After-School Student Writing: Thornhill Elementary 4th and 5th Grade

Our students at Thornhill this Fall have had the pleasure of working with published Bay Area author Michael David Lukas. And, in honor of National Novel Writing Month, the class is following the NaNoWriMo Young Writer's curriculum and composing their very own novels!

See what some of our story ideas are!

Gabby

My novel is about a girl who has horrible parents, her dream has been to travel the world and she accomplishes it.

Makaylah & Kaitlyn

Our story is about two elves who go on a journey because they notice that not all kids have dreams and they want to give them some.

Aaron

[My novel] is about a kid named Robert and his try to stop a cow named Harry from killing hamsters by creating a Hamster Recreation Center to save them.

Benji

Bob is a person with a happy life. He lives in a mansion his cousins gave him. He hears a noise in his garage and wants to go see what it is. He sees his bike and starts to ride. He falls off, fractures his finder and then...

Hannah

My novel is about a penguin named Paris who wants to travel and it's about his adventures.

Our young writers start their novels!

"Take My Word For It!" has teamed up with the Bay area's NaNoWriMo, the folks that put on National Novel Writing Month each November.  Our young writers at Chabot Elementary and Thornhill Elementary are embarking on an exciting and challenging project for the fall session- writing a novel!

Teachers across the country use the NaNoWriMo curriculum in their English/Language Arts classes during the school day. We're the first to offer it in the after-school setting.

Today at Chabot we began to develop our main characters and plan to spend a lot of time with them in the next couple of months.

Read on!

TONY

T-Bird is a 10 year old boy who loves tortellini. His favorite movie is "Fred the Movie."

RASHIID

Clanky the robot can make himself larger and smaller at will. He's 10 years old, has green eyes and can also make himself invisible.

VIOLET
Vana Silverthread is 11, almost 12, and lives in Brooklyn. She loves to paint and skateboard.

MOLLY

Sidney is a lives in Blackenshuna Feetow and her favorite food is dragonfruit. She is thinking of moving.

PAIGE

Melody Sandystream, known as Aqua, an fly, make herself invisible and read minds. She lives in New York City.

 LUCIE

MAIN CHARACTER IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION

HELEN

Max is a bat whose favorite food is butterflies. He lives in Illinois, near Greenford, and has many relatives including 100 brothers and 101 sisters. Max loves to sleep.

GRACE

Elizabeth is 11 and can fly. She lives in a giant mansion on the east side of Wyoming. She never takes the #7 bus to school.

KOBI

Tom is a 1,426 year old Spidermonkey. He ran away to a planet called "Feet" and his favorite food is dandruff.

NYAH

Alia lives in the woods with her parents. She loves pizza and pie.