She passed this invitation along. It sounds like an interesting =
persuasive writing project. Please read more if you are interested or =
pass it along to someone who might be. Details are below...
Thanks,
~Jayme
Jayme Johnson
Director of Academic Technology=20
Village School
Pacific Palisades, CA
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Subject: Invitation to participate: a Google & NWP sponsored writing =
project
Hi GCTs,
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Google and the National Writing Project (NWP) invite GCTs to
participate in Letters to the Next President: Writing Our Future, a
writing and publishing opportunity for students during the period of
the presidential campaign. Letters to the Next President aims to
illuminate the ideas and visions of young people across the nation and
will demonstrate that they *can* and *do* express themselves in
writing.
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With the support of their teachers, students will write a persuasive
letter to our two presidential candidates about the issues they care
about and are relevant to their lives (in Google Docs). Topics will be
chosen by the students themselves to reflect their specific regional
and age-related interests. Google Docs will allow teachers to
incorporate peer review, revisions, and publishing into support of the
student letters. Participating students will publish their letters
online to a Letters to the Next President website for their peers,
parents, and the public to read.
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The registration deadline for teachers is Sept 8, 2008. The project
will conclude on Oct. 30, just before the Presidential election.
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Learn more at http://www.nwp.org/r/letters2president
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Request for your help: I'm trying to "get the word out" about this
project to relevant teachers. If you know of any particular online
groups, bloggers, associations, or social networks who may be
interested in participating or helping to promote this project, please
let me know.
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Thank you,
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Andrew Chang
andrewchang@google.com
Marketing Manager
Google Docs
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