First: The objective of the Story competition about Worldwide Educational Technology organized by NABSS and sponsored by LENOVO is to reward the best entries related to this subject, in compliance with the following rules.
Second: All Primary pupils from Year 3 to Year 6 in NABSS schools may participate. Their competition entry must be entitled “I Love Technology, do you?” in English and the theme must be related to the advantages of New Technologies in the field of Education. Pupils may relate present or future events in their stories.
Third: Entrants can submit one story only in compliance with the competition rules. The stories must be typed on a double sided A4 piece of paper. Entries must show the pupil’s name, school and year group, and must be enclosed in a sealed envelope clearly indicating the school’s name on the cover.
Fourth: The competition will take place from the beginning of January until 20th February. All entries must be sent to NABSS (Calle Ferraz 85, 28008 Madrid) by the end of February. Any entries received after the deadline date will not be accepted. The postmark date on the envelope will be used as a reference for the date of entry.
Fifth: During the month of March, a board of members from the NABSS Executive Committee and other Educational institutions such as the British Council, the British Embassy, and a representative of the sponsoring company LENOVO-SPAIN will shortlist the entries. Subsequently a board of judges will designate the prize winners and notify their schools as well as all other participants. There will be only one category in the competition; therefore first and second prizes will be awarded to stories that reflect Originality and Innovation.
Sixth: By entering the competition, participants grant the Organization the unrestricted right of reproduction, distribution and use of any means that the Organization considers appropriate, such as newspapers, magazines, Facebook, NABSS/LENOVO websites or other similar media, always clearly mentioning the authors name.
Seventh: All prizes awarded to the winners will be LENOVO brand products (2 TABLETS). These prizes will be given at the place and date indicated. The prize-giving ceremony will take place in March 2015 at the Cocktail party that will be held during the NABSS national congress in Málaga.
Eighth: The judges’ decisions will be made by vote of the majority and will be final.
Ninth: The Organization reserves the right to amend these rules where it is deemed necessary to do so. The competition rules and any possible modifications will be published via any means selected by the Organization.
By entering the competition, pupils agree to accept the established rules and declare that the Organization’s use of their story in accordance with the competition rules in no way damages the rights of third parties.
HOW CAN I HELP YOU?
Every Friday until we finish the stories, the Little Red Book activity will become electronic. You will have to send me by e-mail, or bring in pen-drive your story.
During the weekend I will correct spelling and grammar.
I will also add a comment where I state my opinion on the good and bad bits. By no means I will suggest writing to you, or write any lines on your work.
SOME THINGS TO REMEMBER:
1 STRUCTURE: parts of a story.
Stories normally have 5 different parts.
I.
The INTRODUCTION
-Presentation of main characters (The WHO). The main characters appear. The narrator will describe them, or we will see what they are like by their actions, by what they say or how they talk... One way or the other the reader is introduced to who will be the most important characters in the story.
-The settings (The WHERE and the WHEN). The narrator tells us about where this story takes place: is it here in Madrid, is it in USA...? Is it a rich family in a wonderful house, is it a poor family in the slumbs of India...?
The narrator also tells us about the times of where the story takes place: Is it now, the future or the present. is it a specific context (situation) like the Second World War, the 1920s ...?
II
The BUILD-UP
The problem appears for the first time: is it that the boy enters a new school and he meets a strange teacher, is it that something magical happens to him on a normal Monday morning...?
Next to the problem we have the enemy, the baddie of the story.
Here we see the first reactions and effects on the life of the main characters.
III
The DILEMMA
The problem, the conflict, that started in II gets more and more intense. The main characters are immersed in the adventure. The reader is tense, worried. All the action happens here: the fights, the escaping, the dangers... The main character are doomed! It´s the end!
IV
The RESOLUTION
The main characters confront their destiny. The best of their personality comes into action: the have an intelligent, brave response to the problem. They reader feels lots of emotions here. "Yes", the reader says, "you can do it, come on!".
The resolution finishes with THE END of the story, that can be:
-Happy ending (reader cheers)
-Sad ending (reader cries)
-Surprise ending (reader shouts "What!")
-Looped ending (The end takes us back to the beginning)
-Open Ending (The end remains mysterious, so each reader will have a different opinion of what this end is)
V
CONCLUSION
A final paragraph for the reader. The story has finished but the writer still wants to add something else, for example:
An this is the end of our story. Maria married Justin Beaver, and they had 24 children and lived happily ever after. Ana became a famous vintriloquist, and travelled the world. Carlota won the Boxing World Championship. Juanjo decided to sell his collection of Ferraris and give the money to end the hunger in Africa. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020....
2. THEME and MESSAGE
Theme. All stories develope a main topic (or several) that normally are one of the next:-TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION
-Friendship
-Love and Romance
-Bravery or Intelligence
-Honour or Duty
-Comedy (making the reader laugh)
-Violence and Fatality
...
This is the element that moves the story in one direction or the other.
Sometimes we can heve several in the same story.
Next to the theme we might have the message. This happens when the writer wants to "teach" the reader.
In Little Red Riding Hood the we learn not to disobey and follow the path.
In Mathilda, and in Peter and the Wolf we learn not to lie.
3. TYPES of STORIES
Stories can be classified in different families:-Adventure and Action. The reader is transported to worlds full of dangers. There is alot of action, of fights.
-Mystery and Horror. The reader is transported to a world where things happen in a sort of magical (non-logical) world.
The writer will create a feeling of wonder in the reader if it is a Mystery Story.
The writer will try to scare the reader if it´s a Horror Story.
-Sci-Fi. Science-Fiction stories are normally set in a future of super technology. Robots, space-ships, cyborgs, etc are key elements.
-Detective stories. A crime has been comitted, and an intelligent detective must use his super reasoning skills to solve it.
-Comedy. Any excuse is valid to make the reader laugh. If the reader laughs you win.
-Tragedy- Any excuse is valid to make the reader cry. If the reader cries you win.
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