Educators, Attached you will find information about OWP's Spring Student Conferences. OWP will host "The Amazing Writing Race" at the OKC zoo on March 26, 2014 OWP will host a "Spring Writing Celebration for Secondary Students" at the OCU Campus on March 27, 2014. All conference registrations may be accessed on the OWP Website under the Teacher Tab. Let me know if you have questions, Audra “The AmazingWriting Race” 2014 Spring Writing Marathon for Students and Teachers Wednesday, March 26, 2014 Oklahoma City Zoo The Oklahoma Writing Project invites you to attend “The Amazing Writing Race.” This year participants will experience the animals through various writing activities and listening to zoo specialists. Each teacher may bring 5 students per adult, all grades, K-6. Parents and student teachers are welcome, too. Spaces are limited please register today! Students and teachers will be challenged to write narrative, opinion or informative pieces while racing around the zoo looking for writing prompts. All writing activities will be aligned to Common Core State Standards. Oklahoma Writing Project Teacher Consultants will be placed at each writing challenge checkpoint to guide participants. Teachers will accompany their students as they race around the zoo attempting to complete all writing prompts. Deadline March 10, 2014 Teachers $20* Parents/Students, $15* *Includes Zoo Admission Mail registration (below) to: Audra Plummer, OWP Co-Director 28784 ECR 1560 Pauls Valley, OK 73075 Questions: Phone (405) 401-1348 Email: [log in to unmask] Fax Registration: 405-325-7841 Schedule: 8:45 Check-In at OKC Zoo Education Building 9:00-9:30 The Amazing Writing Race Begins 9:30-Noon Complete Writing Challenges Noon-1:00 Lunch on your own 1:00-2:00 Read Around for Teachers and Students Teachers will receive a map with directions to the Oklahoma City Zoo and other information by March 24, 2014. Please be sure to include best contact email on registration form. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2014 Spring Celebration of Writing for Students and Teachers Thursday, March 27, 2014 University Center Great Hall, Oklahoma City University Featured Author: Sonia Gensler is the author of The Revenant, winner of the Oklahoma Book Award, a Parents’ Choice Silver Award, and featured on the Sequoyah Intermediate Master list. The Dark Between, her latest “lively Victorian mystery” (Kirkus), received praise for its “blending of the empirical and the ethereal” (School Library Journal) and “engaging, page-turning plot" (Examiner.com). Sonia grew up in a small Tennessee town and spent her early adulthood collecting impractical degrees from various Midwestern universities. A former high school English teacher, she now writes full time in Oklahoma. Learn more at www.soniagensler.com. Gensler will sell her autographed books on day of event. Paperback The Revenant $10; Hardback The Dark Between $15. Cash/Checks only payable to Sonia Gensler. Deadline March 12, 2014 Teachers, $15 Students, $10 Register online at: http://owp.ou.edu Under Teacher Tab Or Mail registration (below) to: Audra Plummer, OWP Co-Director 28784 ECR 1560, Pauls Valley, OK 73075 Questions: Phone: (405) 401-1348 Email: [log in to unmask] Schedule: 8:30-9:00 Registration/Refreshments 9:00-9:20 Welcome/Quickwrite 9:20-10:20 Writing Workshop Session 1 10:35-11:35 Writing Workshop Session 2 11:35-12:45 Lunch (We recommend lunch in the Student Union, $6 per person, or bring sack lunch.) 12:45-1:30 Group Session-Featured Author Sonia Gensler 1:30-2:00 Celebration of Writing Contest Winners/Read Around ________________________________ Audra Plummer M. Ed. National Board Certified Teacher Co-Director of Inservice Oklahoma Writing Project University of Oklahoma Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education 338 Cate Center Drive, Room 190 Norman, Oklahoma 73019 Phone: 405-401-1348 FAX: 405-325-7841 http://owp.ou.edu Join the OWP group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/55228413131/ Follow OWP on Twitter: https://twitter.com/okwritingproj Teachers Teaching Teachers