Unity Day Motto Contest! The Sagamore Guidance Department is asking you to design your school motto! There will be one winning motto and it will be displayed on the board outside! Your motto should represent UNITY and how Sagamore represents kindness and acceptance!
Suggested Length: 1 - 3 sentences. Due Friday, Oct. 25.
Suggested Length: 1 - 3 sentences. Due Friday, Oct. 25.
Young Writers, USA Writing Contest - Mission: Contamination
Deadline: October 25.
Watch the Survival Sagas: Mission Contamination video! https://youtu.be/oVzqrAojPOk
View the instructional PPT:
file:///C:/Users/genno/Downloads/Mission-Contamination_YW-Mission-Contamination-Powerpoint.pdf
Write your own mini saga. (100 words or less) Your work can be inspired by the story starter sentence or you can include it in your mini saga. You are welcome to use your own ideas or be inspired by any of the ideas we’ve provided as you wish… Did we mention that we love originality!?
Here are some sample sentence starters and story ideas:
• The rash was spreading, pulsing, hurting…
• The giant, poisonous cloud rose into the sky...
• The last drop fell into the test tube…
• “It’s okay boy, it’s me…” Growl…
• Something scuttled under my skin…
• "Test subject A is unaccounted for...”
• The cure had to be here somewhere...
• We finally emerged from the underground bunker...
Deadline: October 25.
Watch the Survival Sagas: Mission Contamination video! https://youtu.be/oVzqrAojPOk
View the instructional PPT:
file:///C:/Users/genno/Downloads/Mission-Contamination_YW-Mission-Contamination-Powerpoint.pdf
Write your own mini saga. (100 words or less) Your work can be inspired by the story starter sentence or you can include it in your mini saga. You are welcome to use your own ideas or be inspired by any of the ideas we’ve provided as you wish… Did we mention that we love originality!?
Here are some sample sentence starters and story ideas:
• The rash was spreading, pulsing, hurting…
• The giant, poisonous cloud rose into the sky...
• The last drop fell into the test tube…
• “It’s okay boy, it’s me…” Growl…
• Something scuttled under my skin…
• "Test subject A is unaccounted for...”
• The cure had to be here somewhere...
• We finally emerged from the underground bunker...

Enter the Lost in Space contest!
Deadline is Oct. 4.
Lost in Space
Grades: Middle School (6-8)
Subject Area: Language Arts, Science
Made Possible By: Legendary Television
Take your students on an exciting science fiction writing adventure as they join the Robinson family in Lost in Space. Season 1 is streaming now on Netflix and Season 2 will launch later this year. Have your students enter the Lost in Space Science Fiction Contest for a chance to attend the Season 2 premiere at the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum with a parent/guardian and the teacher who submits the winning entry.
http://ymiclassroom.com/lesson-plans/lost-in-space/
Deadline is Oct. 4.
Lost in Space
Grades: Middle School (6-8)
Subject Area: Language Arts, Science
Made Possible By: Legendary Television
Take your students on an exciting science fiction writing adventure as they join the Robinson family in Lost in Space. Season 1 is streaming now on Netflix and Season 2 will launch later this year. Have your students enter the Lost in Space Science Fiction Contest for a chance to attend the Season 2 premiere at the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum with a parent/guardian and the teacher who submits the winning entry.
http://ymiclassroom.com/lesson-plans/lost-in-space/