Writing History

I remember her perfectly manicured nails and how she expected perfectly manicured essays. It was not the content she acknowledged but the format in which they were completed. Then I remember walking into his AP English class and having the chair pulled out from underneath me. We read countless books and poems and wrote in any format and just wrote constantly. He both appraised our work and picked it apart. However, senior year in the midst of my senior-itis, he gave us something I will never forget. Our final project was to be anything we wished to write and however we chose to write it. A lifelong friend and I chose a compilation of lyrics and as seen below, painted our words to be forever read on the wall of our classroom. How's that for an authentic audience? I never felt my "writing" have so much power.