A Somewhat Creative Piece“NPWP 2013 According to Me”

By KiMar Gartman

A Disclaimer to Participants

Caution!

What you are about to read is NPWP according to me. You will find I took great liberty in giving you thoughts and soliloquies. If you like what you are about to see, so very, very happy I will be! But if you find my humor even slightly off key, I offer you now my sincerest apology.

IntroductionThere once were eleven fine

teachersWho met to discuss their job

featuresArticles & demos

Nonfiction & proseSharing with each other the

things that they know.

TheParticipants

Meghan the

Magnificent

2nd Grade

Teacher

Oh yeah!

Meghan the

Magnificent?! What am

I then?

Amanda the Amazing

English Teacher

I like it!

Amber the AwesomeComing of Age

Novelist And now my story is funny! Thanks,

guys!

KiMar the…This is my

project. I can be

whatever I want. Hmmm.

CrazyCreative

I’m not sure what I should be…Maybe just Courtney, the 7th Grade English

TeacherDon’t worry.

I already have one for

you.

Courtney the Captivating

You’ve got to

be kidding

!

Kierstin the Kind

English Teacher

Try again

!

Kierstin the Killer

English Teacher

Now you’r

e talkin

’!

I’ll take kind, Laura the Kind.

Laura the LongsufferingLiterature Teacher

Whatever!

Tyler the TenderDon’t make me come after you,

KiMar!tee hee

Tyler the TirelessTalented Teacher

Of Toilsome Teenagers

And don’t you forget

it!

Ow-Ow!Leslie the Lively,

LuminescentTeacher of 3rd

GradeRock

on, baby!

Hi, guys!

Oh no! My husband’s

been messing with my computer

again…AACK!

Hey! Who are you?

Susan the Swanky,Sophisticated,

Spanish-Speaking English Teacher

Swanky?

Well, as long

as I get my picture taken!

And me?

Betty the Beautiful,Benevolent 6th Grade TeacherNice

!

Our Facilitators

Come on, Dr. Fischer. If

you’re going to look confused, at least do it with a smile!

Oh alrigh

t!

How’s this, then, you pesky grad

assistant?!

Pesky?

Ron the PlainOl’ Ron

Now honestly, Tara. Is that really how

you feel after reading all those inquiry papers?

Let’s be real!

Okay, you want real.

Here it is…

I’ll simply die if I have to read one

more stinkin’

research paper!

Tara the Terrific, But Tortured

NPWP Facilitator

APA

I’m comin’ after you, Tara!

Okay…Bad joke.Moving right

along…

The 2013NPWP

Institute

Okay, who wrote the

cuss word? It’s

right here. Tyler?

Busted!

Posed pictures are so

awkward!

I know, but at

least I’m getting

my picture taken.

Okay, so about the

pesky grad assistant

thing. You didn’t really mean that, did you?

Of course not, KiMar. You were a wonderful

grad assistant—

nice, helpful,

hardworking!

Ah, thanks, Dr. Fischer.

It was pretty fun working with you

too.

Whew! Talked myself out of

that one!

Are you going to help with

this at all?

Yeah, hold on a sec…

I’ve almost passed

this level.

Into the life of every writer, there occasionally falls a little indecisiveness.

Idea #1II warned that jerk if he ever messed with me again, I’d

let him have it! I’m a believ

er now.

Do you ever feel hollow

inside, like your life is just an

outline sketched in the

corner of obscurity?

Idea #2

Mommy, I hurt my

finger. See?

Suck it up, Kid!

Oh, my poor little

dear…

Are youlistening?

How’s my listening

pose, Meghan

the Magnificen

t?

Lookin’ good,

Amanda the

Amazing.

Are YOU listening, Laura?Better than

Amanda, I’d say!

Hmm…I wonder if the GAP has any sales running

today.

Are you listening,

Tara?We

didn’t think so!

Ron Gets a Gift

Yippee!

Ron’s Reactionto His Gift

An APA Manual? But

I’ve heard Sports

Illustrated has nice

articles this time of year!

We’re too sexy for our pictures!

I know what you’rethinking…

What happened to Courtney?

Are you

kidding?

A Focus on

Courtney

COURTNEY

Hmmm. I’m beginning to think she might not be happy about the

“Focus on Courtney.”

Hey! Anybody

seen Betty?I heard she

got a juicy love letter from her husband!

Yoo hoo, Betty!

Pssst!

She’s not

listening to any of

us!

Must be a good one!

Okay, so are you sure we

can do it?

Of course I’m sure.

It’ll be easy! Trust me!

I’m not finding

this very easy,

Amanda.

Wow! Me neither. Sorry, Susan.

No problem! At least I got my picture taken.

Do you really think that every slide has to have

talking bubbles?

Don’t you think there should be

some slides without

bubbles?

Ahhh, what a letter! Is it time to go

home yet?

It’s just that I think there are too many

talking bubbles.

No disrespect, but I don’t

fricken’ care about talking

bubbles. Let’s focus and get

done!

About the talking

bubbles...let the

pictures talk for

themselves.

Okay. That’s what I’ll do next.

Smiles to BrightenYour Day

And saving the best smile for last…

So cute!

And now for the Writing Prompt:

“These people have something to say.

What is it?”

?

?

?Oh, the

one-finger

speech!Woo hoo! Aren’t you glad the talking

bubbles are back?

Okay, maybe not!

WorkWrite

WorkWrite

We’re so busy…

We’re going berserk!

Why aren’t you

smiling, Meghan

?

I’m an artist and my

work was interrupted for a stinkin’

picture? Gosh!

Just kiddin

g!

Good one!

Once upon a time

in a villagefar away

lived a mouse named

Murphey…

Murphy wasa strange

mouse becausehe’s afraid

of two things:Cheese—

Swiss cheeseand

tall men with black

baseball caps.Murphy

would freakout at the

sight of suchmen or cheese.

AAAACK!!Please

spare me, oh terrible wearer-of-the-black

hat!

Good grief, KiMar. Isn’t

this presentation

over yet?

Pesky, isn’t she?

Hey! I heard that!

And now the Conclusion…

And that’s the story of our classIt was wonderful, but it went too fast.

Thanks Ron & Tara for all you’ve doneWe learned a lot and had great fun.

To my summer friends I say goodbyeMay this year you find your wings to fly!

The End