THANK YOU for your interest in judging poetry this year!
Please know how much we appreciate your help. Kudos and thanks to Rockville High School for hosting our contest on April 3, 2019! CT-COLT looks forward to working with Poetry Host Eliza Gonzalez! For our 2019 contest --
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Preliminary schedule for Judges
2:30 pm Parking Lot opens 2:30 pm - 2:55 pm Registration/Reception 2:55 pm - 3:20 pm Welcome; Q&A 3:20 pm Judges go for contests 3:30 pm Recitations begin 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm Judging sheets due Please stay for refreshments after turning in your scores! Judges are also welcomed at the 5:30 pm Awards Ceremony in the Auditorium! ------------------------------------------------------ Helpful Links - Rockville High School website - 2019 Judging Rubric - ESOL/ELL LAS-Link guidelines - 2018 List of Medalists! Congrats to all! |
- Click here for the 2019 Judging Rubric (includes scoring tips and disqualification rules)
- Teachers are urged to share this rubric with their students: judges have commented that some contestants had never seen the elements on which they would be assessed.
- The rubric includes a 1-3 point addition for difficulty level for tie-breakers, since not all languages have approved slates.
- Be aware that some students decline to recite if they have prepared poems recited well by others in the contest room. This situation arose even before COLT adopted slates, but is more pronounced in contests with particularly popular poems.Accordingly, please inspire your students to be extra-prepared and extra-confident!
- Please remind students that they are to recite -- not sing or act -- their poems to avoid disqualification.
- ESOL poetry will be judged according to LAS-Links guidelines. To view the chart, just select first icon -- View in Full Screen -- at the bottom of the graphic.
- For other registration information, please consult the 2019 Poetry Contest Registration Materials.
The 2019 Slates of Poems
- The SLATES (or Poem Lists) are listed below in BOLD at the left. For example, click on "FRENCH SLATE" for the French poem list.
- To download the texts themselves, just click on a language level, such as "MS 1" or "HS Heritage Speaker", for the appropriate PDF.
- CT COLT is aware of the many variants of poetry, occurring most often when celebrated authors revised earlier works. If your student is preparing a variant of a text listed on a slate, just mail in 2 hard copies of this text for the judges' folders.
- ANCIENT GREEK: Middle School: MS 1, MS 2; High School: HS 1, HS 2, HS 3, HS 4, HS 5-6
- ARABIC SLATE: Middle School: MS 1, MS 2, MS Heritage Speaker; High School: HS 1, HS 2, HS 3, HS 4, HS 5-6, HS Heritage
- CHINESE SLATE: (Traditional Mandarin Characters) Middle School: MS 1, MS 2, MS Heritage Speaker; High School : HS 1, HS 2, HS 3, HS 4, HS 5-6, HS Heritage Speaker Please accept our apologies: some slates only offer Simplified text.
- CHINESE SLATE: (Simplified Mandarin Characters) Middle School: MS 1, MS 2, MS Heritage Speaker; High School : HS 1, HS 2, HS 3, HS 4, HS 5-6, HS Heritage Speaker
- ESOL SLATE: Middle School: High Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced; High School: High Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
- FRENCH SLATE: Middle School: MS 1, MS 2, MS Heritage Speaker; High School: HS 1, HS 2, HS 3, HS 4, HS 5-6, HS Heritage
- GERMAN SLATE: Middle School: MS 1, MS 2, MS Heritage Speaker; High School: HS 1, HS 2, HS 3, HS 4, HS 5-6, HS Heritage
- ITALIAN SLATE: Middle School: MS 1, MS 2, MS Heritage Speaker; High School: HS 1, HS 2, HS 3, HS 4, HS 5-6, HS Heritage
- LATIN SLATE: Middle School: MS 1, MS 2; High School: HS 1, HS 2, HS 3, HS 4, HS 5-6
- POLISH SLATE: Middle School: MS 1, MS 2, MS Heritage Speaker; High School: HS 1, HS 2, HS 3, HS 4, HS 5-6, HS Heritage
- PORTUGUESE SLATE: Middle School: MS 1, MS 2, MS Heritage Speaker; High School: HS 1, HS 2, HS 3, HS 4, HS 5-6, HS Heritage
- RUSSIAN SLATE: Middle School: MS 1, MS 2, MS Heritage Speaker; High School: HS 1, HS 2, HS 3, HS 4, HS 5-6, HS Heritage
- SPANISH SLATE: Middle School: MS 1, MS 2, MS Heritage Speaker; High School: HS 1, HS 2, HS 3, HS 4, HS 5-6, HS Heritage
Questions about judging? Please contact Elizabeth Lapman or John Rook, Co-Chairs of Poetry Judges. (Last update: 12.14.18)