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1. Monster Lab: A Creative Writing Workshop for New
Orleans Youths with Big Class
by: Brenda McNary, volunteer
Monday, November 25, 2013
2. Monster Lab: The Team
•
Big Class’s mission is to cultivate and support the
voices of New Orleans’ young writers
•
Brenda McNary is a young professional in New
Orleans who volunteered as project leader
•
Additional volunteers included: Alex Jennings,
Logan Napoli, Barbara Crumm, and Charlotte
Houser
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9 New Orleans kids between the ages of 8-14
participated
Monday, November 25, 2013
3. Monster Lab: The Project
To inspire students to write creative stories around
Halloween time, Monster Lab was a three-day workshop
where students explored the theme of monsters through
writing projects, craft projects, and art.
Student projects were included in the official Journal of the
International Society of Monster Experts.
(a fictional group we created for the workshop)
Monday, November 25, 2013
5. What We Accomplished!
Project-based creative writing activities that
engaged and inspired kids and volunteers
“I loved hearing the endless flow of creativity that streamed from the kids when creating
their own monsters’ stories. It really told a story as well of the kids inner desire or maybe
fears and whimsical daydreaming.” Volunteer Logan Napoli
Monday, November 25, 2013
6. What We Accomplished!
THE JOURNAL
OF THE
VOLUME 38
NEW ORLEANS
ISSUE 1
EDITION
Monday, November 25, 2013
A special issue of the Journal of
the International Society of
Monster Experts
featuring stories and artwork by
Monster Lab writers!
Students took home copies of the
journal to show off their published
work to parents and friends.
7. Ongoing Work With Big Class
• Brenda McNary and other team members
plan to continue volunteering at Big Class
workshops and after school Open Studio
Monday, November 25, 2013
8. Why Monster Lab Should Win
The Challenge!
•
Big Class is currently seeking funding to improve its studio
space, purchase necessary supplies, and fund future
programming
•
Big Class is the only organization offering project-based
creative writing programming and workshops to New
Orleans schools and students free of charge
•
More information about Big Class, workshops and
publications can be found at www.bigclass.org
Monday, November 25, 2013
10. This book belongs to:
__________________________________________________
(clearly print your name and favorite monster here)
11. The Journal of the
Volume 38
Issue 1
NEW ORLEANS EDITION
Monster Documentation by
Otto Benischek
D’Andre Johnson
Shraivell Brown
Corey Marshall
Hector Campbell
Jaheim Marshall
Jamal Cook
Alaila Young
Marina Davis
12. The Journal of
the international
Society of
Monster Experts
volume 38
Issue 1
New Orleans edition
a Big Class publication
All rights reserved 2013
Printed at The Big Class Studio
in Press Street Headquarters
October 31, 2013
New Orleans, LA
EDITOR
Brenda McNary
DESIGNER
Doug Keller
PHOTOGRAPHY
Logan Napoli
MONSTER LAB ASSITANTS
B.A. Crumm, Charlotte Hauser, Alex Jennings, Logan Napoli
Special thanks to Sasha Marshall and Laura Stein
14. THE JOURNAL OF THE
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF MONSTER EXPERTS
GREENNODAYA
Height: Variable (she can turn very big,
Diet: Blood and veins from a person
and then turn very small)
Activities: Scares people and when people stand
Weight: 3 pounds, maybe
up she says “boo” and they fall back
Physical Description: Green hair, white
Does not like: She don’t like when they discover
shirt with blood on it, and she’s green
the lost city and when they throw foam at her.
Habitat: Haunted house in a lost city
Additional Information: Someone threw paint
Geographic Range: Worldwide
on her and she turned into fragile pieces.
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NEW ORLEANS EDITION
GREENNODAYA AND GIRL
I’M LADY FRANKENSTEIN
By Alaila Young
One day I saw two monsters. One of the monster’s names was Greennodaya and the other’s name was Girl I’m Lady Frankenstein. Both of them
was hunting people who sleep with their eyes open. They liked to eat veins
and blood from humans. They also like to scare people. They will pop you
if you’re not scared!
When it’s morning time they go back to the lost city and cook
veins and blood. They had bats around their house and they’re so mean
they don’t want anyone to discover the lost city because they’re worried
someone would figure out their weakness.
One day a scientist found their weakness. It was pizza. He
brought pizza with him and gave it to the girls and they said “let’s give it a
try.” Then they died and never returned again.
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16. THE JOURNAL OF THE
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF MONSTER EXPERTS
TEETHELER
Height: 4100 feet
Diet: Ribs. He grills them on his body with his
fire.
Weight: huge
Activities: Swimming in volcanoes.
Physical Description: Made of brick to
keep the fire in
Does not like: Liquid
Habitat: Woods and underground
Additional Information: Friends with Hot
Head.
Geographic Range: Asia
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NEW ORLEANS EDITION
SWIMMING WITH
MONSTERS
By Corey Marshall
I was hiking and saw Hot Head and Teetheler. They were jumping in a
volcano. Teetheler dove first. Teetheler kicked hot head. He flew out of
the volcano and he saw a monster named Scull Screamer who takes souls
from people. Teetheler was surprised. Scull Screamer screamed and saw
Teetheler, and then they all went swimming.
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INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF MONSTER EXPERTS
HOT HEAD
Height: 200 feet tall
Diet: Tropical fruits with grilled fish
Weight: 3 tons
Activities: Because he is on fire he likes to swim
in a volcano
Physical Description: Giant skull on fire,
suit made of metal because his body is on
Does not like: Water or anything that is liquid
fire, that’s why it’s made out of metal
Additional Information: He was friends with
Habitat: The woods
Teetheler until Teetheler pushed him into a
volcano full of acid
Geographic Range: Asia
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19. VOLUME 38 ISSUE 1
NEW ORLEANS EDITION
THE TIME WHEN I SAW
FOUR MONSTERS
By Hector Campbell
When I was in the woods of Asia I had a glance in my eye. It was two
monsters. I named them Hot Head and Skull Screamer. It was 1999. It was
night time. I was eight and I had a couple sodas.
Anyway, Hot Head was 200 feet tall and he had a metal suit. Scull Scream-
er had really really sharp teeth and green scales. Hot Head had sixteen
flames in his head and he had coal in his core.
Then I jumped on top of a canyon and I saw them really really
close up. It was the Super Bowl with the Eagles versus the Ravens. So I
made the best Ravens and Eagles jersey that I could make.
Then I saw another two monsters. Their names were Eye Brawl
and Tree Rex. Tree Rex had wooden horns on top of his head. Eye Brawl
had an eye stuck to his head and he can attach and re-attach his eyeball on
top of his head and it can shoot lazer beams. So Skull Screamer, Hot Head,
Eye Brawl, and Tree Rex could transform into vehicles like trucks and cars.
They all protected me from bullies and I became a superstar.
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INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF MONSTER EXPERTS
ZZZZAZZZZ!
Height: 2,000 feet
Diet: He eats poo and drinks toilet water.
Weight: 1,000,000 pounds
Activities: He takes a bath with toilet water.
Physical Description: Black, no feet, his
nose is 1,000,000,000 feet long! His teeth go
down to the earth.
Does not like: When people say hello he cries.
Additional Information: He eats his boogers.
Habitat: He’s an alien in space.
Geographic Range: In space
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21. VOLUME 38 ISSUE 1
NEW ORLEANS EDITION
D’ANDRE AND ZZZZAZZZZ!
By D’Andre Johnson
One day I was in the dark in the streets. I saw a big creature. “He is bigger than the clouds!” I said. His nose was 1,000000000 feet long. “I’m out
of here,” I said. So I tried to pass him. He checked me.
I was in so much pain, I said “oww!” So he said “do you want
to be my friend?” I said, “I have no monster friends but I will be your
friend. I will be the only one who has a monster friend!” So him and I said
“yaaaaaaaaaaaaa….”
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22. THE JOURNAL OF THE
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF MONSTER EXPERTS
DJ MCFURRY
Diet: People soup. Fried people. People with
Height: 5’11
cheese.
Weight: 185 pounds
Activities: Loves to howl. Likes to DJ.
Physical Description: It is covered in fur.
Does not like: People kicking his bush during
It has a long tail and sharp teeth.
sleep time.
Habitat: Bushes in the woods.
Additional Information: He can’t say alliteration. He works at Burger King. He scratches
Geographic Range: Temperate zone.
scary music.
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23. VOLUME 38 ISSUE 1
NEW ORLEANS EDITION
YOU WONDER WHAT YOU
MAY SEE IN THE WOODS
By Jamal Cook
I was just walking in the woods (which seems weird for an eleven-year-
old to do) when I saw a weird thing in the shadows of the trees. “Man I
should go back to the camp site,” I said. I heard a howl. I was so scared
I almost peed on myself. I started to walk backward until I crashed into
something. I almost screamed. I turned from my back (I really wish I
hadn’t). He was short and muscular.
“What up yo. I’m DJ McFurry in the house,” he said. I looked at
him stupid. “Dude, aren’t you supposed to be terrorizing me or something,” I asked. *GASP* “That is a vicious stereotype,” he said. I seriously
felt stupid for being scared of him. I walked to the camp site and went
back to sleep.
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INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF MONSTER EXPERTS
THE UNKNOWN CREATURE
Height: 30 feet
Geographic Range: New Jersey, England, and
Italy.
Weight: 1000 pounds
Diet: Sheep.
Physical Description: He’s half dragon and
half horse. He has one horn that’s gold and
Activities: Destroy villages.
one horn that is silver.
Does not like: Poo
Habitat: Woods
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25. VOLUME 38 ISSUE 1
NEW ORLEANS EDITION
THE UNKNOWN CREATURE
AND OTTO
By Otto Benischek
I went to England but I encountered a terrible horror in a naval shipyard.
It lurks like a shadow. The Unknown Creature was standing there waiting
for me. He chased me into the woods. He flew behind me. It was night-
time. You can always see his sword gleaming through. He has a gold horn
in his head. He has two horns- one’s silver and one’s gold.
I time traveled to 1941 in England on a Navy Shipyard. My job
was to untie ropes for the boats. I was in my 20s. It was a cold and snowy
winter. The Unknown Creature was still around.
One day I was untying ropes when The Unknown Creature
popped out! I grabbed my camera and took a picture while I could. It
died after I took a picture of it. It doesn’t like flash cameras. I think it was
blinded by the light and when it fell, it got stabbed by its sword. I went
back to the time machine and I went back to today.
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INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF MONSTER EXPERTS
HULKFRANK
Habitat: People’s basements
Height: 10 feet
Geographic Range: China
Weight: 990 pounds
Diet: Goats, birds, worms, roaches, chickens,
Physical Description: His face is weird,
and spinach
big eyes, small sharp teeth, pointy nose.
Black chest, very shiny. Stomach is hairy
Activities: Comes out at night and scares people
and bloated. Back is hairy, spine sticks
out of their beds.
out. Bloody and goopy. Legs are very long,
hairy, and watery. Feet are really skinny
Does not like: Ham, snow, sunlight, cars and
and stinky and his toes have long nails. He
streets, people vomit.the lost city and when they
has green curly hair.
throw foam at him. He also doesn’t like shadow
puppets. They scare him.
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27. VOLUME 38 ISSUE 1
NEW ORLEANS EDITION
WHEN JAHEIM MET
HULKFRANK
By Jaheim Marshall
W hen I first met Hulkfrank I said “are you my monster?” and he said
“yes.” He said “I don’t know anyone else. Can you help me?” I said “do
you wanna go check out my monster van?” He said “yes!” So we got to
the monster van and then ate monster ice cream and monster candy. So
then he got out of the van and said “I’m sleepy but I don’t have anywhere
to stay.” So I asked him did he wanna stay with me. He said yes! So on
the way to my house my neighbor made him mad so he shot fire at him.
He set his house on fire. When I came out to see what happened I was
shocked, and passed out! Then I woke up and he was gone. Never to be
seen again!
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28. THE JOURNAL OF THE
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF MONSTER EXPERTS
JAK. E. FOOKOMER
Geographic Range: 1736 George Street in New
Height: 6’9
Orleans
Weight: 156 pounds
Diet: Worms and snails
Physical Description: Half human, slob,
Activities: Likes to cook the worms crispy. Eats
brown face, slimey, razor sharp teeth, green the snails raw
skin, small feet, wears a suit
Does not like: Does not like the sun because it
Habitat: Old house. It is abandoned and
hurts his eyes.
filled with dead cats.
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NEW ORLEANS EDITION
WORMS! WORMS! WORMS!
By Shraivell Brown
It was a long way from home. I kept hearing something by my side.
Then when I turned he was there. I was very shocked. He kept screaming “Worms! Worms! Worms!” His back was green slime and brown hair,
and he wore a suit. He was 6’9 and 156 pounds. When I ran from him I
went in the old house, which was abandoned. There were a lot of dead cats
everywhere. I realized that the address was 1736 George Street. All I saw
were crispy worms and raw snails.
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INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF MONSTER EXPERTS
EPONINE
Height: 5 feet 5 inches
Diet: Drinks lemonade
Weight: 126 pounds
Activities: Likes to read. Prunes the lemon tree
in the backyard.
Physical Description: She wears a Mardi
Gras mask that has bullet holes in it that
Does not like: Any other juices (besides
never stop bleeding. She has green eyes
lemonade)
and black hair.
Additional Information: She’s only funny to
Habitat: In my backyard
children and nice ladies. She does not like guys.
She will trip or slap them.
Geographic Range: New Orleans
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31. VOLUME 38 ISSUE 1
NEW ORLEANS EDITION
MY FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH
EPONINE
By Marina Davis
I had just woken up from a noise that sounded like sobbing. I walked
downstairs afraid of what I might see. Once I reached the bottom I saw a
transparent figure staring not at me but possibly through me. I was paralyzed with fear as she reached out her hand towards my face and whispered
an odd name that sounded French. Then she suddenly drew her hand
back. I just stared, jaw on the floor, until I snapped back into reality. As I
stared in her direction I could see bullet holes in her pale face and on her
dress. These holes seemed to ooze blood continuously. I was disgusted but
curious, as much as I was scared. She started crying dark wet sticky tears
of blood. Then she had started to become more solid and I felt ashamed, as
though I was a murderer, though I didn’t know exactly why.
She stumbled back one step and turned to go. I reached out to
stop her but then drew back my hand just as she had. Not knowing why, I
felt like I had to watch her. She pointed towards outside and went through
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INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF MONSTER EXPERTS
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the door. I followed her. I had hesitated to follow her, but something convinced me to continue out to open the door. When I had gone outside and
I caught up with her, she was standing over the lemon tree and was pointing
down at the roots. As quickly as she had appeared, she was gone. I stood in
place shocked and unsure that I was not crazy.
As I returned to sleep in my room I still didn’t know if I believed I had seen a
ghost. Before I went to bed, I wrote in my journal “dig up lemon tree soon.”
I then went to bed to burrow under the covers to think, or not to think, more
like it.
The next day, my uncle visited for breakfast and told us of a young
girl who was killed during a storm, while hiding beneath a citrus tree for
shelter. She had been found there by thieves who had just killed her entire
family while she watched. I thought clearly that she was still under the lemon
tree. My mom served lemonade.
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33. MONSTER PARTY!
By The Monster Lab Researchers
I
t was an all out monster party. DJ McFurry was scratching records. Also Skull Screamer, Tree
Rex, Hot Head and Eyebrawl were there. The unknown creature was there and his shiny horns were
the disco ball. Greenadaya was there running people over with her car. Eponine the monster was
also at the party but she was in the bathroom the whole time. Jak E. Fookomer and Hulk Frank
were sitting at the VIP table and eating people, worms, roaches, spinach. They didn’t want anybody
else to sit with them. Teetheler and Hot Head weren’t talking to each other. Girl I’m Lady Franken-
stein arrived at the party and she and Greenadaya were talking to each other and smashing people.
There were a lot of great snacks at the monster party. There was eyeball soup, there were
fried people, there was blood punch. There were also cracker eyeball soups.
The Unknown Creature’s cousin the New Jersey devil was invited to the party. When he
got there, he didn’t want to stay, but the other monsters told him he had to stay for at least 2 hours
because it is a monster party. If you are a monster, you have to stay. If you are a human, you better
watch out.
DJ McFurry announced it was time to play the Monster Freeze Tag game. There were
two teams of five monsters each. The zombies couldn’t walk because their legs would fall off. The
unknown creature started to play but then decided to fly! He got in a dogfight with the New Jersey
devil. The other monsters started dancing. Skull Screamer, Tree Rex, Hot Head and Eyebrawl were
strutting around showing everybody their muscles!
Then the monsters decided to have a dance contest. A dance crew of four monsters
decided to do the Harlem Shake, it was Skull Screamer, Tree Rex, Hot Head and Eyebrawl. The
Death Crew dance crew ruled the dance party. There was a prize of $1,000 to the monsters who are
the best dancers. The judges were Drew Brees, Jay Z (with a swollen lip because he was rapping too
much), and the Miami Heat players. Each dance crew has its own unique dance moves. The dance
moves were back flips, stomping, hand stands. Greenadaya danced to Beyonce and Michael Jackson, she did back flips, and splits, and she knows all of the dance moves to the songs. The unknown
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creature doesn’t like dancing, so he continued to fly with his friend. The Death Crew dance crew
won the dance contest.
The monsters ate all of the food at the monster party. It was getting late and they ran out
of food. DJ McFurry asked the monsters to save him some food, but they didn’t. Then DJ McFurry
got mad. He stormed out, turned off the music, and said: “I’m not DJing your party anymore. That’s
what you get. I’ve been DJing this party for 14 hours and now I’m leaving.” He asked Frankenstein
to DJ but something went horribly wrong. Frankenstein put on the headphones and he heard the
two different songs in the headphones and he was upset and threw the DJ set on the ground. The
other monsters saw what happened and they all said, “We miss DJ McFurry.”
DJ McFurry decided he didn’t have anything better to do, so he came back to the party.
All of the monsters said “Yay!” DJ McFurry saw that his DJ set was broken and confronted Frankenstein. Frankenstein gave him 50 monster dollars to get a new monster DJ set. It took him four hours
to buy the DJ set and get it set up.
The other monsters were playing monster checkers while they waited. Frankenstein was
a monster checker master because he was cheating.
Once the DJ set was ready, DJ McFurry got up and said “Ohhh yeah y’all. It’s time for the
party!!!” At this point, the monsters had been at the party for 14 hours. This was the first monster
party they ever had.
Then the zombies arrived. They said, “we came here to dance!” When one of the zombies
tried to do a Michael Jackson dance, his arm fell off. He said, “I meant to do that.” The dance judges
decided the Death Crew were still the best dancers. Then the zombies tried to sing, but their lips
fell off. Greenadaya and I’m Lady Frankenstein were singing a Beyonce song, and then they started
to rip the zombies – “You tried to dance but your arms fell off!” The zombies said, “This is totally
embarrassing, we need to get out of here.”
At the end of the monster party, the monsters decided to go home. The monsters got
monster cake – it had eyeball icing and fur. They also had butter-blood ice cream and tongue
daiquiris. I’m Lady Frankenstein decided to sing and she sounded like an alien. The monsters all
went back to the underworld to have an 18 hour after party, except for the Unknown Creature, he
went back to England. Then they all did the Harlem Shake.
THE END
(or is it)
35. The Journal of The International Society of
Monster Experts Volume 38, Issue 1, New
Orleans Edition
was researched, written, and illustrated
by New Orleans writers ages 7-11 in
the Big Class Studio at 3718 St. Claude
Avenue during Monster Lab, a Big Class
workshop, October 28-30, 2013.
Big Class’s mission is to cultivate and
support the voices of New Orleans’
young writers through creative
collaborations with
schools and communities.
To learn more about Big Class,
our publications, and how to get involved, visit
www.bigclass.org.
