Hello everyone and Happy New Year! The Lance is starting off the year with a challenge for the Mercy community: a prompt from Ms. Yanson herself.

Prompt: The following words have multiple definitions and uses. Choose one and look it up. Identify phrases, idioms, homonyms, and clichés containing it. Make a poem or prose poem that uses many of the meanings.

Run, Take, Break, Turn, Set, Go, Play, Up, Hand, Hold, Light, Clear, Draw, Right, Check, Beat, Call, Fall, Pass, Charge, Catch, Open, Make, Cover, Point

We are excited to see what you all come up with! Please email your submissions to me, Maggie Burnham, or Ms. Yanson.