HELEN (HANYU) LIU 8TH GRADE Helen just moved from Connecticut to Boston, MA. Just the consideration of starting a fresh school year in a new school can leave the body in abeyance and drown the mind in many hopes and doubts. Not knowing what to anticipate, the mind then constructs expectations and desires Read more…
A Concert in Tenafly I was second on the program for the Schubert trio and last for the Mozart Quartet on the program. Having to enter stage so quickly, I felt like I was just dumped into sizzling water, grabbed out of it, and then stuck into icy water! I’ve Read more…
JESSICA CHENG 8TH GRADE Phillip Lopate’s “The Art of the Personal Essay” is a collection of assorted personal essays from amazing and celebrated writers, for example, Wendell Berry and Wole Soyinka. Two great essays from Lopate’s book would have to be Wendell Berry’s “An Entrance to the Woods”, which is a stellar essay Read more…
Lizzy has been reading “The Art of the Personal Essay” edited by Philip Lopate, for some time now. It is a lengthy collection of the best personal essays from the past four hundred years. When she read Edward Hoagland’s “The Courage of Turtles”, Lizzy was inspired to respond to the essay with one of Read more…
