This is Bryce

Bryce was 7 at the beginning of this project. He is in Ms. Pierce's class. Arianna is his cousin. He has a computer at home. He likes to play Toontown which is a subscription mmo game for kids from Disney.

Bryce is the only student who made pop culture references in his stories and journal. The teachers' activities are very directed, but Bryce "writes stories" in his head natural at home and for fun. So he knows that he can tap that well.

In his pre-interview, Bryce was asked what kinds of stories he likes. He said liked science stories and he likes to tell make believe stories. He answered quickly without much hesitation. In fact the only hesitation in his entire interview was when he was asked about the writing he did at school. He did mention he writes about math... explaining his strategies. He said there was no show and tell and he didn't really raise his hand much to speak in class.

Bryce considers imself good at writing stories. When asked what makes a good story he said "pictures and words."

He also considered himself good at telling stories. When asked what makes that kind of story good, he said when "they figure it out. This means when the listener follows and understand events. I think this would be an issue with Bryce speaking with other children because his stories are long and often complicated and he uses interesting language.

Bryce's Mom noted that Bryce enjoys playing games on the computer. She glowingly reported that he has great vocabulary, loves to read, and reads very well in her opinion. She said he loves to be told all sorts of stories, but that she often tells him stories about his cousins and other family members.

Bryce's Writing Journal is mostly similar to the others' journals. This reflects teacher planning and collaboration across the grade level. The topics are mostly what they did that weekend. Bryce did find the opportunity to write a pirate story.

He named the characters.
He gave the story a title
He signed it by Bryce.
His story has a sense of beginning/middle and end.

In his what I did entries, he, like Michael expresses "having fun."

The pictures in his journal often reflect different

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I won't finish this right now, because I was working on Arianna. But the coolest thing about Bryce is that he is a writer. I was listening to the tape of the 2nd author's chair and I had them state their goals for their next piece. The other kids said stuff like make people laugh. And Chosen mentioned something he didn't remember later when he was making the third story.

Bryce SPECIFICALLY listed that he wanted to write a story about "talking fish with arms."

I knew the first story was something that had been churning inside him for a while. I could just tell by the way it spilled out of him. But it looks like he had other stories on tap and ready to go.


Post Interview:
Likes to play Toontown and Madagascar on his computer.
His favorite part of making these stories was drawing the pictures.
Of all the stories, he liked his last story the best.
Denies changing his voice for his story. (I don't know why... it's obvious that he did.)
What makes a good story: Bryce said different kinds of things... when pressed, he said, 'monsters, aliens.' so he means content makes a good story.