Enrollment Letter

Dear 7th Graders:

Would you like to write movie, game, or CD reviews for the new Carnegie newspaper? How about covering sports and news and seeing your articles published on the internet? Does meeting famous authors, publishing your stories and poems, writing movie and television scripts interest you? If you answered yes to any of these questions, consider enrolling in Carnegie’s brand new Writers’ Magnet.

The Carnegie Writers’ Magnet is a college preparatory, standards-based small learning community that will be housed at Carnegie next year. If you’re accepted into this prestigious program you’ll share the same cadre of teachers as your classmates, which not only facilitates a closer working relationship with your peers and teachers, but also facilitates team teaching and makes planning special assemblies and field trips much easier.

You will also be eligible to become a staff writer or even an editor for the new school newspaper. Students will publish the newspaper in an elective class that will be open only to students in the Writers’ Magnet.

At the end of your eighth-grade year you will have a sizable body of published work, and you also will have learned key strategies to succeed on the SAT, the California High School Exit Examination, and AP tests.

If you are interested in enrolling in the Writers’ Magnet return this letter filled out and signed by a parent or guardian by Friday, May 27, to your homeroom teacher. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Andy Hilbert
English Teacher, Writers’ Magnet