3rd Grader Sidney Bogle Leaps into her Poem • See Slideshow below the jump ↓
Last Thursday OTA held its 1st Annual Poetry & Rhetoric Contest, From the Page to the Stage. All students in grades K-8 memorized a poem from the Listen, My Children Core Knowledge K-5 Poetry Books or 6th-8th reading lists. Outside judges evaluated recitations for understanding, delivery, & difficulty and chose 3 students to represent each grade.
On Thursday all the contestants competed in the 7th/8th grade “Auditorium”. 1st, 2nd, & 3rd Place winners received ice cream gift certificates from our friends at the Old Town Cold Stone Creamery. 1st Place winners also received a gift certificates from Yellow Book Road bookstore in Liberty Station. Thank You to both our donors; to Bob Hamm for organizing the contest; and to judges Ms Susan Colvin and Ms. Mary Zapata.
Here are the winners in each category… and a slideshow of the contestants reciting. Congratulations to all OTA students who were chosen to represent their class.
K-2 Division:
- 1st: Jackson Studebaker (2nd Grade): Rudolf is Tired of the City, Gwendolyn Brooks
- 2nd: A.J. Gallego (1st Grade): Solomon Grundy, Traditional
- 3rd; Karissa Keith (2nd Grade): Smart, Shel Silverstein
3-5 Division:
- 1st: R.T. Squillaro (5th Grade): I, Too, Sing America, Langston Hughes
- 2nd: Autumn MacDonald (5th Grade): Narcissa, Gwendolyn Brooks
- 3rd: Katie Thomas (4th Grade), Clarence, Shel Silverstein
6-8 Division:
- 1st: Lloyd Garrison (7th Grade): Psalm of Life, Longfellow
- 2nd: Jackson Hulett (7th Grade): We Real Cool, Gwendolyn Brooks
- 3rd: Olivia Howard (6th Grade), From Mother to Son, Langston Hughes