Gone are the days of sentence diagramming, organically structured essays and high school term papers. Students who know about the subjunctive mood, present continuous tense or nominative case likely learned them from studying foreign languages or grammar books. This trend in education to leave grammar...
Singer-songwriter sophomore Mariam Kubursi began singing when she was three years old. She quickly found a passion for it and started writing her own lyrics during the early stages of the pandemic.
On most occasions, the lyrics come randomly to Kubursi while washing the dishes or even in the middle...
Time at home has allowed many students to discover interests that they love. For those who enjoy doing deep dives into topics that excite them, the Titan Journal of High School Research is the perfect place to publish well-researched papers on academic subjects.
The research journal, a newly-chartered...
Over quarantine, students have turned to a new medium to spark connection and creativity: writing. Freshman Irene Tsen founded the collaborative writing project The Prose Train to help students improve their writing in a non-competitive environment.
To Tsen, the core value in collaborative writing...
Senior Vincent Lomeland was only eight years old when they first dreamed of becoming a writer. Every now and then, they would jot down fragments of an ambiguous story’s plot and fractions of a character’s life—a young and naive, but active, attempt to begin their writing career. Little...
Written by Joy Huang
Ever since she was young, French teacher Anne Dumontier loved reading and writing. Now, she promotes francophone culture by participating in and leading French book clubs and writing groups. “When you read novels, biographies or essays, you learn about the culture of the characters...
Written by Liza Kolbasov
Senior Priya Thomas joined the ranks of 167 finalists of the National YoungArts competition, making it into the top 8.67 percent of applicants receiving one of the nation’s highest honors for writing. She became one of over 20,000 alumni who have gotten this...
Written by Clara Kieschnick-Llamas
Psychology teacher Warren Collier has taken part in NaNoWriMo for the past three years. This year, however, Collier will focus on editing one of his previous novels rather than writing a new one.
Collier often thought about writing a novel, but never had the motivation...
Written by Deiana Hristov
On Nov. 1, writers all over the country roll up their sleeves and start writing to complete their goal: finish a 30,000 to 50,000 word-long novel in a month. Although writing more than 1000 words a day may be daunting, junior Jojo Qi has participated in National Novel Writing...
