Youngstown State University English Festival 2013

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Grades 7-9

Mississippi Trial, 1955 by Chris Crowe
Getting Away With Murder by Chris Crowe
Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
King of the Mild Frontier by Chris Crutcher
The Battle of Jericho by Sharon M. Draper
Fire From the Rock by Sharon M. Draper
Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes

Grades 10-12

Getting Away With Murder by Chris Crowe
Deadline by Chris Crutcher
King of the Mild Frontier by Chris Crutcher
The Battle of Jericho by Sharon M. Draper
Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper
Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes
Dark Sons by Nikki Grimes

The 35th annual Youngstown State University English Festival is scheduled for April 17, 2013 for the tenth through twelfth graders and April 18 and 19, 2013 for the seventh through ninth graders. About 3,000 junior and senior high school students from about 200 Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania schools come together with parents, teachers and other adults interested in promoting reading and writing excellence.

Teachers are invited to choose students to participate in the festival. Participants are required to read all seven books for their grade level. Students may compete in the Candace Gay Memorial Essay contest. Other students may prepare art projects for the art contest. During the workshop, they will listen to some of the authors they have read.

This year the guest lecturers will include Chris Crutcher, Sharon M. Draper, Nikki Grimes and Chris Crowe. The will also attend dramatic performances, participate in book discussions, play language and knowledge games and a variety of other reading and writing related activities.