though the assignment just said "make a map"), so the guy docks me 15 points from the map, meaning that I end up with a 95/100! It took me twice as long to make the map that I handed in than it would have to just draw it.
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Not that I'm bitter...
I mean, it's been eleven years for crying out loud...
I'm totally over it...
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Posted by Christiana on
Sunday August 28, 2005 at 11:43pm
Also, I'd be very frightened to go back and read some of the fiction I wrote when I was younger. Especially the really early stuff from 2nd or 3rd grade...
As for earlier stuff, I remember a few comic-space-opera-type stories that I wrote back in fifth grade, but I don't actually have any copies of them. I wrote a series that followed Captain Robert Quentin Space. Humanity had discovered an additive that allowed humans to survive in space with half of the usual oxygen, but unfortunately, a side-effect was that it made you clumsy.
Featured some dangers like a giant planet on a collision course with earth that turned out to be inflatable. Also a black hole that followed cartoon rules more than actual laws of physics.