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 fifth in the nation and the twelfth graders placed sixth. English Department Chair and Teacher Stephen Klinge supervised the Archmere students. Over 640 high school teams participated in this national competition.
Several of Archmere's students won highest honors for year-long individual achievement: Senior Leah DaCosta was the second highest ranked twelfth grader in the entire country in the cumulative year end standings, while her teammates Keelin Reilly, Olivia O'Dwyer and Charles Liston placed, respectively, among the four highest scorers, the seven highest scorers, and the 25 highest scorers at this grade level nationwide. At the same time, Natasha Gengler was one of the 11 highest scorers at the eleventh grade level, and her teammate Grace Dignazio and Giavanna Mariano placed among the top 26 nationwide.
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 fifth in the nation and the twelfth graders placed sixth. English Department Chair and Teacher Stephen Klinge supervised the Archmere students. Over 640 high school teams participated in this national competition.
Several of Archmere's students won highest honors for year-long individual achievement: Senior Leah DaCosta was the second highest ranked twelfth grader in the entire country in the cumulative year end standings, while her teammates Keelin Reilly, Olivia O'Dwyer and Charles Liston placed, respectively, among the four highest scorers, the seven highest scorers, and the 25 highest scorers at this grade level nationwide. At the same time, Natasha Gengler was one of the 11 highest scorers at the eleventh grade level, and her teammate Grace Dignazio and Giavanna Mariano placed among the top 26 nationwide.
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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