Berry Middle School makes changes to literary magazine

Teacher sponsors Daniela DeLuca and Dianna Minor wanted to make the Berry Middle School’s literary magazine, The Phoenix, more student-centered while integrating writing and technology at the same time. 

Since the district has a one-to-one device program with Chromebooks, they knew they could implement the change. 

In August, the women developed a student writing staff and an art editing team made up of advanced eighth-grade art students. 

The student writers were recommended by English/Language Arts teachers and were students who were winners in the schoolwide poetry contest last spring. 

The goal is to publish two digital editions (fall and winter) and one printed edition in the spring. 

DeLuca and Minor are excited about the changes and hope that increasing the number of publications during the year will encourage creativity thus resulting in more students submissions. 

Students can submit poems, short stories, fiction and nonfiction, and original artwork.

– Submitted by Dianna Minor.