INTER-HOUSE CREATIVE WRITING COMPETITION (ENGLISH)

Another event culminated under Chrysalis 2020 with explicit planning and full gusto bringing out the hidden writer in each student. The Inter-House Creative Writing Competition in English was held in two stages. Initially the students of every section had to go through an elimination round from which 4 students, one per house, were selected from each section.

16 students from each class moved on to the final round wherein 1st,2nd,3rd and 4th positions were announced with points being added to the overall tally of their respective houses.

The first round was held by the English teachers in their respective classes on Microsoft Teams. The students had one hour to ponder over and write about the various thought provoking and fun topics provided to them. Class 6-8 were both given light-hearted topics — ‘The School of My Dreams’, ‘My Experiments in the Kitchen’, ‘Does Magic Exist?’ — as well as serious ones like, ‘The Things I take for Granted’, ‘The Role of Social Media’ amongst several others. Classes 9 to 12 had to go several notches up and integrate both moods. ‘An Offer I could not refuse’, ‘Paper has More Patience than Man’, ‘Man is the Most Dangerous Animal on Earth’ were some of the topics given to the seniors.

The final round was held on 31st July (6-8) and 4th August (9-12) .  This time class 6  wrote from the point of view of pets whose owners were getting separated, classes 7 and 8 had to bring out  their inner ‘William Wordsworth’ while classes 9 and 10 were given topical prompts like, ‘The Thoughts of a Person in the Year 2020’ and ‘The Sky was Pink Last Evening’. Classes 11 and 12 had to face their inner conflicts as the prompts covered areas such as taking up non -traditional occupations and stopping self -sacrificial acts.

All in all, it was a very enriching experience for both teachers and students alike.

The first positions were bagged by-