Upper School French Students Awarded
	Upper School French Students Awarded for Performance in Poetry Contest
	Felicitations to the East Woods French students in Seventh – Ninth Grade selected to participate in a French Poetry Competition, sponsored by the AATF (American Association of Teachers of French), and held on April 17th at Sanford H. Calhoun High School in Merrick, New York. Under the guidance of their teacher, Madame Martine Tawaji, the East Woods students entered two competition categories: Recitation and Original Poetry. For Recitation, the students were expected to memorize a poem appropriate to their level of study. The evaluation criteria were pronunciation, intonation, poise, interpretation and level of appropriateness. For Original Poetry, students were judged on the basis of originality, usage of French and poetic quality. Recognition awards consisted of first and second prize and three honorable mentions for each grade division and competition category.   POETRY CONTEST 2011  6thGrade  Riley Hughes: Third Distinction Recitation  7thGrade  John Henry Hanson:S econd Place Recitation  Kelsey Dobler: First Distinction Native Speaker Original Poetry Recitation  Tori Douglas: Second Place Original Poetry Recitation  Madalyn Prince: First Place Original Poetry Recitation  Alexander Sheeline: Third Distinction Original Poetry Recitation  Adele Sukhov: Second Distinction Recitation  Luke Doyle: First Place Recitation  8thGrade  Matthew Cebulski: Second Distinction Recitation  9thGrade Jiwon Lee: First Distinction Recitation Samantha Antoine: First Distinction  Native Speaker Recitation