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How do I register so I can submit my students' essays?
All teachers, advisors, aides, counselors, and student teachers are eligible to register as Laws of Life Coordinators and submit students' essays.
Send your request to become a Laws of Life Coordinator from your school-based email address to charplus@csd.org. You will recieve a reply email with a web access site and complete instructions for online submission. You can serve as a coordinator for an individual student or several classes. Because each essay must be submitted separately online, we encourage many coordinators from each school. Your submission indicates that the essay has been edited and revised has been read and reviewed by you is original is ready for publication includes a Essay Release Form with a parent/guardian signature This form is faxed or mailed to: CHARACTERplus Laws of Life on STLtoday.com 8225 Florissant Road · St. Louis, MO 63121 Attn: Diane Stirling Fax: 314.692.9700 · Phone: 314.692.9722
Encourage and motivate your students to write their curriculum. Laws of Life works well:
in a personal narrative unit, as a Jounalism assignment, as part of an ethics lesson, as a senior exit essay, as a reflection piece during a service-learning project, or as a writing piece to complement literature.
Brainstorm possible topics through journal writing, quotations/proverbs, an inspirational news story, responses to literary characters, or thepre-writing questionnaire.
Allow time for classroom discussion.
Write your own Laws of Life essay and share it with your students.
Discuss and examine effective introductory paragraphs.
Discuss ways that supporting points can develop the writer's personal law of life.
Ask students to discuss their essays with others throughout the writing process. Family members and peers can be a valuable resource.
Develop aPeer Editing processor Teacher/student conferences to discuss, review and edit their work.
Reserve classroom time to share polished essays on a volunteer basis.
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