Poems about the National Debt: a Partnership between the CTC Writers Guild and Net Impact

What we think of the National Debt

Growing heavier

Each year on the shoulders of

Our Grandchildren

by Mark R.

The debt grows slowly

Chains tying down the power

Of our nation

by Mark R. 

Sunk into the depths

Money spent that was never held

A debt of depths

by Ryan N. 

Money Overflows

Debt is insurmountable

It must be stopped now

by Amare D. 

Selfishness corrupts

Out comes propaganda from 

Illegal funding

by Judah K.

The U.S. Federal debt keeps

Skyrocketing, generation after generation

Society cares more about themselves

Than to the health of the country

by Laisha C.

Neverending Loss

Inflating like a balloon

The National Debt

by Shelianne M. 

National Debt weight

is overwhelmingly great 

How will we survive?

by Nathaniel R.

Writers Guild Meeting Minutes 11/13/2024 (if you read it all the way through, you will find an amazing thing!)

 

Writers Guild 11/14/24

There were 28 members in attendance: Judah, Laisha (new member), Jadan, Madison, Kiera, Sheli, Jonathan, Ryan, Jacob, Logan (new member) Tajane, Christina (our Net Impact friend), Isabella, Gina, Mark, Amare, Caleb, Roman, Jayla, Sania, Nathaniel, Jennifer (new member), Jessica, Max, Sean, Kim, Edward, and Cindy

Announcements were made.

1) We need elves for Lighting of the Bell Tower Dec 3 from 6-8pm.

• Let Cindy know if you want to work it. 
• She will need your phone number. (Email it to her - don't reply to this email). 
• So far we have Judah, Sheli and Amare.
• You may get some type of elf shirt if you work.
• I’ll let everyone know.

2) Gina will be graduating, so we will have a Presidential election at the next meeting.

• Gina, you've been awesome and we'll miss your leadership!

3) The next meeting is on Wednesday Dec 4 at 4pm.

• We had to reschedule it because in 2 weeks we are in Thanksgiving break.

4) Our last meeting on Dec 11 will be a holiday party.

• Bring snacks and we can play games and have fun.

5) Haunted House/Fall Festival people, read the text I sent! I need an answer. 😊

 

For In-Guild activity:

• We played a one-word story game

• Then we created Haikus

• Some made Haikus about the National Debt and gave them to Christina for Net Impact

• We discussed the National Writing Contest and decided to do one from Friday Dec 13 to Jan 6 or you can start now and be done on Jan 6

• We realized we had new members so did the Meet and Greet later in the meeting

 

For Out-of-Guild activity:

Gina suggested that everyone work on answering the college question: “Tell us who you are.”

If anyone needs the Discord link, send a separate email to me. Laisha and Jennifer, I'll send you one. 

Amazing thing, I promised:

You are all amazing, inspiring, and creative! We are so glad that you are in our Guild! 

Later, gators, 

Meeting Minutes Oct 16, 2024

 

Writers Guild meeting Minutes 10/7/24

There were 32 members in attendance: Gina O, Jacob, Judah, Madison, Sheli, Keira, Caleb, Jonathan, Skyler, Ellie, Jayla, Randy, Jessica T, Laisha (visitor), Mark, Jeremiah, Edward, Isabella, Thomas, Roman, Gina M., Gina M’s Mom, Amare, Max, Cody (visitor), Christina (visitor), Nathaniel, Sean, Sania, Violet, Savannah, and Cindy

·         We did a brief introduction

• ·         We broke up in clan groups: musicians, artists, writers, poets, and video makers
• ·         Our activity was to create a fantasy video with input from each clan
• ·         Our guild war winners were our observers. 😊 Congratulations!

We made a Haunted House actor change, and briefly discussed that.

• ·         If you’re working it or the Fall Festival, please read the email I sent earlier this week.

Then, Net Impact asked the guild to participate in a National Debt Matters to You campaign.

• ·         Here’s more info:
• ·         https://youtu.be/c-19TrJfx7I?si=NQZwCi_9J0DvHpCm
• ·        https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/nationaldebt
• ·         They asked us to submit writing and art depicting our thoughts on national debt
• ·         Deadline Oct 31 (Halloween).
• ·         Send your submissions to: development.nictc@gmail.com

Rotating Student Art Exhibit Contest

• ·         Deadline next Wednesday, Oct 23:
• ·         Info https://d2jv02qf7xgjwx.cloudfront.net/accounts/203141/images/Rotating_Student_Art_Exhibit_contest.jpg.
• ·         Registration: https://forms.gle/RK6pmRwFqP2fWiy48
• ·         Must be a CTC student to enter.

Our next meeting is October 30 at 4pm, the library, room 211

See you then!

 

 

 

Meeting Minutes Oct 2, 2024

 

Writers Guild Meeting Minutes Oct 2 2024

 

We had 32 members in attendance: Jacob, Laisha, Kim, Violet, Nathaniel, Ellie, Jessica, Isabella, Sean, Dez (welcome back!), Thomas, Mark, Tajane, Keira, Shelli, Sania, Jonathan, Caleb, Amare, Maddie, Max, Amara, Ryan, Judah, Madison, Savannah, Allyra, Jess, Faye, Roman, Gina and Cindy (hopefully, I didn’t miss anybody)

We welcomed new members and tried to remember everybody’s names.

We verified who is working the Haunted House Fall Festival (I attached the list) please read it! 😊– if you want to be added, please email Cindy at coser2@ctcd.edu.

We played a game where everyone comes up with one character. Then we yell out a genre, and you have to incorporate it into your story.

• Horror
• Sci Fi
• Comedy
• Western
• Then draw a picture that illustrates the story.
• If you want to bring it next time to share or post it on Discord, we’d love to hear it.

Our next meeting is Weds Oct 16 at 4pm- 5:30 in the library.

One of our members (Edward) turned in a really fun idea for the next meeting:

Guild War! Who has the most creative Clan?

• We split up in groups of creative clans – musicians, poets, writers, artists, playwrights, photographers, podcasters, video makers, and gamers. Everyone has to decide which clan they want to join.
• Every clan will be given a task to complete.
• The best voted clan by the guild wins!
• What do they win? Respect! Kudos! And Bragging Rights!
• This will give us all a chance to work together in groups to get to know each other better.
• We’ll have more chairs. 😊

If anyone has a fun idea for an activity, please email me and I will get it to Gina.

Share on Discord, keep creating, and remember that you are one of us! We’re really glad to know you!

Talk to you soon and see you at the next meeting.

Have an fun, creative week!

Sept 18 Meeting Minutes

 

Writers Guild Meeting Minutes 09/18/2024

We had 24 members in attendance: Gina, Jeremiah, Amare, Judah, Allyra, Maddie, Ellie, Sean, Ryan, Thomas, Jacob, Mark, Jessica, Madison, Amara, Nathaniel, Max, Sania, Jonathan, Violet, Caleb, Edward, Cindy, and Savannah came at the very end. 😊

We voted in new officers:  Congratulations!

·         President – Gina

·         Vice President – Edward

·         Secretary – Jessica (she put My Little Pony stickers on the minutes – our kind of person) 😊

·         Student Government Representative - Jessica

·         Treasurer – Jonathan

            Treasurer Subcommittee –Moolah Mongrels (we will set up meeting room in Discord)

§  Jacob                Amara

§  Nathaniel        Jeremiah

§  Jonathan

What we did in the meeting –

·         We shared our work.

·         Thank you all for sharing!

·         As I always say, you guys are extremely talented!

Very important! We will meet in room 209 in the library for our next meeting (Oct 2) or outside. If you don’t see us outside at 4 pm, then we are in room 209 upstairs in the West Wing

Meeting Minutes for 9/4/24

 

Writers Guild Meeting Minutes 9/4/2024

There were 20 members in attendance: Brittney, Caleb, Jadan, Tajane, Amare, Jacob, Judah, Max, Jessica, Jonathan, Sheli, Amara, Mark, Levi, Roman, Sania, Nathaniel, Violet, Madison, and Cindy

Welcome to our new members! We’re glad you joined the guild.

During the meeting we:

1. Introduced ourselves.
2. Created writing and art with random words, then combined for one big bizarre story.
3. Briefly discussed officer roles because we will vote next week
4. Briefly touched upon the Haunted House and Fall Festival

Out of Guild Activity

• Please bring your creative work and we will share next week
• Consider if you would like an officer role

Next week

• We will vote new officers in – Gina and Edward, please be at the meeting in person so we can vote
• Share our creative work
• Review who is doing what at the Haunted House/Fall Festival

If you have activity ideas, please send them to Cindy at coser2@ctcd.edu

 Here’s the Discord link: https://discord.com/invite/DNfxGvXW It expires in 7 days.

Here’s the blog link: https://ctcwritersguild.blogspot.com/

 Next meeting is Weds, Sept 18 at 4pm. See you then!

9/4/2024 Meeting agenda

 Hi guys, 

Our next Writers Guild meeting is tomorrow at 4 pm - 5:30 pm. For our High School members, it's ok to come late. We know you get out later than 4 pm. 

Tomorrow's agenda 

1) Meet and Greet our new members

2) In guild activity - Random word story using Apples to Apples and random words from our box

 

• Can write a story
• Or draw a picture
• or write a poem
• or take a photograph
• That depicts all the words

3) If we have time, we can put all of our work together for one big creation

4) Talk about electing officers at the next meeting

5) Share what you are working on

6) Out of guild activity

• Send ideas for fun creative activities to Cindy, so she can get them to Gina for the agenda. 
• Bring what you have been working on to share

7) Verify who is doing what during the Haunted House/Fall Festival

I'll send a link to join virtually if you can't make it in person. 

Later guys,