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Junior Schools Compete in Battle of the Books
02/16/2019
Gentry Junior School participated in the recent Battle of the Books, a reading competition among all five Goose Creek CISD junior schools. Gentry’s seventh-grade team placed third, and the eighth-grade team won second place. Pictured are seventh-graders (front, from left) Nathan Johnson, Gurveen Wahla, Dylan Davis and Trinity Pollard, and eighth-graders (back, from left) Leah Grimaldo, Sergio Cisneros, Alejandro Ojeda, Jonathan Reid and Evelinn Gutierrez. The teams were sponsored by Beth Ferguson, Gentry librarian.

Photo by Carrie Pryor-Newman

 

Gentry Junior School participated in the recent Battle of the Books, a reading competition among all five Goose Creek CISD junior schools. Gentry’s seventh-grade team placed third, and the eighth-grade team won second place. Pictured are seventh-graders (front, from left) Nathan Johnson, Gurveen Wahla, Dylan Davis and Trinity Pollard, and eighth-graders (back, from left) Leah Grimaldo, Sergio Cisneros, Alejandro Ojeda, Jonathan Reid and Evelinn Gutierrez. The teams were sponsored by Beth Ferguson, Gentry librarian.

 

 

Kaelob Schuelzky, a sixth-grader at Highlands Junior School, concentrates on the title of a book during the Battle of the Books held at Horace Mann Junior School. All five junior schools participated in the event.

Photo by Carrie Pryor-Newman

 

Kaelob Schuelzky, a sixth-grader at Highlands Junior School, concentrates on the title of a book during the Battle of the Books held at Horace Mann Junior School. All five junior schools participated in the event.

 

 

Highlands Junior School’s eighth-grade Battle of the Books team placed first at the district competition. Pictured are (from left) Cody Beck, Harsh Agrawal, Arin Sood, Amy Chen, Brook Schrull and Nicole Lemus. The seventh-grade team also placed first. The teams were sponsored by Joann Massony, substitute librarian.

Photo by Carrie Pryor-Newman

 

Highlands Junior School’s eighth-grade Battle of the Books team placed first at the district competition. Pictured are (from left) Cody Beck, Harsh Agrawal, Arin Sood, Amy Chen, Brook Schrull and Nicole Lemus. The seventh-grade team also placed first. The teams were sponsored by Joann Massony, substitute librarian.

 

 

By: Susan Passmore

 

All five Goose Creek CISD junior schools competed in the recent Battle of the Books, a reading-incentive program aimed at introducing new genres, series and authors to students. Led by campus librarians, the competition requires teams to answer questions about the books from their assigned reading lists. Following a school meet, the winning team in each grade level advances to the district meet.

 

In the district Battle of the Books, sixth-grade teams took home the following awards: Baytown Junior School (BJS), first place; Horace Mann Junior School (HMJ), second place; Highlands Junior School (HJS), third place; Gentry Junior School (GJS), fourth place and Cedar Bayou Junior School (CBJ), fifth place.

 

In the seventh-grade competition, awards were given to HJS, first place; CBJ second place; GJS, third place; BJS, fourth place and HMJ, fifth place. In the eighth-grade competition, winners were HJS, first place; GJS, second place; CBJ, third place; HMJ, fourth place and BJS, fifth place.

 

“Every team that made the district meet had to beat out other teams at their school, so it was an honor to participate in Battle of the Books,” said Janie West, Baytown Junior librarian. “There were 15 books on the reading list for each grade, so each team split them up. It took quite a bit of preparation, and we’re proud of everyone for representing their schools in this competition.”