Annual Foreign Language Poetry Contest – A Gold for Unquowa!
Posted by Carina BlackwellEach year the Connecticut Council of Language Teachers (CTCOLT) offers a virtual poetry contest, inviting hundreds of students from Connecticut schools in grades 7-12 to compete, by reciting poetry via Zoom, in the languages that they study.
This year, we had five students participate in either Mandarin, Spanish or Greek poetry recitation against 400 language learners from other schools. Each student receives a poem for their level and teachers help explain the meaning of their poems. During recitation, students were required to stand up and look at the “audience” on the screen. They were graded by how fluent they sounded, their body languages, and how much they understood the poem.
They all worked very hard to prepare for this contest and we couldn’t be more proud of each of them.
We would especially like to congratulate Kyra Karayiannis for winning first place in Greek poetry recitation. She is the gold winner this year at Unquowa!
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