Sage Park Middle School Students Named State Winners in Nationwide Writing Contest

The Neag School of Education has announced Connecticut’s winners of the 2017 CT state Letters about Literature contest, a nationwide writing contest sponsored by the Library of Congress for elementary, middle, and high school students

Sage Park Middle School students Hope McCann (Out of My Mind, by Sharon Draper) won first place and Araya Miller (The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak) took second place in the Level II (grades 7-8) division for their award winning letters.

The Letters about Literature competition asks students to read a book, poem or speech and write to the author (living or dead) about how the book affected them personally. Letters are judged on state and national levels. Tens of thousands of students from across the country enter Letters about Literature each year.

This year, 261 letters were submitted in the Middle Grade division from the State of Connecticut. Sage Park Middle School was recognized with eight of 55 state finalists, and then awarded first and second place winners for the state competition.

Hope McCann's award-winning letter has now advanced to the national level of the competition.

About Windsor Public Schools:
Windsor Public Schools serves nearly 4,000 students in the community of Windsor, Connecticut, a town located in north central Connecticut between Hartford and Springfield, Massachusetts. Windsor Public Schools is comprised of six schools: Oliver Ellsworth School, Poquonock School, Clover Street School, John F. Kennedy School, Sage Park Middle School, and Windsor High School. The mission of Windsor Public Schools is to develop the genius in every child and to create life-long learners. For more information about the Windsor Board of Education and any of its schools, please visit www.windsorct.org.