Go back to the "sentence-sounds" you collected in the first assignment and write a narrative in which one or more of them appear.
Twelve has a bad habit of turning cherubic pupils into vengeful harpies with their new high-pitched voices. As a high school student whose voice still cracked on occasion, Michael would only begin to contemplate the seventh grade female psyche several years from now. Unfortunately, it was currently now, and there was a cluster of them in the classroom, in front of several indignant sixth graders.
“Those clothes are soooo yesterday.”
“What? They’re Abercrombie and Fitch.”
Despite Michael’s inexperience as a teacher, he knew that awkwardness was every teenager’s bane, and he was intimately familiar with awkwardness. So he stopped talking.
“Didn’t you sixth graders get the memo? They’re not popular any more.”
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One student woke up. Another finished his notes and clicked his pen on the table. Michael folded his arms and leaned back against the whiteboard. The students followed his gaze to the girls. The girls looked at him. They looked around the room. They looked back at him, expecting him to resume. He did not. This was a war of attrition, he was escalating it, and he had superior numbers. Finally, one of the girls folded.
“Wow, this is awkward.”
“Huh. Why’d you stop? I was enjoying your lecture on fashion.”
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A sixth grader raised her hand.
“Yes?”
“Can you go over paragraph eight again?”
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