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May 1, 2006
WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY TO HOLD POETRY RECITATION CONTEST ON MAY 18
William Paterson University’s Department of Languages and Cultures will hold its 23rd Annual Poetry Recitation Contest on Thursday, May 18, 2006, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Shea Center for Performing Arts on the campus in Wayne. Close to 1,000 students from middle schools and high schools in northern and central New Jersey are scheduled to participate in the event.
The contest provides students with the opportunity to recite poetry in French, German, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Spanish, and English as a second language. Students recite, from memory, poetry by well-known authors and are judged on delivery, pronunciation, intonation, and poise. The competition is held on four levels—beginner, intermediate, advanced, and native—in each language, with the exception of Latin and ESL, for which there is no native level. Trophies are awarded for first place, second place, third place, and honorable mention in each category.
Participating schools include: Abraham Clark High School; Academies at Englewood; Academy of St. Elizabeth; Barnstable Academy; Bayonne High School; Bergen County Technical School; Bergenfield High School; Bernards High School; Cliffside Park High School; Clifton High School; County Prep High School; Cresskill Junior/Senior High School; Don Bosco Prep High School; Dwight Morrow High School; East Hanover Middle School; Fair Lawn High School; Fort Lee High School; Frisch High School; Harrison High School; Hawthorne High School; High Tech. High School; Jefferson Township High School; Kearny High School; Lakeland Regional High School; Leonia High School; Lincoln Park Middle School; Madison High School; Montclair High School; Morris Knolls High School; Morristown High School; Mother Seton Regional High School; Mt. Olive High School; North Bergen High School; Northern Valley Regional High School-Demarest; Northern Valley Regional High School-Old Tappan; Oak Knoll School; Orange High School; Palisades Park Jr./Sr. High School; Paramus Catholic High School; Pascack Hills High School; Pascack Valley High School; Passaic County Technical Institute; Passaic High School; The Pennington School; Pompton Lakes High School; Purnell School; Randolph High School; Rahway High School; Ridge High School; Ridgefield Park Jr./Sr. High School; Ridgewood High School; Roy W. Brown Middle School; Rutherford High School; Saddle River Day School; St. Dominic Academy; Secaucus High School; Secaucus Middle School; Solomon Schechter Day School; South Hunterdon Regional High School; Summit High School; Tenafly High School; Union High School; University High School; Vernon High School; Villa Walsh Academy; West Essex Regional High School; and Westfield High School.
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