Writing Achievement Awards
State Coordinator: Heather Megarry
Nomination Forms for the 2008 Program must be sent to NCTE by February 1, 2008
Link to more information and judging criteria
To encourage high school students in their writing and to recognize publicly some of the best student writers in the nation, the National Council of Teachers of English will give achievement awards in writing to students nominated and cited as excellent writers by judges. Nominated students submit two pieces of writing: a best writing sample and a response to the contest prompt.
Submissions to this award program are automatically considered for publication in the Minnesota English Journal - Student Writing Issue.
Each high school selects
its own nominee or nominees: one or more juniors agreed upon by the English
department, not chosen by an indivdiual teacher.
The junior nominated must be a candidate for graduation in the following school
year. The number of nominees from each school is based on enrollment of students
in grades 10, 11, and 12.
In selecting these young writers, teachers may want to consider the following guidelines:
* Does the student show depth of thought in the quality and presentation of ideas?
* Even if the thought is relatively commonplace, has the student made the idea his or her own?
* Is the student clear about subject and audience?
* Does the student demonstarte a command of vocabulary and sentence structure?
2007
|
Apple Valley High School, Apple Valley State Coordinator: Heather Megarry, Mendota Heights |
2006
|
Apple Valley High School, Apple Valley State Coordinator: Heather Megarry, Mendota Heights |
2005
|
Jaclyn Rainey, Apple Valley High School |
2004
|
Heidi Campbell, Minnetonka High School Molly Dworsky, Hopkins High School Johanna Fuenning, Rochester John Marshall Sam Gleason, Minnetonka High School Charles Halvorson, St. Paul Academy Rosie Harris, Edina High School Nina Holmberg, Edina High School Nicole Jin, Robbinsdale Armstrong High School Robert Mohr, Champlin Park High School Britta Nicholson, Eastview High School, Apple Valley Henry Reich, Mahtomedi High School Katie Reinan, Apple Valley High School Laura Roehl, Apple Valley High School Alise Smith, Eagan High School Alex Stuart, Hopkins High School Kevin Troy, Eagan High School |
For more
information and to download a .pdf nomination form (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
Nominations are due in late January. Winners are announced the following November.
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