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Daily Reporter Olivia Park Today was a normal Wednesday. We came in, unpacked, and sat down to wait for directions. But, today was Young Authors day so we got to do a lot of fun stuff having to do with writing. As soon as we were settled, Mrs. Moline told us to go get our nametags, which indicated which group we were in, out in the hall. I was assigned the group //Kidnapped.// The first group we did was in Mr. Hagen’s class. We had the opportunity to share our poems that we wrote in little groups of four then give feedback. My poem was a short personification one about fire, Johnson’s was about autumn changing into winter, Brennan’s was about things that were green, and so was Jazbeth’s. Our group gave some really good feedback, so we would know how to change/improve our writing skills. The second group we did was in Mrs. Kutrich’s room. Out assignment was to pick a painting in the room and write a fictional autobiography about the person in the picture. The picture that I chose showed a young girl on a balcony with a dog on her lap. My story ended up having her name be Isabell with the age of 21. The third group we went to was to listen to the author Jim Whiting talk about his books and how he does his research. Jim writes nonfiction books for children and a running magazine for adults. One of the most disgusting things I learned is that maggots, if you put them on your infected skin can help by eating the old skin then clean the wound with some chemical that it can produce. After all of these exciting activities we got to do, we were getting tired so we went out to recess. For recess, I hung out at the book fair browsing for books that looked good. I ended up buying a few books that were very interesting. Too soon, it was time to go back inside for our final author’s day activity. Our last activity was to do abstract art. The woman who was teaching us, gave us step by step instructions but we got to change them a little bit. After we were done, we got to color it in. Mine turned out really cool and looked very abstract. Overall, today was a creative, inspiring, wonderful, amazing, abstract, and artsy day!