Day 10 Writing Homework
Prompt :
Write the exciting opening (250-300 words) of a feature article about a hidden or unusual part of your school or home that most people don’t notice. Choose one or come up with your own:
The basement of your house
The janitor’s storage closet
The roof (if accessible)
Behind the stage in the auditorium
The shed in your backyard
The oldest classroom in school
Try to incorporate a catchy title, sensory details, similes, metaphors, personification and other figurative language devices. Focus on transforming your creative writing skills into feature article writing techniques!
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- Due Date : July 20, 2025
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Behind the Shed:Where the World Holds its Breath
There’s a place in my backyard where the map ends. Not with a dragon or a dotted line, but silence. It’s a place too small for someone to notice, too quiet for the birds to sing. Yet in that hush, the world seems to inhale and hold it.
You wouldn’t call a door just a sagging slat of wood, half- covered in ivy, as if nature itself was trying to erase it. The first time I noticed it, the light felt different, like if it had its own separate world. Sharper. Like the kind of light that filters though dreams or old photo albums. Something ancient hummed behind the walls off the shed, like a secret trying not to be heard.
Every step down that narrow passage felt like sinking into a forgotten sentence in a long lost book. It smelt damp and green like mossy childhood memories. The air was a layer of snow with the hush of stories untold, with the whispers that never made it to the end of the page.
I don’t go behind the shield every day. Some days, the world is too loud, and that place would feel too quiet. But when the sky turns the colour of old bone and the crows gather in threes, I find myself drawn back.
To the place where the air is like snow with remembrance.
To the garden that grows, not towards the horizon’s glaze but towards the past.
Waiting.
Just like me.
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2 – 10-D10 – Camilla Huang
The Secret passage no one noticed
Ding! Ding! The school bell rang; everybody shoved each other trying to get to their classrooms on time before they get a consequence. I dodged the rocks, ran up the stairs, and jumped straight into the line, right on time. Mr Henson (my teacher) took us inside the class to start a math lesson.
“Today’s math lesson is going to be about angles.” Explained Mr Henson.
“UGH!” Growled the class.
“You shouldn’t be so ungrateful for what you learn!” Replied Mr Henson
While Mr Henson was teaching angles to the rest of the class I was drawing at the back of my math book. But soon I got bored and started to listen to the lesson. Ding! Ding! It was time for recess.
While I was playing, I found a bump in the corner of the library. I went to go look and I found a secret passageway. I went down through the secret passageway. The darkness was in my eyes, I moved a bit in the cramp, and I saw the most amazing thing I saw diamonds, gold, emerald, ruby.
“Lilly!” Shouted my friend Veronica.
I quickly came out of the cramp and covered it up with a sheet I found nearby. Ding! Ding! We had to head back to our classrooms. We went inside our classrooms and started to learn again; I kept thinking about the cramp I saw.
I asked Mr Henson “If he knew about the cramp.”
Mr Henson said he “Didn’t know about it.”
Ding! Ding! It was lunch time I went to go and see the cramp again, but this time there were no diamonds, ruby, emerald, gold. I was shocked I thought someone took all the gems.
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DAY 10 FEATURE ARTICLE
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2 – 10-D10 – Poojyasrita Kurra
At 9:30 AM, I was still stacking books, utterly exhausted, and eagerly awaiting the bell. My hair clung to my mouth as I struggled with the heavy load.
The hallway was eerily silent making the task completely effortless. Everyone had vanished into their classrooms, leaving me with this task. My walk of books and my eyes suddenly caught a view of a spectacular thing.
never-before-seen golden shimmer awaited guests. I trembled, with my foot shaking against the floor. It was the janitor’s room, plain boring and extremely noxious and pungent. The light appeared with 8 different letters. My mouth gulped, scared to the top of my lungs.
I snatched it out of the light and skimmed through the letter. The only thing I could feel was my mouth dangling with shock. “ You guided the way through your task, now darling you must be rewarded.” I then proceeded to read the second letter.
A gold necklace and candy are presented in a gift box. Happiness filled my eyes as I held my reward very gently. I hid the gift box in the back of my bag, a smile plastered across my face.
Each day, I completed a task and earned a special present. It was incredible that such an amazing reward was hidden in the Janitor’s closet. I felt incredibly grateful and proud of my achievements over the past few weeks.
It made me feel more motivated to do my everyday tasks without hesitation. The golden shimmer wasn’t just about earning new presents everyday. It was about teaching me the important things and how I need to manage my tasks.
Ajna mohapatra!!
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2 – 10-D10 – Ajna Mohapatra
OUR SCHOOL’S HAUNTED LIBARY
18th July 2025. I beamed out of the beaming colours of the restricted section of our school library, not being able to imagine what I just saw. I hovered my hands over the something way beyond materialised imagination, where colours once beamed and now drained under the restricted section where I once accidently stepped in. Every discarded ancient book revealed another majestic face of my school, one that no one could ever imagine.
My day unravelled like a regular school day until I went to sit in the library. Every second that ticked by made me feel that I was getting watched but then I had seen it myself. A modicum crowd of old and wise scientist crowded over a dead body, as blood trickled down the hands of one, they hid in the library corner forgetting to close the door. For a second, I thought it was my friend but was she really one I knew of?
The seconds drove like multiple feelings as questions danced across my brain like flying butterflies, each leaving a trace of its own fingerprints. I peered at through the hall, that was now not covered as I full down the wallpaper, I felt a sense of eerily calmness at its full extend.
Every minute that passed by felt like an hour of a horror movie that I had to watch, while each second sang a chorus of the dark secrets behind this school. More questions trickled upon me like ghosts approaching while every stoke in the mirror looked if it was painted my Caravaggio. Akin to her chiaroscuro technique of light and shadow. I stood still, as still as the books on the library’s shelves watching everything in mid-air. I was scared. Very.
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2 – 10-D10 – goelonline
One thousand years ago
Have you ever wondered why the grass in the exact centre of the soccer pitch had a tiny bump? This is because there is a small door handle there. Under that is a city. City of gold found way under. No humans know that this place exist except me. If you go even lower down, you find jewels and diamond. No one knows about it except me but that wasn’t always the case. 1000 years ago, people made this place. They built it and found this treasure. They needed to hide it so they dug a very deep tunnel and put their glory in there. Over time, they forgot to say that the treasure was under the giant tree. Then all the trees were cut down and the space was covered with things. Now it is under a soccer pitch. When you walk inside the chamber, you will not find any animals there and the only other thing you will find there beside treasure is a graveyard with ancestors in it which is still technically treasure for some people. On a rock, there is some chalk writing which say, “If the place is found and all the treasure is taken, the beast will return and destroy the planet.” I am the only one who knows this place and if I don’t tell anyone about this place, planet Earth will be safe but if I tell anyone, planet Earth will be demolished.
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2 – 10-D10 – Katrina
The janitor’s closet
Most people in my school think or do not even notice that there is a janitor’s closet, people who think that all the yucky stuff goes in there which makes people take the janitor lightly.
But people who know what’s in the janitor’s closet find it delightful there,not because they are crazy, but because it’s really clean and nice there.Janitor’s closets are mostly hidden into walls which prevents kids from entering it. And you should definitely not take Janitor’s lightly, I mean they do all of the dirty work for you and you don’t appreciate it. That is not fair, how would you feel if you did something important for the class or school and you still did not get appraised. You would feel disappointed and also feel that the school does not welcome you.
People who work as a janitor are really depressed or don’t have money. So if we don’t continue to be helpful and thank them often it would lead to them being more depressed than ever. They would be thinking about not working in your beautiful school and if they do, the school won’t be maintained making yucky stuff like bacteria stay and if bacteria stay students will get ill and wont attend school
So technically you should not judge the janitor’s closet as that can lead your school in the wrong direction. What we should do is help them understand that your school is a very nice, obedient and caring school. .
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2 – 10-D10 – Abhijeet Pol
We all have that one mysterious, potentially dangerous location whether it would be at a friend’s house, school, or even our own homes. Today I am going to be talking about my own one, located right inside my school. The oldest classroom in the entire school has been sitting there, just waiting for someone to enter for it to unleash its massive destructive capacity. There have been rumours about the old place, many different ones, actually.
Some say that it houses a power-hungry creature of unknown origins. Others mutter about how it used to be the home of a vicious python who stole the souls of anyone who dared to come inside. Others forget about it even existing and continue to live our daily lives. That includes me, by the way. Well, at least until our classroom had been going through some renovations and some other class had claimed it as there’s.
Now we needed to move inside of the new classroom, which could potentially have a pack of hostile monkeys inside. Nobody wanted to go in first, so I volunteered. I slowly edged into the room, expecting a cup that had shark-like teeth to lunge out of the inky blackness. However, nothing happened. Everyone else finally calmed down and we managed to settle into the new space.
Now, I can assure you that if you have some location that you think has supernatural activity or just something dangerous, I can assure you that isn’t true. However, you should always be wary and expect anything. The number one trick for these circumstances that I used was to stay calm and slowly go in. Now that I’ve taught you how to deal with undisclosed locations that you don’t know much about, try it out yourself! Did it work? I think it will.
Goodbye, V
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2 – 10-D10 – Vihaan Rohit