Posted by theunquietlibrary on February 3, 2008
It is February, and that means it is time for the 2nd Annual Unquiet Library “I Love Reading” contest! Here is how it works:
1. Every time you come to the library in February 2008, complete a pink slip entry form for each book you are checking out.
2. Give the pink slip(s) to Mrs. Hamilton, Mrs. Fleet, or Mrs. Beasley
3. We will enter your pink slip(s) in the grand drawing to be held on Monday, March 3, which is also Read Across America Day!
4. You may enter every time you check out a new book to read.
We will be giving away four $25 Barnes and Noble gift cards as well as a grand prize of a $50 Barnes and Noble gift card! We have just received two new orders of books, nonfiction and fiction, so come on by to get some great books and to be entered in this fantastic drawing!
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Posted by theunquietlibrary on January 23, 2008
We just found out about this exciting opportunity for our students and clubs at Readergirlz.com. This would be a WONDERFUL class project, club project, or individual project for Creekview students!
Community Challenge: Go Overboard Challenge Grant
This month we’re challenging readergirlz to Go Overboard with an idea to make a difference — and win a Go Overboard Challenge Grant to put your plan into action.
Burton Snowboards and award-winning author / readergirlz co-founder Justina Chen Headley are co-sponsoring the Go Overboard Challenge Grant with Youth Venture to fund the best youth-led ideas to change the world.
Commit to a cause you’re already passionate about - whether it’s saving the environment, ending world hunger, or protecting endangered species. With the help of local Vermont maple syrup makers (Green Mountain Sugar House), Olympic Gold medalist Hannah Teter bottles Hannah’s Gold to earn money for AIDS orphans in Africa. Justina co-founded readergirlz - our online book community - to promote literacy in teen girls. Syrah in Justina’s novel Girl Overboard spearheaded a huge snowboarding event to raise awareness for cancer. So think about a problem and figure out a solution!
Then tell us how you, your club, your team, or your entire school will Go Overboard by:
* forming a team (two or more persons) and filling out an action plan
* proposing a new sustainable organization (venture) to address a problem you have identified in your school, neighborhood, community, the world!
The best ideas will win one of 12 grants, each worth $1000, to help them realize their vision.
To learn more about the Go Overboard Challenge Grant, click here.
The rest of the divas want to thank Justina for making Syrah such an inspirational character in Girl Overboard and for working so hard on this grant opportunity with Burton Snowboards, Youth Venture, and Hannah Teter. You’re always right out there in front with a giving spirit.
Our challenge to all you readergirlz: Go Overboard with an idea now. May the best reach-out readergirl win a Go Overboard Grant!
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Posted by theunquietlibrary on December 20, 2007
The international system has witnessed dramatic changes in the recent past. Developments around the globe and at home challenge us to rethink the role of the United States in the international community. What is our nation’s place in this increasingly complex global picture? How do we best promote respect for human rights and the growth of freedom and justice? What can we do to nurture and preserve international security and world peace?
The National Peace Essay Contest:
- Promotes serious discussion among high school students, teachers, and national leaders about international peace and conflict resolution today and in the future;
- Complements existing curricula and other scholastic activities;
- Strengthens students’ research, writing, and reasoning skills; and
- Meets National Contents Standards.
The deadline for the 2007-2008 National Peace Essay Contest is February 1, 2008.
Resources:
Visit http://www.usip.org/ed/npec/ for more details!
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Posted by theunquietlibrary on November 9, 2007
The Bill of Rights Institute is now taking submissions for the second annual Being an American Essay Contest. To learn more about the contest, download the contest packet here. The top three winners and their teachers from each region will receive a cash prize of $5,000. The second and third place winners and their teachers from each region will receive prizes of $2,500 and $1,250 respectively. WOW!
For more information, resources, and helpful hints on writing an award-winning essay, go to http://www.beinganamerican.org/index.html and click on the “For Students” links at the top of the page. You may submit your entry to any English or Social Studies teacher; you may also submit entries to Mrs. Hamilton and Mrs. Fleet in the library. Entries should be submitted to teachers by Friday, November 30 so that your teacher has time to upload the entries by the national deadline. Thanks!
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Posted by theunquietlibrary on October 23, 2007
$100,000 for college tuition
Grant Title: National Vocabulary Championship
Organization: GSN
Eligibility: High school students
Value: Study resources and $100,000
Deadline: November 30, 2007The National Vocabulary Championship promotes the value of an enhanced vocabulary to teens across the country by providing free Princeton Review study resources and holding live game show-style events that award college-bound students more than $100,000 in money toward tuition. High school students should visit NVC’s web site to take the qualifying exam.
Contact: http://www.winwithwords.com
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Posted by theunquietlibrary on October 8, 2007
National PTA Reflections Program
National PTA believes all children deserve a quality arts education and encourages students to pursue artistic expression through participation in its annual arts Reflections Program. The program offers students the opportunity to create works of art for fun and recognition. Students in preschool through grade 12 are encouraged to create and submit works of art in one or more of six areas: literature, musical composition, photography, visual arts (which includes art forms such as drawing, painting, print making, and collage), dance choreography and film/video production. In its more than 30-year history, the program has encouraged millions of students across the nation and in American schools overseas to create works of art.
Visit National PTA’s 2006-2007 Reflections Gallery - Georgia won four of the six Outstanding Interpretation awards.Students participate in the Reflections Program by submitting entries to their local PTA or PTSA. Any PTA/PTSA in good standing is eligible to sponsor a Reflections Program. For more information, go to http://www.georgiapta.org/resources-student-reflections.html .
2007-2008 Reflections Information and Forms
All entries must be submitted to Mrs. Fleet or Mrs. Hamilton in the library by 3:30 on October 31.
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Posted by theunquietlibrary on October 4, 2007
Do you love reading? Check out the Letters About Literature Contest!
To enter, entrants must write a personal letter to an author, explaining how his or her work changed their view of the world or themselves. Students can select authors from any genre—fiction or nonfiction, contemporary, or classic. Sponsored by the Library or Congress’s Center for the Book and Target Stores, the reading and writing competition is open to kids in grades four through 12.
Judges representing each state will select the top essayists in three competition levels: Level I for readers in grades four through six; Level II for readers in grades seven and eight; and Level III for readers in grades nine through 12. Entries will be assessed according to three criteria: the writer’s ability to address the content theme, language skill, and style and originality.
State winners will receive a $50 Target gift card and will advance to the national competition. A panel of judges from the Center for the Book will select six national winners (two per competition level) and 12 national runners-up (four per competition level).
Each national winner will receive a $500 Target gift card and a Reading Promotion Grant of $10,000 for their school or community library—and have say in how the library funds will be spent. Each national runner-up will receive a $100 Target gift card and a Reading Promotion Grant of $1,000 for his or her school or community library.
The deadline for entries for the contest is December 14. To obtain a required entry coupon and a copy of “how to enter” guidelines, participants can visit the Letters About Literature Web site at www.loc.gov/letters or contact the national program director at lal@epix.net.
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Posted by theunquietlibrary on October 3, 2007
Grant Title: National Vocabulary Championship
Organization: GSN
Eligibility: High school students
Value: Study resources and $100,000
Deadline: November 30, 2007 The National Vocabulary Championship promotes the value of an enhanced vocabulary to teens across the country by providing free Princeton Review study resources and holding live game show-style events that award college-bound students more than $100,000 in money toward tuition. High school students should visit NVC’s web site to take the qualifying exam.
Contact: http://www.winwithwords.com
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