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DaggerQuill
Since: Sep, 2016
I remember watching two different videos in elementary school, around the late 90's/early 2000's. The first one was about a group of kids who had a clubhouse with a computer and a hatrack with their names on it where they hung their hats (they each had different styles of hats; a newbie cap, a jester's hat, a viking helmet, etc.) I remember that their club was called the _____ Club or the _____ Kids or something like that. Each episode would have one of them encountering a problem and then using some sort of english concept to fix it: I remember one boy had to write a story about something that happened to him using similes, metaphors, and hyperbole; a girl named Trax wrote stories about the rest of the club to show different genres (myth, fantasy, scifi, realistic fiction); and a girl writes poems using personification, which brings the objects she's writing about to life. I remember that one of the kids was African American and named Gator and another girl was a brunette named Tracks/Trax.
The other videos were about a group of kids in a room (almost like a hotel room/office?) who were working on a newspaper or something like that. I remember a kid (I think his name was Sam) coming into the room groaning and flops down on a couch; the other kids come over to him and are surprised that his messenger bag isn't full of ideas like usual. A girl narrates the situation. The kids consult Ms. Grammar, a woman on a computer (like she was skyping them, except that this was the 90s), for ideas. She teaches them about adjectives and suffixes, like green, greener, greenest, as the kids make frosting with green food coloring.
Does anyone have any idea what these two videos are? They're VHS tapes but i'm not sure what the tapes looked like.