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"Live Deliberately” Essay Contest
Free E-Book through Sylvan Dell Publishing
The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers
The Philadelphia Writing Project
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Free E-Book through
Sylvan Dell Publishing
Pandas’ Earthquake Escape helps children understand the disaster in
Chile, and its eBook is now available free on our homepage:
www.SylvanDellPublishing.com
Mount Pleasant, SC (March 1, 2010) – To help parents and teachers
explain this tragedy to their children, Sylvan Dell has posted our
Pandas’ Earthquake Escape eBook on our homepage free for the next 30
days. Our hearts go out to those suffering in Chile and in Haiti, and we
hope having access to this e-book will help children understand the
shifting plates and dynamic earth forces at work. We are proponents of
using teaching moments, even tragic ones, to optimize learning. Listen
to the news, read the picture book, use the 6-page non-fiction
educational section in the back of the book, and then use the 50-page
cross-curricular Teaching Activities section online.
Pandas’ Earthquake Escape written by Phyllis Perry and with stunning
illustrations by Susan Detwiler follows the adventures of a mother
panda, LiLing, and her cub, Tengfei, for several days after the
devastating earthquake that hit China two years ago. Perry’s story
follows the two pandas’ quest to survive outside the comfort of their
reserve.
The eBook features read-aloud, auto page flip, and selectable English
and Spanish text and audio. This title is also available in hardcover
and paperback. We hope this book is enjoyed and helps children
understand world events around them.
Click
here to View e-Book
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The Walden Woods Project’s Thoreau Institute is accepting submissions for the 1st annual Live Deliberately Essay Contest. Students are asked to consider what their own deliberate lives look and feel like. Winners will be featured on the World Wide Waldens website, and will receive a signed copy of Walden from the Thoreau Institute.
Submission due date: March 31st, 2010.
To submit essays and read contest guidelines, visit www.worldwidewaldens.org .
Click here for the flyer
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The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers
The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers
recognizes outstanding young poets and is open to high school sophomores
and juniors throughout the world. The contest winner receives a full
scholarship to the
Kenyon Review Young Writers workshop. In addition, the winning poem
will be published in The Kenyon Review. The second and third place
winners will also see their poems published.
The contest is named in honor of Patricia Grodd in recognition of her
generous support of The Kenyon Review and its programs, as well as her
passionate commitment to education and deep love for poetry.
The final judge of the contest is KR poetry editor David Baker.
Click here
to find more information on this contest.
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The
Philadelphia Writing Project
The Philadelphia Arts in Education Partnership
(PAEP) and the Philadelphia Writing Project have been appointed the
Alliance for Young Artists and Writers’ regional affiliate for
southeastern Pennsylvania including the counties of Bucks, Chester,
Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia.
As the regional affiliate, PAEP and The Philadelphia Writing Project
will administer the Scholastic Art and Writing Contest. All students
from grades 7-12 are eligible to submit an entry or portfolio in art or
writing or both. Submission guidelines are posted on the Alliance for
Young Artists and Writers’ Website,
www.artandwriting.org.
Online registration is required for all students except seventh grade
students, who can be registered through each representative
organization. Teachers may also register enabling them to manage their
students’ registration and submissions as well.
Click here
for more information on this project.