Wednesday, March 12, 2003
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Wednesday, March 12, 2003 |
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Landmark student is perfect Wordmaster Landmark Christian School sixth-grader Joel Christian recently won highest honors in this year's WordMaster Challenge, a national language arts competition entered by over 250,000 students annually. Competing in the difficult Blue Division of the Challenge, Christian earned a perfect score in the year's first meet. Nationwide, only 20 sixth-graders did so. Landmark's Wordmaster students were supervised in preparation for the Challenge by LeLe Longsdorf. The WordMaster Challenge is an exercise in critical thinking which first encourages students to become familiar with a set of interesting words (considerably harder than grade level), and then challenges them to use those words to complete analogies expressing various kinds of relationships. Working to solve the Challenge analogies helps students learn to think both analytically and metaphorically. The WordMaster Challenge has been administered for the past 16 years by a company based in Allendale, New Jersey, which is dedicated to inspiring high achievement in American schools. Joel is the second Landmark Christian School sixth-grader to achieve a perfect score in the past few years.
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