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 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

Northwood High School and Jay M Robinson Middle School take state titles.

NCASA held the third annual The Quill on demand writing competition on Saturday March 2 hosted by Lexington Senior High School. Finishing in first place among high schools with a final score of 91.0 was Northwood High School.  Team members for Northwood High School are James Calhoun, Frances Beroset, Jacob Friedman, and Quinn Kerscher. 

Finishing in second place was Northwest Guilford High School with 89.3 points. Finishing in third place with 86.4 points was Atkins A&T High School. Compete standings are shown below:

  1. Northwood HS
  2. Northwest Guilford HS
  3. Atkins A&T HS
  4. Lexington Senior HS
  5. Hickory HS
  6. Newton Conover HS
  7. High Point Central HS
  8. Myers Park HS
  9. Gates County HS
  10. Lee Early College HS

The following winners were also recognized in the individual events:

  • · James Stallings of Northwest Guilford HS in the Argumentation category.
  • · Aliyah Wright of Lexington Senior HS in the Creative Writing category.
  • · James Calhoun of Northwood HS in the Problem / Solution category.
  • · Tumi Mabaso of Atkins A&T HS in the Literary Analysis category.

This was the first NCASA State Title for Northwood HS.

 

  1. The Quill 2013 Regional Competition Results
  2. Results from The Quill State Finals 2012
  3. The Quill State Finals and NCASA Scholastic Cup standings
  4. The Quill State Finals
  5. the Quill - Schedule