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Scotty Flesch of Tunbridge loves baseball and especially Derek Jeter. “He is my favorite player of everything!” Scotty says. “He’s a good hitter and a good sport, too, which I like.” During the past school year, in Mrs. Dutton’s fourth grade class at Tunbridge Central School, Scotty wrote two short poems about baseball, “Jeter’s Number 2” and “Over the Wall,” a haiku.
Jeter’s Number 2
By Scotty Flesch,
a rising fifth-grader at Tunbridge Central School
I dreamed
I was Derek Jeter
At Yankee Stadium
Hitting a home run
With my bat
Over the Wall
The hard hit baseball
Watch it fly high through the sky
It’s over the wall
About YWP
YWP publishes about 1,000 students’ work each year here, in 19 newspapers across Vermont and in parts of New Hampshire and on Vermont Public Radio. It runs an online teen writing community, youngwritersproject.org, which has only one rule: be respectful. It works with teachers in 63 schools who use YWP’s unique, free digital classroom platform and provides many with ongoing professional development mentoring and other teacher training. And it is developing NxN, a writing center at its Burlington headquarters. For more, go to youngwritersproject.org or ywpschools.net.
If you are a youth or you know a youth who is passionate about something and works hard at it, be it building models or flying or playing the drums or climbing cliffs, please contact Geoffrey Gevalt at ggevalt@youngwritersproject.org and tell him something about the youth and how to get in touch with her or him.