Lucrărilcreaţie l

organal

le premiate la a Viterară în limba e

nizat de CompartiBibliotecii Judeţ

VI-a ediţie a Concengleză Winter Wimentul Americanţene „Gh. Asachi”

cursului de Wonderland,

n Corner ” Iaşi

  

Juriul a fost format din:

– Shannon Foss – Magdalena Popa – Simona Lupu – Ioana Damian lucrările publicate respectă variantele originale transmise de către participanţi juriul a punctat, în principal, creativitatea şi implicarea autorilor

Coordonatori: Adriana Maftei, Eva Damian Coperta şi prelucrarea grafică: Cezar Baciu

ISSN 2458-0287 ISSN–L 2458-0287

Mulţumiri colaboratorilor:

Irina Prodan, inspector pentru limbi moderne ISJ Iași

Gabriela Anton Cristina Avram Raluca Bălan Daniela Busuioc Mirela Buzilă Cristina Alexandra Carp Dan Chihaia Alina Crăciun Elisabeta Hărățu Carmen Ilaș Simona Iordache Dana Larco Simona Lupu Andreia Macarov

Mihaela Manolache Cristina Mocanu Lucreţia Moruzi Roxana Nicola Narcisa Onu Mihaela Onuţă Carmen Florentina Perju Magdalena Popa Gina Prodan Alexandra Radu Mihaela Sârghie Raluca Tanasă Andreea Ursache Anca Voicu Andreea Zota

Instituții școlare partenere: Şcoala „Junior” Iaşi Şcoala Gimnazială Internaţională „Spectrum” Iaşi Şcoala Gimnazială „Ion Simionescu” Iaşi Școala Gimnazială „B.P. Hasdeu” Iași Școala Gimnazială Popricani, Iaşi Școala Gimnazială „Vasile Conta” Iași Școala Gimnazială „Al.I. Cuza” Podul Iloaiei Școala Gimnazială „Titu Maiorescu” Iași Școala Gimnazială „Ionel Teodoreanu” Iași Liceul Teoretic „Dimitrie Cantemir” Iași Liceul Teoretic „Lascăr Rosetti” Răducăneni Liceul Teoretic „Vasile Alecsandri” Iaşi Liceul Teoretic „Al.I. Cuza” Iaşi Liceul de Informatică „Grigore Moisil”, Iaşi Liceul cu Program Sportiv Colegiul Național Iași Colegiul Național „Emil Racoviță” Iași Colegiul Naţional „Mihail Sadoveanu” Paşcani Colegiul Naţional „Costache Negruzzi” Iaşi Colegiul Naţional „G. Ibrăileanu” Iaşi Colegiul Naţional „Mihai Eminescu” Iaşi Colegiul Tehnic „Gheorghe Asachi” Iași Colegiul Agricol și de Industrie Alimentară „V. Adamachi” Iași Palatul Copiilor Iaşi Seminarul Teologic Liceal Ortodox „Sf. Vasile cel Mare” Iaşi

 

 

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at my grandDecember daye grandparen

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houses are sleike the hors

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the white forflakes of showling up

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village. I see rest, like a csnow are dap and down rning start tog back into tunk and I locandma’s genChristmas is ediently. The fins are sin

 

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with a lot of hand in the t

colorless faace like the lt beautiful yennie played wstrange and

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rting our mathe chocolat

crystal castleancing with

again and a reflect on th

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trunk again.ace, but a walollipop, heret. I like thewith it whenI can hear s

am listening e trunk againan I see? A tystals. I am magic journeyte roofs and fe and the gre

the invisiblagain. But she frozen snoput the horsee padlock. La

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ve fallen in ten leaves. rees in the orared to see snowflakes.

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Our stober night filhits the shormore appromemories. Daside, the atin my diary most comm

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of the year. s that time, t winter story

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was the moste he slept lidreamed his r, a warm anshe said. „Wt was only on

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rst snow-g awaited he chaot-mated by is at this

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Nationa

he torch is sticannot be denng tragic, drastic.

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h's light, him so tight.untless knighty moonlight

e of art,

part dumb.

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my mother ayears old anto watch thesee the Nor

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New Year’s

airbanks, AlaShe just saidthe idea of finally 15, adrop in Time

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we quietly hotel and

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mystery. Afterking for: The

ember night

s family. Alle table, eatiner. Everyone boy observeno snow ou

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