Two Teams of Archmere Students Earn Highest Cumulative WordWright Honors
The WordWright Challenge is a national reading competition for students in grades 9 through 12 that require analytical reading of many kinds of prose and poetry. It emphasizes perceptive interpretation, sensitivity to language, and an appreciation of style. There are four meets per year but only the scores of the top 10 students at each grade level officially count. The sum of these top 10 scores represents each team's score.
In the cumulative standings at the end of the four WordWright Challenge meets this year, Archmere's eleventh graders placed seventh in the nation (after placing fifth in the final meet) and the twelfth graders placed eleventh (after placing tenth in the final meet). English Department Chair and Teacher Stephen Klinge supervised the Archmere students. Over 630 high school teams participated in this national competition.
Two of Archmere's students won highest honors for year-long individual achievement: Junior Charles Liston was one of the 17 highest ranked eleventh graders in the entire country in the year-end cumulative standings, while senior Hannah Palczuk was one of the 19 highest ranked twelfth graders.
In the final WordWright Challenge meet that was held in April, juniors Anna Cassidy, Keelin Reilly and Emma Stovicek earned perfect scores, as well as senior Hannah Palczuk. Students who also excelled at the meet were juniors Akhil Bolly, Sarah Burton, Leah DaCosta, and Olivia O'Dwyer, and seniors Christine Ford, Alec Giakas, Meghan McBride, and John Luke Pileggi-Fraguada.
More than 59,000 students from some of the best public and private high schools participate in the competition. Texts for the the WordWright Challenge can range from short fiction by John Updike or Eurora Welty to poetry as old as Shakespeare's or as recent at Margaret Atwood's, to essays as classic as E. B. White's or as current as a Time Magazine opinion piece by James Poniewozick.
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In the cumulative standings at the end of the four WordWright Challenge meets this year, Archmere's eleventh graders placed seventh in the nation (after placing fifth in the final meet) and the twelfth graders placed eleventh (after placing tenth in the final meet). English Department Chair and Teacher Stephen Klinge supervised the Archmere students. Over 630 high school teams participated in this national competition.
Two of Archmere's students won highest honors for year-long individual achievement: Junior Charles Liston was one of the 17 highest ranked eleventh graders in the entire country in the year-end cumulative standings, while senior Hannah Palczuk was one of the 19 highest ranked twelfth graders.
In the final WordWright Challenge meet that was held in April, juniors Anna Cassidy, Keelin Reilly and Emma Stovicek earned perfect scores, as well as senior Hannah Palczuk. Students who also excelled at the meet were juniors Akhil Bolly, Sarah Burton, Leah DaCosta, and Olivia O'Dwyer, and seniors Christine Ford, Alec Giakas, Meghan McBride, and John Luke Pileggi-Fraguada.
More than 59,000 students from some of the best public and private high schools participate in the competition. Texts for the the WordWright Challenge can range from short fiction by John Updike or Eurora Welty to poetry as old as Shakespeare's or as recent at Margaret Atwood's, to essays as classic as E. B. White's or as current as a Time Magazine opinion piece by James Poniewozick.
Archmere Academy is a private, Catholic, college preparatory co-educational academy,
grades 9-12 founded in 1932 by the Norbertine Fathers.
grades 9-12 founded in 1932 by the Norbertine Fathers.
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