The Quill

 

Teams of four students must create written products given a prompt from a specific text type. The Quill is an original competition developed in cooperation with the North Carolina Reading Association (NCRA), and is aligned with Common Core standards.

 

Congratulations to Hope Middle School of Greenville (pictured above) and Hickory High School, our 2017 The Quill State Champions!

Congratulations to Hope Middle School of Greenville and Hickory High School (pictured above), our 2017-2018 The Quill State Champions!

photo from previous event

NCASA is pleased to announce Regional winners and State Final Qualifiers for The Quill!

During the week of October 21, students across North Carolina sat down to computers at their home schools to respond to on-demand writing prompts in regional competitions for the state writing competition, The Quill.  Prompts covered the core curriculum types of Argumentation, Problem/Solution, Narrative Writing (middle school), Creative Writing (high school), Informative/Explanatory (middle school), and Literary Analysis (high school).  

NCASA held the fourth annual The Quill on demand writing competition this past Saturday, March 22, hosted by Atkins A&T High School. Finishing in first place among high schools with a final score of 91.3 was Northwood High School of Pittsboro.  Team members for Northwood High School are James Calhoun, Frances Beroset, Jacob Friedman, and Rachel Crawford. 

Finishing in second place was Atkins A&T High School of Winston-Salem with 83.3 points. Finishing in third place with 81.6 points was Cleveland High School. Compete standings are shown below:

  1. Northwood HS
  2. Atkins A&T HS
  3. Cleveland HS
  4. Brunswick Early College HS
  5. Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy
  6. Northwest Guilford HS
  7. Myers Park HS
  8. Lee Early College HS
  9. Newton-Conover HS
  10. Lexington Senior HS

The North Carolina Association for Scholastic Activities held the fifth annual The Quill on demand writing competition today, hosted by Atkins A&T High School. Finishing in first place among high schools with a final score of 87.9 was Northwood High School of Pittsboro.  Team members for Northwood High School are Amanda Peele, Frances Beroset, Hudson Moore, and Rachel Crawford. 

Finishing in second place was Cleveland High School with a score of 84.3 Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy finished in third with a score of 83.3. Compete standings are shown below:

 

Administration of the Regional Competitions for The Quill completed on February 20. Middle schools and high schools all over North Carolina competed at the Regional level for the chance to advance to the March 22 State Finals hosted by Atkins A&T High School in Winston-Salem. Schools qualifying for the State Final are shown below:

West High School Regional

  1. Atkins A&T HS of Winston-Salem (Meredith Hemphill, Chris Perez, Simone-Elise Honeycutt, John Henry Jackson)
  2. Ardrey Kell HS of Charlotte
  3. Myers Park HS of Charlotte
  4. Thomas Jefferson Classical of Spindale
  5. Newton Conover HS

East High School Regional

  1. Northwood HS of Pittsboro (Frances Beroset, Jacob Friedman, Rachel Crawford, James Calhoun)
  2. Cleveland HS
  3. Lee Early College HS
  4. Brunswick Early College
  5. Northwest Guilford HS