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Students Participate in Poetry Out Loud
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TMCC High Schoo'ls Poetry Out Loud winner, Jordan Sliter, with English teacher, Kathleen O'Brien.
On Friday, December 16th, 2011 five students participated in TMCC High School’s Poetry Out Loud competition. Four judges from the community selected Jordan Sliter as the winner and Rachelanne Williams as runner-up. Judges were Nancy Cummings, Angie Flynn, 2010 TMCC High School grad, Candace Goodman, and the esteemed Poet Laureate, Shaun Griffin.
Poetry Out Loud is a program sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation. It requires students to fully understand poems and poets through memorization and performance.
The Esteemed Poet Laureate, Shaun Griffin, judging the competition.
Judges looked for Physical Presence, Voice and Articulation, Dramatic Appropriateness, Level of Difficulty of the Poem and Evidence that the student understands the poem. TMCC High School English teacher’s, Launie Gardner and Kathleen O’Brien, selected finalists from their classes and assisted students with memorization and recitation techniques. Most importantly, teachers had been showing students how to analyze and understand the significance of the poem. Why did they do this? O’Brien responded:
“Poetry’s amazing. It’s an art and I think it’s a lot easier for people to appreciate visual art and they tend to be intimidated by poetry. I just hope that if people could spend a little time with poetry… it enriches part of their life and I think that’s worth something. To engage meaningfully with something beautiful…”
As a result of this competition, Launie Gardner expects “people to get more exposed to poetry and by doing so, they’ll enjoy it more. Poetry Out Loud itself will grow out of what we’re doing in our classroom so that those students who perform the highest in class would want to be part in the competition.”
The winner, Jordan Sliter, will go on to compete in the regional competition, and will hopefully go on to compete in state and national too!
The recitation was coordinated by Jill Berryman, president of the Nevada Alliance for Arts Education, which oversees the POL competition and the Scholastic Writing Awards statewide.