On April 26, 13 Coginchaug High School students competed in the 32nd annual Connecticut Council of Language Teachers (CT COLT) Poetry Recitation Contest.
These brave and ambitious students volunteered to memorize a poem in either Latin, French or Spanish, working in their free time under the guidance of their language teachers to perfect their pronunciation and intonation.
The poem was then recited in front of a classroom of strangers at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford. In all, several hundred students from about 70 public and private Connecticut schools competed in 17 languages.
The languages included American Sign Language (ASL), Ancient Greek, Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, English Language Learners (ESOL/ELL), French, German, Modern Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
Students were judged in four areas: memorization, diction, interpretation, and body language.
Two Coginchaug students, Leandra Hylton and Kasey Scibilia, took home third place awards for their recitation in Latin. Coginchaug teachers Madame Cashore and Magistra Sersanti served as judges for French and Latin. The COLT Recitation Contest was a great opportunity for Coginchaug High to show off excellence in World Language learning.
The 13 Coginchaug particpants were :
Christian Alberico
Erin Blecha
Maggie Busey
Caitlyn Chabot
Mary D'Orvilliers
Danielle Crop
Samantha Drop
Ryan Gossart
Alan Haberen
Leandra Hylton
Tyler McDonald
Kasey Scibilia
Hamzah Yaghi
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