

#Detroitin6words: Detroit students create 6-word stories about Detroit
Hemingway's 6-word memoir was the topic of discussion as students at Alkebu-lan Village gladly accepted the challenge by creating their own versions about Detroit. As only one student was familiar with Hemingway's short story, many were eager to create their own versions as they were asked to create as many as they could think of in 5 minutes. Here are some of the 6-word stories from the students, as well as the Tribe: "Detroit versus everyone? or versus itself?" "Incredible


Using Social Media to lessen "Summer Learning Lag" or "Brain Drain."
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anaïs Nin After a near year-long sentence of standardized testing, writing boot camps, college application outlines, and scholarship essays, one would believe writing is the furthest thing from the mind of any high school student―until you look at the newsfeed on social media. Without the obligations of school schedules and class assignments due, social media is buzzing, dinging, and singing with hallelujah p