IB MYP Language & Literature
— Old tennis racquets on a wall become a meditation on family members who have passed, their souls imagined playing on star-paved courts.
— A trumpet teacher arrives for lessons but instead of teaching, drinks espresso and talks about his Sicilian homeland, Mount Etna, and the village where he feels at home.
— Wet seaweed on the beach becomes a meditation on how memories dissolve and return, forming patterns in the sand as they dry.
— A young poet traces Dostoevsky's footsteps through his former spaces, feeling his presence in stairs, doors, and pages as a white night falls on St. Petersburg.
— A key narrates its existence from hanging on a hook to being lost forever when it falls from a bag onto a cold white floor.
— A girl visits her ancestors' graves in St. Petersburg, encountering a man who offers water to wash the stones, and wonders about the Russia she might have known.
— A prose poem imagines the inner life of a crab—its loneliness, fear, and anger—questioning whether people remember the being they've hurt after mounting it on a wall.
— Hope personified as an ambiguous companion who guides the speaker across treacherous terrain while knowing them intimately.
— A nine-year-old city girl boards a fishing boat and watches Hyannis dissolve in the distance like a homeland she's never visited.
— A young girl with magical powers must defeat an evil rock star who has enslaved Neptune's citizens with mind-controlling lightning, aided by new friends and a talking rat.