![]() Last year, the first year of a district high school competition, South Lenoir won the title. “I don’t think we could have asked for a better competitor today than South Lenoir,” said Sara Levin, the Kinston High media coordinator who coaches the team with Lindsay Harts. But Kinston High’s margin of victory in its wins gave it a nine-point lead when the final score was tallied. In the high school Battle of the Books, Kinston High and South Lenoir High squared off in six games and each team won three. “I like that I get to meet new people and have a good strong team,” Kadence said.Īs the district winner, Woodington will represent LCPS in the regional Battle of the Books for middle schools in April in Wayne County. Still, she admits the competition takes what is usually a solitary pleasure to a new level. Kadence Thigpen, an eighth grader, gravitated to the team as a sixth grader because “I like to read,” she said. “Moss Hill sent us a lot of really good students,” Perritt said, giving a nod to the school that won the elementary contest in 2022. Among the newcomers are a number of sixth graders who competed in the elementary school Battle of the Books last year. Only four of the 12 team members are returning veterans. “We put together a strong team, kids who can work together and talk together and come up with the correct answer in the right amount of time.” “We came in to win,” said Missy Perritt, the media coordinator who coaches the Woodington team with English Language Arts teacher Jessica Montgomery. ![]() The middle school reading list consists of 16 books. The team from EB Frink Middle finished third and the team from Rochelle Middle finished fourth. But Woodington piled up the points in the second round to win by nine. This year, the two rivals split their head-to-head matchups and CSS led after the first of the two rounds. The win for Woodington was its 10th in the last 12 contests and marked another close encounter with Contentnea-Savannah, which won in 2021. Carlyle moderated the high school battle. Tanya Cahoon, media coordinator at South Lenoir High School, moderated the middle school contest. Friday’s event for middle schools and high schools was held at the Performing Arts Center on the campus of Kinston High School. “I was excited to see that each school won at least one game.”Įach year, the Battle of the Books tests students’ knowledge of books from a common reading list of fiction and nonfiction titles through questions related to content. “This was as competitive a Battle of the Books as I can remember,” said Christel Carlyle, LCPS’s director of middle school education and the tournament organizer. The Woodington team edged out the team from Contentnea-Savannah K-8 School in the middle school battle that also saw strong performances from teams representing EB Frink Middle School and Rochelle Middle School. Woodington Middle School picked up its second consecutive win and Kinston High School scored a revenge victory as LCPS middle schools and high schools squared off in back-to-back Battle of the Books contests on Friday.
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