Student Essay Contest Winners

By Jennifer Fogarty, communications content manager
Congratulations to fourth graders Eliana Leff, Atlanta Bass-Sulpizio and Marly Berlin who were chosen as winners of the Friends of La Jolla/Riford Library Student Essay Contest. Applicants wrote a 250-word essay answering the question, “If all the books in the world were about to disappear but you could save one, what would it be? Why?”
 
These Torreys were three of only six winners out of 125 entries to be invited to read their essays at an awards ceremony on April 11 at the La Jolla/Riford library. Head of Lower School, fourth-grade teachers and our Lower School librarian were all in attendance to celebrate their achievement. Eliana Leff was chosen as the grand prize winner, announced at the ceremony. All entries were judged by a panel of community members who looked for originality and how well the writer developed the selected prompt. The Friends of the La Jolla Branch Library donated Warwick’s bookstore gift cards for all of the winners. Additionally, grand prize winner Eliana was gifted a journal and a pen.

As part of the fourth-grade writing and reading curriculum, students study literature analysis, looking at themes and figurative language, and relating the text to self-connection. “Students are asked to read for 25 minutes daily,” shared fourth-grade teacher Josephine Shieh, “and this contest provided a great writing opportunity for students to share and reflect on the books that really spoke to them.”

The books they would save are:
  • Eliana Leff would save Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
  • Marly Berlin would save On The Far Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
  • Atlanta Bass-Sulpizio would save The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

What book would you save?


Photo credit: Lorri Sulpizio, Ph.D., P'21 '23 '26 '29


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