{"id":193735,"date":"2022-04-14T10:08:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T14:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=193735"},"modified":"2023-06-27T12:45:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T16:45:53","slug":"connecticuts-2022-letters-about-literature-contest-winners-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2022\/04\/connecticuts-2022-letters-about-literature-contest-winners-named\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut\u2019s 2022 Letters About Literature Contest Winners Named"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span>The Neag School of Education,\u00a0<\/span>UConn\u2019s Department of English<\/a>, and the\u00a0Connecticut Writing Project (CWP)<\/a>, co-sponsors of the 30th annual\u00a0Letters About Literature<\/a>\u00a0contest, are proud to announce Connecticut\u2019s winners for the 2021-22 academic year.<\/p>\n

Each year, students in Grades 4 through 12 are invited to read a text, broadly defined, and write a letter to the author (living or dead) about how the text\u00a0affected them personally.\u00a0Submissions are grouped according to Grade Level (Grades 4-6, Grades 7-8, and Grades 9-12). <\/p>\n

Each of these submissions was read and scored by Neag School alumni teacher-volunteers. Of the 558 submissions from Connecticut students this year, there were 69 students who received Honorable Mention<\/a> as well as\u00a062 Semi-Finalists<\/a>.\u00a0Each Letters About Literature Semi-Finalist and Honorable Mention recipient received a letter of recognition. <\/p>\n

A second set of judges, all pre-service teachers, then read and scored the 62 Semi-Finalists\u2014again, twice for each submission\u2014and selected a total of nine Finalists, three per Grade Level. Then 1 student per grade level was named Winner. Each of the nine Finalists will receive a gift card. The six Finalists get $100 each and the three Winners get $200 each.<\/p>\n

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Neag School Professor\u00a0Doug Kaufman<\/a>, CWP Director\u00a0Jason Courtmanche<\/a>, and Department of English Ph.D. candidate Kiedra Taylor served as the contest\u2019s representatives for the state of Connecticut. Read more about the contest<\/a>, and continue reading for the winning essays.<\/p>\n

Letters About Literature Finalists for the State of Connecticut<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The following are the contest finalists, listed with their respective school\u2019s and teacher\u2019s names, and the work of literature that is the focus of their essay, with access to their winning submissions in PDF format.<\/p>\n

Level I (Grades 4-6)<\/strong><\/h3>\n