Scholastic & People to People: Perfect Together Summer Writing Opportunity June 2012
Dear 6B students & parents/guardians, First of all, happy summer! Enjoy your time off from all the hard work you put into your first real year as a middle school student at Park! As you unpack all of the locker “treasures” you brought home yesterday, I want to let you know of this incredible writing contest! How does a two week, all expenses paid trip to Europe sound to you? Well, Scholastic and People to People have partnered to create this amazing contest. Now, don’t panic! It’s not required, but I would give anything to have the chance to enter this contest! However, it is only for 5th – 8th graders so I’m disqualified. On the other hand, I would love to be your partner in this adventure! If you choose to tackle this opportunity, I will gladly be your editor to help you hone the skills we have developed all year and craft a winning entry! Here are the basics. Scholastic has developed a writing prompt based on their popular series, The 39 Clues. If you haven’t read the books, no worries; it’s not required(although I think they are easy & fun summer adventure reads!). The prompt is on the back of this paper with the official rules. The best part (thinking like a student who just finished school!) is that your response has to be 200 words or less!(Up to this point in this letter, I am over 230 words already!)The final draft does not have to be mailed to Scholastic until November 26, 2012 so we have all summer to correspond via email & perfect your entry! Once September comes, it’ll be much more difficult for me to work with you since I’ll be immersed in my new role, as will you as 7th graders, so I’m hoping many of you take advantage of this over the summer! My email and links to the contest pages are listed below. You CAN DO this! Just remember to bring me back a fabulous souvenir when you win!
Summer Writing Opportunity
June 2012
Dear 6B students & parents/guardians,
First of all, happy summer! Enjoy your time off from all the hard work you put into your first real year as a middle school student at Park!
As you unpack all of the locker “treasures” you brought home yesterday, I want to let you know of this incredible writing contest! How does a two week, all expenses paid trip to Europe sound to you? Well, Scholastic and People to People have partnered to create this amazing contest.
Now, don’t panic! It’s not required, but I would give anything to have the chance to enter this contest! However, it is only for 5th – 8th graders so I’m disqualified. On the other hand, I would love to be your partner in this adventure! If you choose to tackle this opportunity, I will gladly be your editor to help you hone the skills we have developed all year and craft a winning entry!
Here are the basics. Scholastic has developed a writing prompt based on their popular series, The 39 Clues. If you haven’t read the books, no worries; it’s not required(although I think they are easy & fun summer adventure reads!). The prompt is on the back of this paper with the official rules. The best part (thinking like a student who just finished school!) is that your response has to be 200 words or less!(Up to this point in this letter, I am over 230 words already!)The final draft does not have to be mailed to Scholastic until November 26, 2012 so we have all summer to correspond via email & perfect your entry!
Once September comes, it’ll be much more difficult for me to work with you since I’ll be immersed in my new role, as will you as 7th graders, so I’m hoping many of you take advantage of this over the summer!
My email and links to the contest pages are listed below. You CAN DO this! Just remember to bring me back a fabulous souvenir when you win!
Keep on Writing!
Mrs. Carvajal
bcarvajal@spfk12.org or carvajalbr@yahoo.com
http://www.scholastic.com/peopletopeople/
http://www.scholastic.com/peopletopeople/rules.htm