Winter 2021
The Six Word Memoir Project
Can you sum up your life, yourself, your year, or your high school experience in just
six little words?
The class of 2021 was challenged to do this.
the result? They have proven just how powerful words can be.
Forever isn't promised, so why wait?
-Jaiden Richmond
Life is to vibe and glide.
-Khashad Brenson
Ups and downs and growing better.
-Marissa Lee
Finding your true happiness is internal.
-Jamiyah Wilkerson
Don't let the world ruin you.
-DeJa Watson
It's been a long crazy ride.
-Jenny Nguyen
2020 was bad; high school sucks.
-Alaysha Bulliner
Empathetic, confident, unpredictable, sociable, open-minded, authoritative.
-Aunshauneya McBride
I'm a lizard with small tigers.
-Terrell Earl
New days are for bigger ideas.
-Terri Dale
Stressful, Isolated, Pressure, College, Test, Future.
-Yasmine Love
Caring person, nice life, weird school.
-Donyell Pinkard
I'm keeping my promise for you.
-Kaylin Dixon
Caps and gowns. Ups and downs.
-Hannah Thomas
Different. Challenging. Overcoming. Passion. All in.
-Lauren White
The hill looks tall from below.
-Alex Brimer
Fitted in; better off standing out.
-Jordan Cooper
As we go on, we remember.
-Gerald Powell
Living my dream...success is next!
-Diamond Leak
It's nice to finally be alive.
-Desia Johnson
I slowly started to heal myself.
-Amaya Smith
Bullying is wrong, but move on.
-Damarri Trimble
The last four years...just wasted.
-Kyndal Davis
Play soccer; it's cooler than sleeping.
-BreLynn Young
The oldest, but treated like youngest.
-Taylor Davidson
Inspiring. Motive. Relations. Stressful. Determined. Fun.
-Semaj Dean
Nature is the calmness of souls.
-Terrah Simms
Finding peace after a long journey.
-Ariel Hopkins
Think about the good in life.
-Luther Ester
Humble, respectful, achieving, outgoing, meek, modest.
-Christian Carter
May food be your everlasting peace.
-J'Lessa Jordan
Real good kid in mad city.
-Thomas Hicks
Memories can only go so far.
-Iyana Oliver
Keep them close. Love their love.
-Cameron Doss
Forgot to say I love you.
-Justin Robinson
High school: worst part of life.
-Kyah Lewis
Best year at the wrong time.
-Brooklyn Bishop
I am very goofy and hilarious.
-De'Rius Ewing
Ominous feelings are blocking my path.
-Honesty Powe
I am extremely ready to go.
-Nandi Moore-Washington
I'm too inventive for this planet.
-Jalyn Alexander
Live life and never stop striving.
-Dewayne Heard
Die with memories, not dreams.
-Kendall Handy
Climbed life's mountains without a compass.
-Mrs. Wilimzig
Winter
Snow falling
Water turning to ice
Heaters turning on
Fires started
One by one
Snowflakes fall
Snow balls are made
Snow men are built
Little by little
The snow melts
Water turns to liquid
Snowmen fade away
And springtime begins
Noah Nuncio, 10th Grade
Remember the Time
Remember the time when you could go wherever you wanted
without thinking twice about it. Or when you could go to school even though
you really never cared for being around people.
Otherwise you would have just been the kid in class that always made everybody's day and had
everyone laughing.
Remember when you could let out energy in the gym and mess around with the girls.
On the other hand you probably miss planning things to do with family and friends without
having to rush to be the first one somewhere, or not to be the last.
Most of us have already become tired of each other from being together so long during this
quarantine.
And the other half of us started becoming entrepreneurs.
During this quarantine you should have learned how to live through it and if it happens again
what you could do better next time.
Emmanuel Blue, 10th Grade
LIFE
2019 was a great year
Getting be free outside going around people and not having to worry
Coming home from school going outside
Excited to go with friends
The hot summer days were the best
Playing tag with the neighborhood
Laughing walking down the street to the gas stations
Drinking water after water because it's hot
Staying outside past street lights, being forced to come in by parents
Now things have shifted
Walking down the streets alone and scared
Those friends have vanished
The new people in the neighborhood don't come outside
They are looking out of their windows
All the fun days are thrown away
Life is different now
All the childhood friends gone
All moved on.
Kamryn Burns, 10th Grade
Warrington Village
Community
a word that
we all understand
A word
that we think
means
hand and hand
With a group
of people we
all grew up with
That could
truly understand
a feeling of fellowship
with others
The ones we consider
sisters and brothers
In apartments
with
Broken concrete stairs
Seeing little kids
Run down the side walk
With braided hair
Diffferent numbers
Different buildings
Whole nother race
But
We grew up
in the same place
Tayanna Davidson, 10th Grade
LIFE
Life can be funny sometimes
Good things or bad things can
Happen
It's not always a good place
Some days, it can be the best day
Of your life
Other days
It can be a nightmare
Justine Jackson, 10th Grade
The Hidden Rain
It's dark and gloomy
Like the rain
It's filled with pain
It used to be fun but now it’s not the same
The people are happy like it’s a sunny day
But in reality they hide their pain away
Everyone must work, no laugh nor play
There is no escape, every person must stay
Ernest Shields, 10th Grade
BLM
I stand for BLM and no one can change that
It's what's inside of us that matter, not the color black
It hurts to see the way that cops treat the black community
Fighting for a forever change and stopping police brutality
We the black people, are all victims of hate
We never chose this life but it's the world we face
Standing strong together we all pray that we make it out
We’re going to keep our heads up standing tall and proud
Charles Love, 10th Grade
The Struggle is Real!
Day by day
We gotta live with the past
Knowing how life was
It went so fast
And it hurts so bad
Looking at old pictures
And staring at old gifts
The memories start flooding back
I feel really sick
It's like a bird hit my head
Their sweet voices
Play in my head
I get onto my knees and start to beg
Why it had to happen
Or why to me
It feels as they're so far
But they're just down the street
If I could change what had happen
I’d do it so fast
But we can’t go back into the past
The pain is like
My sister's hair on a Sunday night
They always had family
Get-togethers
And now all I see is my walls
Oh how happy we were I’m now so sad
I can’t even go outside
Without thinking about my past
With all the joy I had before
I must've had it stored
It's long gone
And I can't wait to have it back
It feels like my grandma stepped on my back
Even though they're not fully gone
I still wish we had more time
With short notice no time for goodbyes
Not knowing it was the last
Make me think
Bout the last words
Maria Smith, 10th Grade
Midnight
During this time
we as teens
are being swallowed
by our
personal darkness
and our parents with
all their experience
can’t help us
some things
help us cope
by channeling
our greatest influences
likes singers and
Preachers
In order to control the
Darkness
it needs a face
when it becomes
Someone else
Something else
can we be free
without all the
weight on our
shoulders
But we mustn't
forget that our
Darkness
makes us stronger
Even if it’s separate
From us, it’s
Also a part
Of us
Kobe Goodwin, 10th Grade
Fun in the Sun
One by one
All the kids get
Off the bus
And rush to get home
Their yards
Are filled with
A bunch of fun
Even with slime and foam
It was going
To be
The best day of
Their lives
Hopefully everyone
Stays safe,
Don’t get injured
Or mess with bee hives
Charles Love, 10th Grade
Classroom
Gangways, corner stores, alleys
was all I knew for
a period of my life
In the morning
neighbors woke me
like an alarm
clock
I grew jealous
of the sleeping giant
because he had
what I lacked
My eyes mad at me
because they wish
for a break
9th grade year
I was exposed
to a place I didn't know
that helped me grow
I silently secured sleep
And my eyes got
rest
Bryan Tilson, 10th Grade
Northern Lights
Wesley Shelton
The inspiration of my work is to show the beauty of nature and the struggles nature goes through. This piece is a part of my drawing investigation. I'm drawing the progression of this mother fox's life as she struggles to keep her and her family alive. As of now, they are taking refuge in this hayloft of a barn and as they are sleeping, the Northern Lights are shining over them.
Medium Used: Charcoal pastel pencils on black paper.
The Energy
Gabrielle Vence, 9th Grade
My inspiration for the piece would have to be the sun, and the positivity nature gives out. Medium used: acrylic paint on canvas
Rising Tides and Falling Skies
Mrs. Carroll, Art Teacher
In Computer Graphics we work on masking layers and blending techniques in photoshop to alter the natural environment between at least 2 photographs. After a brief climate change research project, students pick one predicted outcome of climate change to focus on for their project. Students then blend real images to create an exaggerated climate change outcome. I was inspired to create this project after seeing fire-tornados in California this summer. I never knew such a disaster was possible, and it made me wonder what other disasters could potentially combine into one. Medium: Digital Media
Global Warming
A'hmeena King, 10th Grade
The use of burning fossil fuels and how they pollute the air, by producing large amounts of carbon dioxide when burned. The carbon emissions trap heat in the atmosphere and lead to some form of change in the climate; having a harmful impact on life. Medium: Digital Media
Melting
Tracy Nguyen, 11th Grade
The specific scientific prediction of climate change that my image represented was the “melting” of the Arctic. In the future, with how we are going right now, more places in the Arctic will catch on fire, disrupting the environment and its inhabitants. Medium: Digital Media
A Monument Overtaken by Human Negligence
MaCaleb Thompson, 12th Grade
The glaciers melting and submerging NYC underwater. Medium: Digital Media