2009 Young Author's Fair

This past week, the Garrison/Baker schools held their Young Author's Fair. Each year the students write books, an invited speaker comes and does a presentation, and the students do some activities related to the presentation. 

Garrison School houses grades kindergarten through second with one teacher, and Baker School has third though sixth grades with one teacher.

Mrs. Phillips, teacher at the Garrison school, began the program outlining the afternoon's activities.

Then Denys Koyle, board member of the Great Basin National Heritage Partnership, got up and introduced the featured speaker.

The speaker was Dr. Leo Lyman, co-author of  A History of Millard County. He talked about some of the many books he has written, and then proceeded to ask the students if they could help him decide which of the many stories he knew about Snake Valley he should put in an upcoming book. 

He spoke about a range of stories from shootings to the establishment of a national park to people freezing to death to early pioneers. The students had fun at the end telling him which story they liked best.

Then it was time for the students to do a self-portrait using mirrors and write a story about some event that happened in their family histories.

Meanwhile their stories were on tables for others to read and leave comments. 

It was a fun activity and got everyone excited about writing.