Benny Westcott
For the last five years, students in Lana Holden’s seventh-grade language arts classes at Sweet Home Junior High School have participated in a different warm-up activity than usual when November rolls around. They’d sit down at computers and write.
The topic? Whatever they wanted.
One student told the story of a make-believe rabbit her grandpa had invented for tales she heard as a youth. Others wrote of flesh-eating zombies or alien invasions. Whatever…