2014 FLAND Essay theme:
“Don’t Let Learning a Language Slip Through Your Fingers!”
Write a short essay telling why you think it is important to learn a foreign language.
Contest Rules:
- The essay is to be written in English.
- It must be typed, double-spaced and no more than 300 words in length.
- The student should set the margins and font to fit the essay onto one page.
- The essay must have a cover page that contains the student’s name, grade, school, and language teacher’s full name. This information should not be on the essay itself.
- The essays will be judged using the following criteria:
- USE OF THEME,
- development of ideas,
- originality, organization,
- word choice,
- vocabulary, grammar and mechanics.
- Students will be divided into two divisions according to their grades.
- Division I: 8/9th and 10th graders.
- Division II: 11th and 12th graders.
Use your full name as the filename for your essay when you save it.
(Save it as: firstname lastname.doc)
Submit your essay as a Microsoft Word document using the upload feature on herrmick.com!
Three cash prizes will be awarded in each division:
1st place — $25
2nd place –$15
3rd place — $10
UPLOAD ESSAY HERE:
THE UPLOAD FEATURE IS SLIGHTLY SLOW. BE PATIENT. DON’T UPLOAD MULTIPLE TIMES UNLESS YOU NEED TO.
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