"How can we make South Carolina better?" Normally this issue is reserved for lawmakers and voters, but Writing South Carolina, volume 3, gives voice to fifty high school juniors and seniors from across the Palmetto State who have offered suggestions. The University of South Carolina Honors College annual writing contest presents a necessary voice for them as well as a revealing portrait of their lives and desires using their own words and insights. Contest judge Mary Alice Monroe provides the foreword for this volume and has said of the contributing students, "They are astonishingly talented, further ahead in the game than I was at their age."
Through a variety of short, creative genres, students share their own gripping experiences in South Carolina, often about of growing up and going to school here. This year's selections range from poems about the cycle of abuse to short stories about minimum wage to essays about problematic sex education in public schools. Writing South Carolina, volume 3, offers a collection steeped in creativity, honesty, and clarity. High school students witness and encounter some of the most subtle and serious problems in South Carolina's school system—and they demand change.Monroe, a New York Times best-selling author of children's books and novels, including A Lowcountry Christmas and The Butterfly's Daughter, provides a foreword.
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- WRITING SOUTH CAROLINA
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Juniors
- Raising Violence
- Twenty-First-Century Pigeon House
- Speaking for Those Too Young to Understand
- That One Line
- South Carolina, or, A State of Improvement
- The Words That Wouldn’t Come Out
- Teenage Roulette
- Cheer Up
- Simple Solutions
- Krasivaya
- The “S” Word
- I Believe in Magic
- The Decrescendo of the Arts
- The Power of the Written Word
- The New Renaissance
- A Grave Understanding
- Diary Entry from an Abuse Victim
- My Experience with Southport
- Going Green in South Carolina
- Metamorphosis
- Dirty Little Secret
- Forever Branded
- Improving South Carolina by Improving the Lives of Future Citizens
- Inspired by the Fight
- Growth of a Palmetto
- Mice-Related Inspiration
- “16”
- A New Way to Grow Up
- How Can You Fix It?
- Being Inspired
- Renewing Our Reputation, Expanding Our Borders
- People Skills
- The Great Carolina?
- Lessons from The Kite Runner
- This Crystal Is Not a Girl’s Best Friend
- How Captain Underpants Decided My Future
- The Iodine State
- Pearly Gates
- The Fallacy of Neglect, Neighbors, and Other Things
- Holdenification: The Extent to Which a Fictional Character Changed My Perspective on Life
- Carolina State of Mind
- The Moment I Escaped Death
- A State Left Behind
- Feeling Invisible
- Seniors
- Losing Jake: A South Carolina Problem
- The Body’s Mechanics
- The Confederate Ghost
- Representation Matters
- Letter to a Beaufort Businessman after He Tipped Me a Twenty for Telling Him How Much His Yogurt Cost
- Learning to Know: Finding Change from A Visit from the Goon Squad
- Buttered Biscuits, Cotton Hair, Dirty Jokes, and the Kardashians
- How Mr. May Made Me a Poet
- “They’s a-goin’”
- “It’s a hard job, son”
- Just a Book Bag
- Life-Changing Read
- The State of Things
- Down the Alleyway
- Broken Together
- Assassins and Hope
- A Lost Privilege
- The Battle of Inspiration
- The Box That Hinders Us
- Help-ing Me to Love Reading
- New Car, New Rules, Same Old State
- Losing Faith and Finding It Again
- They Blocked Paradise and Put Up a Billboard
- Which Tree to Be
- Loved by Everyone
- Life and Afterlife
- All of Them
- Revelation on Mango Street
- The Importance of Social Events
- Books—the Spark That Lights Imagination
- South Carolina’s Other Prejudice
- Ever-Changing Perspective
- Cursive Recurrence
- Extremely Insightful and Incredibly Life-Changing
- The Girl with the Butterfly Clips
- It Started on Page 4
- Unspoken Cries
- How I Define Living
- The Dreamer
- Caged Birds
- Fine Arts: Why Are They Important?
- Learning from a Tragedy
- Recommended Strategies to Ignite Economic Growth
- The Ultimate Mentor Book
- It Is Time to Fix Our Roads and Bridges
- A World to Explore
- A Melody to a Nightingale
- Finding Expression
- Finding the Answer
- The Craving
- The Time Has Come
- Vanishing the Past
- You’ll Have to Watch Yourself
- Lessons from Russian Aristocracy
- Finding Liberation
- Salvation
- Contributors
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