{"id":201755,"date":"2017-04-06T11:37:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T15:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=201755"},"modified":"2023-07-25T11:38:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T15:38:53","slug":"connecticuts-2017-letters-about-literature-contest-winners-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2017\/04\/connecticuts-2017-letters-about-literature-contest-winners-named\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut\u2019s 2017 Letters About Literature Contest Winners Named"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Neag School of\u00a0Education\u00a0is proud to announce Connecticut\u2019s winners of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.read.gov\/letters\/\">24th annual Letters About Literature contest<\/a>, a nationwide writing contest sponsored by the Library of Congress for elementary, middle, and high school students.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3504 alignright img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/media.education.uconn.edu\/aurora\/neag\/2015\/10\/Letters-about-Literature-image_theme-400x181.jpg\" alt=\"Theme Letters About Literature\" width=\"400\" height=\"181\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 400px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 400\/181;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This fall, the\u00a0Neag School\u00a0served as the contest\u2019s Connecticut sponsor for the 2016-17 academic year;\u00a0Professor Wendy Glenn\u00a0is\u00a0the contest\u2019s\u00a0faculty representative for the state of Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>Winners from each state for each of contest\u2019s three categories (Grades 4-6, Grades 7-8, and Grades 9-12) will receive a cash prize and state recognition, \u00a0and will then advance to the national competition, for which winners will be chosen later this month. Read more about the contest\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/s.uconn.edu\/NeagLAL\">here<\/a>, and\u00a0click the winners\u2019 names below to read their winning essays.<\/p>\n<h3>Congratulations to the\u00a0winners for the state of Connecticut:<\/h3>\n<h4><strong><u>Level I (Grades 4-6)<\/u><\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>First place:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=0Byx9oFviMFiiZTE2bUdMNkxkbDQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Casey Campellone<\/a>,\u00a0CREC Montessori Magnet School, Hartford, Conn. \u2014 Essay based on<em>\u00a0March 1, 2, &amp; 3<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0John Lewis<\/li>\n<li><strong>Second place:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=0Byx9oFviMFiiVkN5ckVmQ284XzQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Winston Lee<\/a>,\u00a0Thompson Brook School, Avon, Conn. \u2014<em>\u00a0<\/em>Essay based on<em>\u00a0The Hobbit<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0J.R.R. Tolkien<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong><u>Level II (Grades 7-8)<\/u><\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>First place:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=0Byx9oFviMFiiYWNYY05yZjRBOXM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hope McCann<\/a>,\u00a0Sage Park Middle School, Windsor, Conn. \u2014\u00a0Essay based on<em>\u00a0Out of My Mind<\/em>\u00a0by Sharon M. Draper<\/li>\n<li><strong>Second place:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=0Byx9oFviMFiiWkFWdjFZZndMU2s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Araya Miller<\/a>,\u00a0Sage Park Middle School, Windsor, Conn. \u2014 Essay based on<i>\u00a0The Book\u00a0Thief<\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Markus Zusak<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong><u>Level III (Grades 9-12)<\/u><\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>First place:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=0Byx9oFviMFiiNWI1TnhwZ2hNVjg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maggie Veronesi<\/a>, RHAM High School, Hebron, Conn.\u00a0\u2014 Essay based on\u00a0<em>All Quiet on the Western Front<\/em>,\u00a0by\u00a0Erich Maria Remarque<i><\/i><\/li>\n<li><strong>Second place:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=0Byx9oFviMFiib3BhQWdyWEVpbEU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nicholas Vollero<\/a>,\u00a0Notre Dame\u00a0High School, Avon, Conn. \u2014 Essay based on\u00a0<em>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Harper Lee<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thank you again to the Neag School\u2019s contest judges:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alex Bottelsen<\/li>\n<li>Brenna Conrad<\/li>\n<li>Kellie-Anne Crane<\/li>\n<li>Jack Dunn<\/li>\n<li>Wendy Glenn<\/li>\n<li>Lara Hawley<\/li>\n<li>Andrew Johnson<\/li>\n<li>Danielle King<\/li>\n<li>Kelly Markle<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Neag School of Education is proud to announce Connecticut\u2019s winners of the 24th annual Letters About Literature contest, a nationwide writing contest sponsored by the Library of Congress for elementary, middle, and high school students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2424,1855],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1878],"class_list":["post-201755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neag-community-engagement","category-neag"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 04:41:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201756,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201755\/revisions\/201756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201755"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=201755"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=201755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}