Year 2007 Fourth National CLASS Essay Contest

全 美 中 小 學 中 文 教 師 協 會舉 辦 第 四 屆 學 生 作 文 比 賽 

 Fourth National CLASS Essay Contest

Essay topic: 

The topics of this year’s essay contest reflect the ACTFL 2007 theme: Connecting Languages and Cultures. Please encourage students to write about personal multilingual and multicultural experiences and incidents in narrative form.

 

For 9^th to 12^th grades:

不同言語   同樣情意

                             ― 記語言文化融合的趣聞樂事 

For K to 8^th grades

                        小小外交家的見聞    

 

Deadline:  

All entries must be postmarked no later than Oct. 1, 2007.

Please sent your students entries (one hard copy and the electronic file) to

The CLASS Essay Contest Committee Chair, Haiyan Fu

Northside College Preparatory High School

5501 N. Kedzie Avenue, Chicago IL 60625

Haiyan830@gmail.com

Rules: 

1.       Each entry must be an original independent work of a current student of Chinese language at K-12 schools whose teacher is currently a CLASS member in good standing.

2.       The category and division of participating students must be clearly marked on the entry form.  Categories: Beginner (B), Intermediate (I), Advanced (A), and Native Speaker (N); Divisions:  K-4, 5-8 and 9-12.

3.       Submissions are restricted to two entries per category, per teacher.  For example, if a teacher teaches one beginning and one upper level class, she/he can submit up to 4 entries.

4.       Teachers must submit completed entry forms with their entries in addition to putting the requested information on the back of each essay.

5.     Essays may be hand-written or word-processed; either traditional or simplified characters are accepted.  For the K-4 division, essays written in pinyin mixed with characters will be accepted.  However, entries from students in grades 9^th to 12^th must use word processing and send in both the hard copy and an electronic file of their essays.  Their Chinese teachers can send electronic files as attachments or in a CD format of entries to the chair of the CLASS Essay Contest Committee.

6.     Each entry must have identification typed or printed legibly on the back side of the essay only.  No identification marks are allowed on the face of the essay.

7.       Essay length by category:

a.       Beginner:               100-300 words

b.       Intermediate:       300-500 words

c.        Advanced:            500-1000 words

Native speakers may follow the lengths of these categories depending upon their levels of proficiency.

8.       All entries upon submission become the property of CLASS. The winner’s essay entries might be posted on the CLASS website but only with the school name and grade level information.

 

Writing Samples:

Sample student work from 5-8 winners:    Sample Essay

Sample student work from 9-12 winners:   Sample Essay

Application Entry Form: 

Please download the application form from here:   Application Form