Literary Week at Maria’s Public School
Maria’s Public School is organizing the annual literary week as a part of the Mofizuddin Ahmed
Hazarika Literary Awards from August 17 to August 20, 2015. In connection with the Awards
inter-School literary competitions will be held on 17th and 18th August, inter-school quiz on
August 19 and inter-school debate will be held on August 20, 2015. The order of events, rules
and the venues are as follows:
Dates of Competitions:
1.
August 17th, 2015
:
English Creative Writing and Assamese Recitation
2.
August 18th, 2015
:
English Recitation and Assamese Creative Writing
3.
August 19th, 2015:
4.
August 20th, 2015
Interschool Quiz
:
Interschool Debate
Venue:
August 17th, 18th & 20th, 2015 : Mofizuddin Ahmed Hazarika Library, Maria’s Public School
August 19th, 2015 :
The District Library Auditorium, Guwahati
Rules for English Creative Writing Competitions1.
The competition is divided into two groups.
Group A: for students of Classes VII and VIII
Group B: for students of classes IX and X
2.
The schools may send 2 students per group.
3.
The topic for the competition will be given on the spot.
4.
Time allowed – 2 hours.
5.
Registration can be done on-line at [email protected]
6.
No registration fee is required.
7.
Please confirm your school’s participation on or before 7th of August, 2015.
8.
Students must report by 9:00 on 17th August, 2015 at Maria’s Public School, Birkuchi,
Narengi, Guwahati-26.
9.
10.
The date for the prize distribution will be announced on the same day.
Students must come in their school uniform.
Teachers in-charge-
1)
2)
Ms. Kalyani Arandhara - 9957189691
Ms. Ellie Dutta - 9864025023
Rules for English Elocution CompetitionPieces for Elocution (Enclosed)
1.
Group-A (Classes VII and VIII)
a)
PINOCCHIO – (A tribute to Roald Dahl) by Federico Granier
OR
b)
CANDYMAN – By Roald Dahl
2.
Group-B (Classes IX and X)
a)
KUBLA KHAN- By S.T. Coleridge
OR
b)
THE FROG & THE NIGHTINGALE – By Vikram Seth
3.
Schools may send 2 students per group
4.
Students will be required to recite their pieces before the judges
5.
Registration can be done online at [email protected]
6.
No registration fee is required.
7.
Please confirm your participation on or before 7th August, 2015.
9.
Students must report on 18th August (Tuesday), 2015 by 9:00 a.m. at Maria’s Public
School, Birkuchi, Narengi, Guwahati-26.
10.
Results will be declared at the end of the competition.
11.
The date for prize distribution will be announced on the same day.
12.
Students must come in their school uniform.
Teachers in charge - Jabeen Sharma Pathak
Nayantara Chaliha
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8811074177
9954028218
Poems for Recitation: Group A
Candy Man
Who can take a sunrise, sprinkle it with dew
Cover it in chocolate and a miracle or two
The candy man, the candy man can
The candy man can 'cause he mixes it with love
And makes the world taste good
Who can take a rainbow, wrap it in a sigh
Soak it in the sun and make a strawberry–lemon pie
The candy man?
The candy man, the candy man can
The candy man can 'cause he mixes it with love
And makes the world taste good
Willy Wonka makes everything he bakes
Satisfying and delicious
Talk about your childhood wishes
You can even eat the dishes
Who can take tomorrow, dip it in a dream
Separate the sorrow and collect up all the cream
The candy man, Willy Wonka can, the candy man can
The candy man can 'cause he mixes it with love
And makes the world taste good
And the world tastes good'
Cause the candy man thinks it should
-Roald Dahl
Or,
PINOCCHIO – (The Roald Dahl unwritten story)
An old wood-carver had a wish,
although he had one cat, one fish,
he asked a star for bones and skin
(as a Blue Fairy was coming in)
to see his puppet like a real boy
to end his days with so much joy.
Once inside the fairy said: ,
(as the old man was in the bed)
You´ve been so good. You´ll be a dad.
This wooden puppet´ll be your lad.
She made Pinocchio come alive
but in return he had to strive
to do his best to tell no lies
and if he needed good advise
a little cricket could help him out
if any problem might bring about.
But he had to make a deal
if he wanted to become real:
brave and truthful he should be
and he would have a new ID.
From now on, all day, all night
he couldn´t do anything right,
he looked for pleasure, fun and fame,
all of these without an aim.
Lots of lies everywhere
not at all being aware
that his nose grew ever longer
with each lie it was stronger.
Till finally one marvelous day
every crap he threw away
he saved Geppetto from a whale
all of them ended up hale.
Back at home, the Magic Fairy,
after seeing they were merry,
said: Pinocchio, as reward
your wish won´t be ignored
She gave her wand a mighty flick
but she started to get sick
cause the magic didn´t work
(she turned out to be a jerk)
The Blue Fairy was a fake
there was no magic, for god´s sake!
You can´t imagine what you will hear:
she was a simple puppeteer!
Poems for recitation: Group B
Kubla Khan
By SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round;
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced:
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail:
And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean;
And ’mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war!
The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves;
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!
A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw:
It was an Abyssinian maid
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight ’twould win me,
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.
Or,
THE FROG AND THE NIGHTINGALE
by Vikram Seth
Once upon a time a frog
Croaked away in Bingle Bog
Every night from dusk to dawn
He croaked awn and awn and awn
Other creatures loathed his voice,
But, alas, they had no choice,
And the crass cacophony
Blared out from the sumac tree
At whose foot the frog each night
Minstrelled on till morning night
Neither stones nor prayers nor sticks.
Insults or complaints or bricks
Stilled the frogs determination
To display his heart's elation.
But one night a nightingale
In the moonlight cold and pale
Perched upon the sumac tree
Casting forth her melody
Dumbstruck sat the gaping frog
And the whole admiring bog
Stared towards the sumac, rapt,
And, when she had ended, clapped,
Ducks had swum and herons waded
To her as she serenaded
And a solitary loon
Wept, beneath the summer moon.
Toads and teals and tiddlers, captured
By her voice, cheered on, enraptured:
"Bravo! " "Too divine! " "Encore! "
So the nightingale once more,
Quite unused to such applause,
Sang till dawn without a pause.
Next night when the Nightingale
Shook her head and twitched her tail,
Closed an eye and fluffed a wing
And had cleared her throat to sing
She was startled by a croak.
"Sorry - was that you who spoke? "
She enquired when the frog
Hopped towards her from the bog.
"Yes," the frog replied. "You see,
I'm the frog who owns this tree
In this bog I've long been known
For my splendid baritone
And, of course, I wield my pen
For Bog Trumpet now and then"
"Did you… did you like my song? "
"Not too bad - but far too long.
The technique was fine of course,
But it lacked a certain force".
"Oh! " the nightingale confessed.
Greatly flattered and impressed
That a critic of such note
Had discussed her art and throat:
"I don't think the song's divine.
But - oh, well - at least it's mine".
"That's not much to boast about".
Said the heartless frog. "Without
Proper training such as I
- And few others can supply.
You'll remain a mere beginner.
But with me you'll be a winner"
"Dearest frog", the nightingale
Breathed: "This is a fairy tale And you are Mozart in disguise
Come to earth before my eyes".
"Well I charge a modest fee."
"Oh! " "But it won't hurt, you'll see"
Now the nightingale inspired,
Flushed with confidence, and fired
With both art and adoration,
Sang - and was a huge sensation.
Animals for miles around
Flocked towards the magic sound,
And the frog with great precision
Counted heads and charged admission.
Rules and regulations for Assamese Creative Writing1.
There is only one group for the students of Classes IX and X
2.
Schools may send 2 students.
3.
The topic for the competition will be given on the spot.
4.
Time allowed – 2 hours.
5.
Registration can be done on-line at [email protected]
6.
No registration fee is required.
7.
Please confirm your school’s participation on or before 7th of August, 2015.
8.
Students must report by 9:00 on 18th August, 2015 at Maria’s Public School Birkuchi,
Narengi, Guwahati-26.
9.
The date for the prize distribution will be announced on the same day.
Teachers in-charge- 1)
2)
Ms. Madhabi Goswami - 9954821106
Ms. Pratima Hazarika - 9706662208
Rules and regulations of recitation in Assamese1.
There are 2 groups: A&B.
Group A is for students of Classes V-VII
Group B is for students of Classes VIII-X
2.
The selected poem which is attached will have to be learnt for the competition.
3.
Students will be required to recite their pieces before the judges.
4.
The Results will be declared at the end of the Competition.
5.
Students should report by 9:00 a.m. at the Birkuchi School Campus on 17th
2015.
6.
The Competitions will start at 10 a.m.
7.
Schools are requested to send only 2 students per group.
8.
No registration fee required.
9.
Registration can be done on-line at [email protected]
10.
Please confirm your school’s participation on or before 7th of August, 2015.
11.
The date for the prize distribution will be announced on the same day.
Teachers in-charge
a)
b)
Ms. Madhabi Goswami (9954821106)
Ms. Protima Hazarika (9706662208)
August,
c)
Ms. Nabanita Talukdar (9957563006)
Inter School Quiz – ‘Power of Mind’
Date : 19th August 2015
Venue : District Library, Guwahati.
Quiz Master : Mr. Barry O’ Brien
Reporting Time : 9 a.m.
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c)
Registration of Teams Written Preliminary Round Final Stage Round -
9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
10 a.m.
11 a.m.
Rules and Regulations of the Quiz:
1.
The Quiz is open for students of Classes-IX to XII
2.
Each participating school can send in a maximum of 2 teams. Each team comprising of 3
students from Classes-IX to XII.
3.
Last date for confirmation of teams is 6th August’15 at the mentioned email-id :
[email protected] or [email protected] or phone numbers –
9864157286, 9864109238
4.
It will be a General Quiz, where there will be a Written Preliminary (Selection) round from
which 6 teams will compete in the Final Stage Round for the Championship.
5.
The school can also send 5 students (maximum) to accompany their respective teams to
witness the quiz.
6.
The school teams should be accompanied by a Faculty member. The team members and the
students coming to watch the quiz should carry valid student ID cards and a covering letter of
information from the Principal/Headmaster/Headmistress of their school.
7.
All students must be attired in their school uniform.
Inter-school Debate – War with Words
Rules and Regulations1. MOTION FOR THE DEBATE:
TIME SET DECEMBER 2003: THIS HOUSE BELIEVES THAT A TYRANT LIKE SADDAM
HUSSAIN THREATENS THE OIL RESERVES OF THE ENTIRE REGION.
Day & Date: Thursday 20th August, 2015. Time:9:30
Venue : Maria’s Public School, Birkuchi
A school team will consist of 2 members each, from Classes 10, 11 and 12.
The two debaters will speak for and against the motion respectively.
Reporting time: 9:00 a.m.
Registration of team: 9:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
The debate will start at 10:00 a.m. sharp
There will be no registration fee.
Each debater will speak for 4 minutes.
The decision of the jury will be final and binding.
The Participating debaters must be in their proper school uniform and carry a valid school
student ID card.
13. The registration form attached herewith must be duly filled, sealed and signed by the Head of
the Institution.
14. Date of confirmation: 7th August, 2015.
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15. Participation may be confirmed through email: [email protected] or over
phone. Phone no- 9864157286/9864068171
Wish you an enriching and amazing experience of literary and scholarly exercises.