Ward Melville High School juniors Adity Sampath and Katelyn Winter have been recognized by the National Council of Teachers of English for their superior writing submissions to the NCTE’s annual Achievement Awards in Writing contest. For the contest, the students submitted timed writing prose pieces following the theme of a “Personal Mount Rushmore” as well as a sample of their best writing from their writing portfolios. For the timed piece, the students had to select four individuals who have had a profound and inspirational effect on their lives and represent their personal ideals. Adity’s timed piece focused on the role music has in her life and those individuals associated with her musical passion. Katelyn’s piece focused on her family, in particular her mother and three aunts. The students’ completed submissions were judged by a national panel and were found to have demonstrated effective and imaginative use of language to inform and move an audience. According to its official website, the NCTE’s Achievement Awards in Writing is a school-based writing program established in 1957 to encourage high school students in their writing and to publicly recognize some of the best student writers in the nation.
