Archmere Students Earn High WordWright Honors

In this year's second meet of the WordWright Challenge, the team of Archmere students won high honors. Held in December, the Challenge, a national competition for high school students requiring close reading and analysis of prose and poetry, included 693 school teams from all across the country. Archmere's eleventh graders placed eleventh in the nation, white the twelfth graders placed fourteenth in the nation, among all teams competing at this level.

Students who won high individual honors in the meet included juniors Sophia Liston, Elise Brady, Ali Curren ad Ciara Trigg; and seniors Isabella Abbrescia, Abel Chen, and Grace Lairdeson. The students were supervised by Stephen Klinge. More than 65,000 students from 48 states participated in the meet.

The texts for the second WordWright meet this year were a short story by Doris Lessing for 9th and 10th graders, and a Shakespeare sonnet paired with a poem by Anthony Hecht for 11th and 12th graders. The students will participate in two more meets over the coming months, and medals and certificates will be awarded in June to those who achieve and/or progress the most in the course of the year.