National Day on Writing

October 20th, this past Monday, was the National Day on Writing.

This is an annual celebration of writing that occurs every year and allows students, educators and everyone to celebrate why we write and how we write.

This year's theme was on community.

Students were asked to explore questions that asked them to think about what communities they belong to and how they interact with them. They were allowed to choose any question to write on:

1. What is a challenge your community is facing and what could you do to help?
2. What is an ideal dream for your community?
3. Give an example of a person who plays an important role in your local community. How do they do that?
4. How do you connect with your community? Online? Face to face? What are the benefits and drawbacks of connecting this way?
5. Will or does writing play an important role in our current or future communities? How?

Since this celebration is usually celebrated via Twitter, students were asked to keep their writing short. Each student put their writing on a leaf that was given to them and then they were hung up on the community tree. 

As students at WSMS, we all belong to one community together. This represents the trunk of the community tree. As separate people, we all have different interests and belong to different communities outside of school and therefore break into different branches. 

Check out the awesome work our students put together: