8.5" x 5.5"
56 pages
(June 2009)

2-color silkscreened cover by Paul Morgan
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While reading Sherman Alexie's short story collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, I asked my class of 10th-grade students at Lowell High School in San Francisco to investigate the communities they belong to, particularly how their communities deal with problems, and role storytelling plays in the process. Students formed groups based around a self-selected shared community, chose an issue of interest, researched the issue and its effects with their group members,created poems together, wrote a narrative short story on their own, and shared their work with the class. The title is supposed to be like "OMG" but it's "OMZ." No adults including myself have understood that so I think it's a pretty successful title.