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COUGAR CLAUSE !

...where Clark High School's Creative and Imaginative Writing and Film students collaborate, share, and showcase their originality, talent, creativity, ideas, feelings, and thoughts about the world and themselves... and where the Clark community, staff, faculty, parents, and citizenry can interact, and participate with us in these literary and academic endeavors.

Students submitted work throughout the fall 2009 semester and each created an anthology as his or her final exam at the end of the semester. Check out some of these OUTSTANDING ANTHOLOGIES submitted by our talented Creative Writing students.  They selected their best work in each category, illustrated, and produced a book for submission to this wiki.  Click on the links below to view some great work!!!

Ana C, Alex F, Gabby G, Cody C, Ashley R, Courtney C, Evelyn A, Casey A, Mitchell K, Nikki K

Cougar Clause Editors, Directors, and Staff

hom⋅o⋅phone - 

ˈhɒməˌfoʊn,ˈhoʊmə-/Show Spelled Pronunciation [hom-uh-fohn, hoh-muh-]  –noun 

clause - 

/klɔz/Show Spelled Pronunciatio[klawz] –noun

 

claws -

/klɔ/Show Spelled Pronunciation [klawz] –noun

1.	a sharp, usually curved, nail on the foot of an animal, as on a cat, dog, or bird.

2.	a similar curved process at the end of the leg of an insect.

3.	the pincerlike extremity of specific limbs of certain arthropods: lobster claws.

4.	any part or thing resembling a claw, as the cleft end of the head of a hammer.

5.	Typography. the hooklike projection from the right side of an r or from the bowl of a g.

6.	(in a motion-picture mechanism) a device having one or two teeth that hook into the perforations of a length of film and move it one frame at a time at any given speed.

7.	Jewelry. one of a group of slender, tapering metal projections rising from the base of a jewelry setting, used to hold a transparent or faceted gemstone in position. Compare prong (def. 4).

–verb (used with object)

8.	to tear, scratch, seize, pull, etc., with or as if with claws: The kitten clawed my sweater to shreds.

9.	to make by or as if by scratching, digging, etc., with hands or claws: to claw a hole in the earth.

10.	to proceed by or as if by using the hands: He clawed his way through the crowd.

–verb (used without object)

11.	to scratch, tear, or dig with or as if with claws: The cat clawed and hissed in fear.

12.	to make fumbling motions: He clawed at the door. She clawed for the light switch.

13.	Scot. to scratch gently, as to relieve itching.

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Origin:

bef. 900; (n.) ME; OE clawu; c. OHG chlō(a), akin to D klauw, G Klaue; (v.) ME clawen, OE claw(i)an, deriv. of clawu (n.); akin to D klauwen, G klauen

Through critical thinking, reading, writing, and creating, we are learning. We befriend the English language, a constantly evolving entity, while we polish our skills of grammar and mechanics, fine-tuning our dance with words through poetry, short stories, scripts, essays, and lyrics. Our "clause/claws" involve those bits and pieces of language and literature that "prick" the heart, sting the conscience, invite persuasion and argument, refresh our senses of humor, delight our fantasies, and conjure up reflective memories. We use the English language and technology to share everyday experiences of humanity, growing up in today's world of teenhood, facing tomorrow's world of young adulthood and beyond into the world of lifelong learning.