| You can win a Great Certificate (which will look good on your college application) and probably some other Great Prize that I am going to ask my Mom to donate. Plus which you might be able to use this for some kind of homework, too and get brownie points for that. |
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Why I find libraries boring. (Use irony and satire!) |
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Adventures of LC, the Library Cat . |
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Five Really Good Reasons Why My Classroom Library is Important. |
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Five Good Books I want to donate to my ___ Grade Classroom and Why. |
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Some Interesting Facts comparing and contrasting Famous Libraries before 19OO's. (Your get 10 extra points for doing this one. There's interesting stuff on my website in the Lesson Plan.
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How I can make my classroom library better. |
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The Actual Facts as to Why the ""Alien"" organized our classroom library that way. (Nothing resembling actual facts can be used in this essay. Lots of detail is important.) |
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Some Category chosen by your Mom or your teacher (include their phone number so I can verify.) |
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Deadline: Date and Rules to be announced January 1, 2OO8.
Must be sent to me via email at: happybirthdaybookfoundation@gmail.com, anytime during the year. Please remember to put your name and email address on your entry. You may send it as a word attachment. Any entries make in the month of December lose 2 points for waiting until the last minute. You can make your essay as long or as short as you want, just remember I'm in the 12th grade. All entries become the property of me and/or the Happy Birthday Book Foundation and/or assigns.
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Next year's contest will be to design new BookPlates, and the year after will be to design new BookMarks. Be prepared. |
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Criterion for Judging |
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Creativity. |
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Not Boring. |
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Use of Actual Facts (or not, as the case may be) and detail. |
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Use of Humor. |
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Use of SpellCheck. |
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Remembering to put your name, address, phone and email on the first page. |
