Seventh graders completed narrative small moment stories from their lives this week. The project helped build descriptive writing skills and allowed students to look closely at their own personal experiences to make meaning out of their values and identity. Over the summer, students read the graphic novel and memoir March by John Lewis, and then read the short story “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes. While the story is fiction, it depicts the journals of a man who undergoes an operation to change his IQ, and students noted how the narrative style changes as he experiences various changes in his health and comprehension.
