Poetry Out Loud Winners!

[Rev. Elizabeth]

BFA Fairfax held the classroom contests for 2010 Poetry Outloud on Thursday January 7th.   Poetry Outloud is a nationwide poetry recitation contest in which over 400,000 students compete in all fifty states.   To participate students memorize two poems and then present them  to an audience and judges.  Students who qualify with their first recitation then proceed to present the second poem.
  Presentations are judged by a variety of criteria including difficulty of poem, number of errors, dramatization, clarity of speech. 

Fairfax will hold its  school competition on January 27th. The winner of  the school contest competes in the state championship in Montpelier in early March for the chance to go to Washington DC for the national championship in April. 

Classroom winners in Fairfax were:

Kirsten Enegren (10)
Evyn Banach (10)
Meghan Bosley (10)
Eli Philips (10)
Lyndsey Wells (10)
Cameron weber (11)
Helene Drelon (11)
Clara Bourdeau (12)
Malrissa Perkins (12)
Heather Peatman (12)
Casey Baczewski (12)
Brett Gennero (12)
Jordan King (12)
Deanne Rocheleau (12)

These students will enter the school finals on 1/17/10. Anyone seeking more information about Peotry Outloud should contact Fred Griffin at BFA Fairfax