"Stories in my life".Instructor's 3rd Annual Student Poetry Contest When students write from the heart and share insights, observations, and memories that matter to them, powerful poetry can result. Instructor Magazine invites your students to share their stories through poetry--stories from daily life, family history, or our of their own imaginations. Winning poems from grades K-3 and 4-8 will be published in Instructor's April 2002 issue and on our Web site, for students and teachers around the country to enjoy. Help Your Students Write Original Poetry Your students may interpret the poetry contest theme in many different ways. They can recall favorite stories told by a grandparent, an adventure with a friend on a summer day, or the ups and downs ups and downs pl.n. Alternating periods of good and bad fortune or spirits. ups and downs Noun, pl alternating periods of good and bad luck or high and low spirits of a family vacation VACATION. That period of time between the end of one term and beginning of another. During vacation, rules and orders are made in such cases as are urgent, by a judge at his chambers. . Some possible prompts to share are: My First Memories, Things My Grandpa Told Me, When We Moved to This Country, My First Day of School/Camp, My Birthday. For older students: A Story I Will Tell My Children, A Day I Will Never Forget, My Future, When My Mom/Dad Was My Age. Encourage your students to develop their own poetry topics--ones that reflect what is important to them. Talk to your students about the importance of taking pride in their own words and ideas, and avoiding plagiarism Using ideas, plots, text and other intellectual property developed by someone else while claiming it is your original work. . How to Enter * Each poem must be the original work of a student in grades K-8. (Only one poem per child, please.) * Poems may be of any length, and in any style. Each poem must have a title. Staple a completed copy of the form below to each poem you submit. * Mail poems and entry forms by January January: see month. 15, 2002 to Poetry Contest, Instructor Magazine, Scholastic Inc., 555 Broadway Broadway, famous thoroughfare in New York City. It extends from Bowling Green near the foot of Manhattan island N to 262d St. in the Bronx. Throughout its length Broadway is chiefly a commercial street. , New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of NY 10012 * Entries will be judged on the basis of originality o·rig·i·nal·i·ty n. pl. o·rig·i·nal·i·ties 1. The quality of being original. 2. The capacity to act or think independently. 3. Something original. Noun 1. , creativity, and artistic quality. Winning poems and runners-up will be chosen for each of two age groups, K-3 and 4-8, and will be featured in our April 2002 issue and on our Web site. Winners will each receive a $50 gift certificate for Scholastic products. Runners-up will each receive a $10 gift certificate. |
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