Upper School students in Toni Thayer’s Creative Writing Honors class spent this school year working on creative investigations of their own design. On Wednesday, May 20, the girls presented their projects—which ran the gamut from sonnets to songwriting, historical fiction to marketing pop-lit—at a special luncheon reception with parents and faculty in the Anne Cutter Coburn Reception Room. Attendees were treated to readings from an array of amazingly well-written short stories, personal essays, poetry, scenes from a screenplay, and even a beautiful and moving performance of two original songs.
This was the first year for Thayer to make this type of self-motivated long-term project part of her curriculum. The inaugural event was so well received and the quality of the work produced was so impressive that she intends to structure future classes in much the same way. Congratulations to the students enrolled in the 2014-2015 Creative Writing Honors class, all of whom should be very proud of their accomplishments: seniors Bridget Babcox, Lauren Battle, Chloé Biskind, Sayble Bradley, Becca Lambright, Gracie Mowery, Laura Mueller, Kat Phifer, Madeleine Schroedel, and Li Stebner; and junior Isabella Nilsson.
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