Louisiana Students Engage in Downtown Writing Marathon

Publication: The Daily Iberian
Date: June 18, 2009

Summary: Teacher-consultants from the National Writing Project of Acadiana lead a group of elementary school students on a writing marathon through the "rich panoply of life on the Bayou Teche."

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Jaylen Nora, 8, writing on the boardwalk, said she enjoyed observing the bayou and read some of her spontaneous work: "I see a big swamp and trees and birds ... bugs and leaves. I hear a mockingbird."

This is the second year the writing project has been held in New Iberia. Hutson, Stephanie Judice and Margaret Simon—teacher-consultants with the National Writing Project of Acadiana—guided the writers along their paths.

"We're giving them experiences to lead them to writing," Simon said while leading her writers from the boardwalk to Main Street. "We're showing them how writing can be a part of their everyday lives."

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