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Greenville
team members competing at the Power of the Pen Regional
Tournament at Minster Saturday
are (l to r) Hannah Cloyd and 6th Place
winner Kelly Snyder (both from Montesori), Leslie Logan
(Greenville
Junior High), GJHS Coach Elizabeth Horner, Avery Spencer (in back,
Montesori), First
Place winner Cristal Smith and Samantha Lobenstein
(both from GJHS). Kneeling in front is seventh
grader Moe (last name
not available), who is planning to compete as an eighth grader in 2012.
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Greenville Eighth
Graders take top POP honors
By Bob Robinson
Photos by Ruby Horner
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for more photos
Greenville Junior High School eighth grader Christal Smith took the
First Place Trophy for Individual Scores home at the Power of the Pen
Regional Tournament in Minster Saturday. She qualifies to compete in
the POP State Tournament in Columbus in April.
Also qualifying for State is Kelly Snyder, eighth grader at DeColores
Montessori School in Greenville, who placed sixth in the individual
competition.
This is the first Power of the Pen Tournament in which either student
has competed. It is only the second year that Greenville JHS has
competed in POP tournaments in recent years; it was the first time
DeColores Montessori has taken a team to the tournaments. Both students
had to qualify in the District competition at Greenville Junior High
School in February in order to compete in Minster.
GHS Junior Elizabeth Horner coached the Greenville team; Carrie
Winhoven coached the DeColores team.
Other Darke County students earning honors in the eighth grade were
Hannah Cloyd, DeColores Montessori, 13th place; and Versailles Middle
School’s Morgan Turpen (17) and Caroline Prakel (18). Versailles Middle
School’s Quincy Baltes ranked 21st in the seventh grade competition.
Several hundred students from more than a dozen schools competed.
Students are required to compose three narratives from specific
“prompts.” They are allowed 40 minutes to complete each assignment,
after which judges rate them, then send them to a different set of
judges who score them for total points. In addition to recording
individual and team scores, the papers considered the best in each
round are sent to “Best of Round” judges to choose the top narrative
for that round.
Seventh grade prompts are not available, but eighth grade prompts
covered the following topics: Prompt 1: “A place you wanted to go, then
what it was like once you got there;” Prompt 2: “Shakespeare was right…
Parting is such sweet sorrow;” and Prompt 3: “Describe what is left.”
Narratives were judged for creativity, story and character development
and how well the prompt was addressed.
One example of a “winning” Best of Round for Shakespeare’s famous quote
went to a student who was having a love affair with an energy drink,
called “Oh My Sweet V-Fusion.” An example of “What is Left” was a Queen
who was forced to make choices seeking “what was left” only to discover
that when she got there, what was left was “another choice.”
Team honors were based upon the total points achieved by all members of
a school’s competing team.
Top eighth grade team honors went to Fort Loramie HS, McKinney Middle
School, Ferguson Middle School and Bellbrook Middle School.
Top seventh grade team honors went to Fort Loramie HS, Bellbrook Middle
School, Tippecano Middle School and McKinney Middle School.
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for more photos
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GHJS
eighth grader Cristal Smith (left) took top honors in the Power of
the Pen Regional Tournament
at Minster Saturday, while DeColores
Montessori eighth grader Kelly Snyder won the Sixth Place trophy.
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