Last year my school produced the national champions for
grade 11 and 12, and my students are hoping to defend their school’s titles
this year. I’ve included summaries of each participant’s essay from today to
show just how wild my students’ imaginations can be!
Grade 11 Prompts
One thing I wish I could do that is not allowed is…
or
What does a blind person see?
Raksmey: I want to buy something without paying money. If
everything is free, maybe there would be no meaning, no hurt, no happiness, and
no success. The world would be broke because of the crowd of people.
Daro: There is an enchanted forest which no one can pass
through because ghosts will kill whoever passes through. A rich man declares
that he will marry his daughter to any man who can cross the forest, and one
man is successful. When asked by the rich father how he was able to cross, the
man explains that he was blind and not able to see; he just followed his dream.
Chanleak: Blind people have different lives, and they are able to see ghosts and spirits. Their blindness allows them to talk, play, study, and go places with the ghosts (including into the earth and inside trees). After time, blind people are able to integrate into the ghost culture, and their lives are fantastic.
Phanny: Blind people see black, blue, brown, gray,
orange, red, and yellow. They are not afraid of being eaten by tigers or lions
because they cannot see them. Everything is beautiful for blind people because
someone always takes care of them and all they need to do is sleep and eat.
Kea: We can’t see into the future like blind people. We
go about studying and working blindly to have unknown future successes.
Grade 12 Prompts
What would you do if you knew you were going to lose your
memory at the end of every day?
or
If death were a person, what would he/she be like?
Monorith (last year’s grade 11 national champion): His
mom poisons him with milk every day and while he sleeps a creepy woman causes
him to have no idea who his mother or his sister is. He doesn’t even know his
own name.
Panhasey: If he knew he would lose his memory every day,
he would tell his sweetheart, a cow. Although people think he’s strange for
loving a cow, he gets drunk and impregnates the cow. The cow bears a man-child
in the forest and then demands an iPhone. The cow uses the phone to call heaven
and then the happy couple elopes to the trenches of the sea where they visit
underwater clubs and ride on helicopters.
Saroth: Death tries to steal a dog, but Saroth tries to
stop him. Death’s face is very red, and he wears red clothes. His body is very
very fat, and his hands and legs are very very long. He has a big nose and
mouth, but most importantly, he has body odor and terribly bad breath. The
police come to try and save the dog from death by stalling death with a
toothbrush and a request for him to brush his teeth. Saroth then poisons death
with a cup of water and causes death to forget why he came in the first place.
Kunthea: Death would be rich, have smooth long hair, and
would meet a lot of sexy boys and girls. Death would hunt living people and
possess them in order to control and damage the world by 2016. When the world
is destroyed, death will destroy 5 other planets by developing them with ghosts
and monsters. These planets would have blond factories, ghost car factories,
ghost teeth factories, and especially spirit factories. Since death can only
live two hours after being born from bamboo, death must inhabit human spirits.
In sum, die now, or die in 2016.
Which story would you choose as the winner from each
grade? Let me know!
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