Collecting Memories Contest
Collecting Memories
Take a Stand Club would like to announce a new contest called “Collecting Memories.” In recognition of our visiting author students are asked to interview relatives, neighbors, and community members to collect their special memories. Is your elderly neighbor one of the 80 children from the 15 families that grew up in the Santa Fe Boxcar Camp? Does that gentleman in front of you in Walmart have on a World War II Veteran Cap? Did your grandmother or great grandmother fight for the right to vote? Did your mom have one of those phones that was actually stuck to the wall? Can you find someone that remembers when we landed on the moon or where they were when John F. Kennedy was shot? Ask an adult where they were on 9-11 and what that day was like. Memories may be written, videoed, or tape recorded. Entries must include your name and the name of the person that you collected the memory from and they need to be submitted to Ms. Keith at [email protected] by Spring Break. The student that submits the best memory will win an Adidas bag, a copy of Jack Gantos latest book The Trouble in Me, and invited to attend the author luncheon on April 19th where they will be able to meet and talk to Jack Gantos, author of Dead End in Norvelt. Start collecting those memories.
Take a Stand Club would like to announce a new contest called “Collecting Memories.” In recognition of our visiting author students are asked to interview relatives, neighbors, and community members to collect their special memories. Is your elderly neighbor one of the 80 children from the 15 families that grew up in the Santa Fe Boxcar Camp? Does that gentleman in front of you in Walmart have on a World War II Veteran Cap? Did your grandmother or great grandmother fight for the right to vote? Did your mom have one of those phones that was actually stuck to the wall? Can you find someone that remembers when we landed on the moon or where they were when John F. Kennedy was shot? Ask an adult where they were on 9-11 and what that day was like. Memories may be written, videoed, or tape recorded. Entries must include your name and the name of the person that you collected the memory from and they need to be submitted to Ms. Keith at [email protected] by Spring Break. The student that submits the best memory will win an Adidas bag, a copy of Jack Gantos latest book The Trouble in Me, and invited to attend the author luncheon on April 19th where they will be able to meet and talk to Jack Gantos, author of Dead End in Norvelt. Start collecting those memories.