Introduction
by Finn Wagstaff( Grade 8) and Laura Murphy( Grade 6)
Welcome to the HMS / WJHS Literary Magazine! This revolutionary magazine is the first of its kind at this district and was a real feat to get done. We at both Highcrest and the Junior High worked for weeks, beginning after spring break and we collaborated with peers to make an incredible work of student art and literature.
At HMS, we had a staff of 12 sixth graders, and at WHJS, we had 6 seventh grade students and 6 eighth grade students. Our goal was to collect all kinds of writing and artwork from students in grades 5-8.
To get the word out, we visited homerooms and told them about it. Both the staffs at HMS and WJHS had before school and recess / lunch meetings, our staff designed pages in the magazine and we read all the wonderful submissions. Students submitted their submissions through a Google form, and the staff took responsibility for reading and formatting different pieces.
We had lots of fun going through each submission and putting it all together into one magazine. There’ s great variety in genre: including poetry, short stories, essays, book reviews, artwork, photography and other interesting types of writing. We wanted to put everything in, but in order to keep the magazine a manageable length, we had to choose which ones to put
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into the magazine.
Now that we’ ve begun this magazine, we plan to have it for many years, and students are encouraged to keep sending in submissions each year! We hope you enjoy the magazine as much as we had fun making it!
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