Pearl River Students Win High Honors At WordWright Challenge

From Pearl River HS: Several students representing Pearl River High School recently won high honors at this year’s WordWright Challenge, a competition for American high school students requiring close reading and analysis of many different kinds of prose and poetry.

In the year’s third meet, freshman Marguerite McAree, sophomores Siobhan Dillon, Rose Schwantner, and Olivia Tricano, and junior Pat Sammon all earned near-perfect scores, placing them among the 154 highest scoring ninth graders, the 224 highest scoring tenth graders, and the 110 highest-scoring eleventh graders in the entire country. Congratulations to these students on their high achievement! Pearl River High School’s participation was overseen by Doreen Arney and Eileen Shephard.

The WordWright Challenge is a national reading competition for students in grades 9 through 12 that requires analytical reading of many kinds of prose and poetry. It emphasizes perceptive interpretation, sensitivity to language, and an appreciation of style. More than 60,000 students from some of the best public and private high schools in 47 states participated last year.

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