Morehead Writing Project

Dr. Deanna Mascle's Fall 2019 Writing I Classes

First-year writing students at Morehead State University

Dear America

America break up letter.

Broken America

This is a poem that brings all my ideas about mass incarceration, the issues towards felonies' rights ,and the impact this has on the American dream in one piece of writing. I have also added an illustration I drew to further push these ideas.

To the Broken, You are not Alone

My poem and letter are to those people who don't think life is worth living anymore. It is for the people who are giving up on everything and have no sense of hope anymore. If you are someone like this, I pray you find help. I pray you find hope.

My Dad's American Creed

Going through the American Creed process really had me curious about how my dad would respond the whole time. So, for my project I decided to find out how he felt in a video interview by asking the same questions.

Make a stand, Change the world

Don’t settle for less, Work for more We always say we try to do better But never start doing We always say we need to be better But never start to be Nobody ever looks in the mirror Maybe it's time we do that We need change Now How could everyone

MY AMERICAN SACRIFICE

This is a series of haikus about my lover and his dreams. Integrated in this written creation are my hopes how things will work out, reality, and my greatest fear. The poem is divided into 7 parts to represent every day of the week.

What it's like to be me.

It's just simply a poem describing what I feel like being an american citizen.

Treat Others How They ALL Deserve

This letter encourages others to treat others with equality and to realize that everyone is in fact, human.

Okay, Boomer

A reflection of the world and generational divides in our country between baby boomers and millennials, as written by a millennial.

Dear America

This letter was to bring attention to how powerful America can be as a nation. It was designed to point out the flaws America has right now so they can be addressed and corrected in the near future.

Eclipse Glasses

Colored storms meets the catastrophic miracle.

More responses from Kentucky

Surprise Me

My American Creed

My American Creed - To me, it's not about my bloodline. It's about my liberties, my rights, the rights I get to exercise, my government, and my choices.

My American Creed

My speech is about my personal American creed and what it means to me. What I believe makes me American is my freedom, responsibility, and equality. Everyone in America is held to the same standard and has the same opportunity to achieve greatness.

My American Creed

My Google Slide presentation is about how America is defined by our diversity, equality, and opportunity.

Liberty Bell

These are words I chose that describe the American Creed in the shape of a bell.

Caleb King american creed

This is about my American Creed

American Creed

Being American means you have endless choices and freedom to believe in or be whatever you want like careers, politics, sexuality, and religion. America is a land of fruitful opportunities and boundless freedom where you can be anything as long as you work towards your goals.

American Creed

My version american dream is free education, justice in court, and democracy as a government.

My words of American Creed

These words symbolise my American Creed, they all mean something to me. Freedom shows everyone has free rights. Equality shows everyone is equal. Dreams shows that everyone can believe what they want. Independence contributes to all of the other three words before independence.

my american creed by jordyn miller

my american creed

My American Creed

These things all show my American Creed but we all have FREEDOM of speech, religion, press and bear arms.

amricam creed ed

this is my think of my amrican creed

Tyler Ochs American Creed

My American Creed is about our freedom's, army, and government.

More responses about "change" and "home"

Surprise Me

Red White and Blue

The United States of America is a country that’s full of opportunity, greatness, and the chance to really become the best person you can be.

What Americans Do

People tend not to realize how much their life changes overtime until it's brought up. In a society where we're told anything is possible, can our childhood dreams really come true?

American Creed

The more we ignore the issues we are facing, the more people are going to turn away and lose faith in their communities.

The Bobby Smith Show: American Creed Addition

This is a story about the American Creed. Twin girls are on a talk show and being interviewed by, the host, Bobby Smith on how they feel about the American Creed.

American Creed

My piece is about how we as a country can come together and accomplish things in the future, instead of being in a constant static state.

Expectations of America

This piece is an attempt to explain what it takes to move one's entire life across the world. It shows what makes one want to leave and what makes one choose America. The boy pictured is my father at age 11, on the bottom, where he came from; above, where he wanted to go.

Sydnee's American Creed

This video that I have made is an articulation of my American creed. Throughout this video I have interviewed three family members on my dad's side. American Creed Citation: Ball, Sam, director. American Creed. WTTW and Citizen Film, 2018.

My American Creed

For my American creed project I wrote a poem. My poem answers the question “What is your American creed?” My poem explains my American creed and it describes how I feel using three of my keywords. My keywords are tragedy, optimism, and home.

When I Think of Home

The American Creed is not always as equally attainable as it may seem.

Change In America

My friend Giordan and I made a slide show describing the hardships for Americans in "marginalized areas". In the slides we described how there still is hope for America and how these hardships can be changed. With us coming together in Unity, we can change America.

How my family shapes my American Creed...

My project, looking through the lens of my father's American story, focuses on how my family has shaped my view of the American identity.

A Chance for Change

Three stories from my family history that exemplify my American Creed.

A land of change

This is a poem about change and why it is such a vital aspect of American culture and how it is a part of us.

The American Creed Through Action

In my essay I discuss what I believe the American Creed is, and how we can promote it through action. Change doesn't need to mean a big commitment or a large cost, and can be as easy as helping a neighbor.

Anyone Can Find Potential

In our class we had to express our beliefs or belief in an I Believe essay. My belief was that I believe anyone can achieve what they put their minds to. This partly explains the American creed in my eyes, the ability to dream anything and make it a reality.

Religion of America

My piece is about the rituals and symbols that make us American compared to the past to the modern day. The image is to compare the things we think of when someone says the word America, and how we treat them as symbols of our own identity, and the way we worship them.

America is Not Perfect but It Can Try to Be Better

Some things that I think America did wrong. We need better. We want better.

Writing Our Future

My essay is about change in America. I talk about how the typical 21st century American should be and my experiences growing up as a hispanic woman in the United States. I write about the change I want to see and how it can be done.

Make a stand, Change the world

Don’t settle for less, Work for more We always say we try to do better But never start doing We always say we need to be better But never start to be Nobody ever looks in the mirror Maybe it's time we do that We need change Now How could everyone

My American Creed

Freedom of Individuality leads to united success.

My American Creed

My American Creed is that America will always have the opportunity to evolve and better itself to create a more unified nation.

A More Perfect Union

The belief that you can create change through action is an essential American characteristic. We express our national creed by speaking out for what we believe in and trying to improve our nation.

Supporting America

A major part of being American is that you don't have to support America. In fact, this helps the country grow and change.

What Makes Me An American

What makes me and millions of other people Americans. That would be our American Creed everyone has it, but not everyone knows what it's about. So come find out My American Creed.

Writing Our Future: American Creed is part of the National Writing Project’s family of youth publishing projects, all gathered under the Writing Our Future initiative.

Writing Our Future projects are designed by educators for educators and the young people they work with. Intended for use in schools, libraries, and other educational settings. All projects are COPPA compliant and educator-managed. NWP is committed to supporting young people’s writing and civic participation by providing a safe and supportive environment for youth writing, media creation, sharing, and publishing.