Fair Street students publish fifth edition of Tiger Tales

Posted 12:00PM on Wednesday 27th April 2016 ( 9 years ago )

Fair Street Elementary Students met Lucile the Golden Tiger Tuesday after the fourth grade students wrote stories about her.

Lucile is the mascot for Brenau University, and was the star of this year's Tiger Tales program. The elementary students learned pre-writing and the writing process with students from three education courses, taught by Dr. Donna Cherveny.

"The courses I'm teaching are developing young writers," said Cherveny "Our whole point was our Brenau ladies were able to get experience in teaching the writing process and the students were able to gain that knowledge." She said her students set up camp all semester over at Fair Street School to work with the kids and teach them about the writing process, then editing the stories and publishing the books.

The theme for this year's anthology was Lucile saves the day, and the students in Mrs. Eve Reeves class donned capes, complete with tiger tails, and each received a hardbound version on the anthology, filled with the stories they wrote and the illustrations they drew.

"They created a super hero, Lucile, and each story individually dealt with a different challenge and Lucile saved the day in the end."

This edition of Tiger Tales is the fifth year of the program, which is grant funded by Target, according to Cherveny.

One Fair Street student plays with a Brenau themed pom-pom included in a goodie bag at the event today. Photo: AJ Reynolds/Brenau University

Students read from the anthology. Photo: AJ Reynolds/Brenau University

A student reads from the published book. Photo: AJ Reynolds/Brenau University

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