In celebration of National Library Week, Westmoor Librarian Tara LaCerra and her assistant Kim Burnson, organized a school-wide writing project. Over the course of a few days, each K-5 class added a sentence based on the previous sentence to build “More to the Story: A Westmoor Tale in 18 parts.”
It stars a central figure at Westmoor, head custodian Matt Kritzberg.
“They (students) were really thoughtful, how do we create an arc, add detail and dialog,” Ms. LaCerra said. “It was cool to see them incorporate things they were focusing on the classroom into the story. And it was really fun to see how they incorporated someone like Mr. Matt who is a household name around here. How they see him as a character and used what they knew about him – he’s a Sox fan, so they had him sing Go Cubs Go, and the 5th grade incorporated the musical. Everyone brought their own flavor to the story.”
Listen to the story as read by Ms. LaCerra….
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