Editor’s note: Young Writers Project, a Vermont nonprofit dedicated to helping students write well, will be sharing several exceptional pieces of best student work each week at VTDigger.org for special display over the weekend. We hope you appreciate the young writers’ viewpoints, imagination and experiences. Please let us know what you think.
Keenan Thygesen, now a fifth-grade student at Tunbridge Central School, lives on a farm in Tunbridge that has been in his family for 10 generations. Keenan says he loves cows and farming – and is inspired by his father, Kyle, and his grandparents.
Cows
By Keenan Thygesen
The place where I feel most confident is in the show ring at the New York Spring Show in Syracuse, N.Y.
I feel confident because I’ve shown there before and sometimes get high placings.
I like to see how many other calves are in my class and where they place.
I feel confident because I’ve taught my calf to lead well. My calf is clean and well-clipped.
I like that I always feel confident at the show and look forward to next spring.
About YWP
YWP publishes about 1,000 students’ work each year here, in 19 newspapers across Vermont and in parts of New Hampshire and on Vermont Public Radio. It runs an online teen writing community, youngwritersproject.org, which has only one rule: be respectful. It works with teachers in 63 schools who use YWP’s unique, free digital classroom platform and provides many with ongoing professional development mentoring and other teacher training. And it is developing NxN, a writing center at its Burlington headquarters. For more, go to youngwritersproject.org or ywpschools.net.
If you are a youth or you know a youth who is passionate about something and works hard at it, be it building models or flying or playing the drums or climbing cliffs, please contact Geoffrey Gevalt at ggevalt@youngwritersproject.org and tell him something about the youth and how to get in touch with her or him.
