IB MYP Language & Literature
— A young poet contemplates the Continental Divide, finding excitement in the engineering feat and the symbolic boundary between watersheds and oceans.
— A meditation on escaping into TV shows versus facing the messy reality of life, ending with the speaker choosing to walk into 'fresh, impure air.'
— A student calculates how to spend the six minutes before online math class, watching pedestrians replace morning birds while time takes on new meaning.
— A girl struggles with anger and sadness as she helps her sister move into a college apartment in Bar Harbor, finding clarity by the ocean.
— A boy shoots an arrow into the sky during a bow-making activity, gets it stuck in a tree, and learns to think before acting through elaborate attempts to retrieve it.
— During a science class discussion, Kelly's fear of speaking up becomes overwhelming when asked to explain her answer about a frozen water bottle.
— Four brief meditations capture moments in different outdoor spaces — a forest path, tennis court, porch, and window view — through precise sensory observation.
— A girl climbs a hill at sunset to throw a pebble into the sky for her dead mother, then returns to an empty house and her absent father's note.
— A boy with prophetic visions flees with his uncle to escape his mother's murderous revenge, but a wolf attack forces a reckoning with forgiveness.
— A word discovered in a box pursues the narrator, invading their mind and triggering painful memories whenever someone speaks it aloud.