The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, in partnership with Target Stores and in cooperation with affiliate state centers for the book, invites readers in grades 4 through 12 to enter Letters About Literature, a national reading-writing contest. To enter, readers write a personal letter to an author, living or dead, from any genre-- fiction or nonfiction, contemporary or classic, explaining how that author's work changed the student's way of thinking about the world or themselves. There are three competition levels: Level I for children in grades 4 through 6; Level II for grades 7 and 8, and Level III, grades 9 - 12. Winners, announced in the spring of each year, receive cash awards at the national and state levels. (http://www.loc.gov/loc/cfbook/letters.html )
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I think that the best way to use the laptops in class is for researching topics or typing up papers. Using the Internet is a much faster and more efficient way than researching in an old, out-dated book. Typing up papers on the laptops is a great idea because the papers are neat and readable, and they are error-free because of spell check. Teachers will have a much easier time reading and grading papers. I think that it would be easier to take class notes on paper because then we will always have them with us whenever we need to refer to them. We aren’t always at a computer so we might not be able to log on and get what we need.
ReplyDeleteTeachers should be strict with the laptops because they are expensive. I think that the best way to know who may have caused damage to a laptop is to assign each student a laptop, and at the end of class the teacher should go around and make sure that all the laptops are still in good shape.
Heather- Period 7