2021 Poetry Recitation Contest

First Place – Junior High
Catherine Cruz (6th Grade)
“Friends, Romans, countrymen”
by William Shakespeare

First Place – 4th & 5th Grade
Riley Woodson (4th Grade)
“Falling Asleep in Class”
by Kenn Nesbitt

First Place (tie) – 2nd & 3rd Grade
Amelia Inoa-Kessler (2nd Grade)
“The Owl and the Pussycat”
by Edward Lear

Second Place (tie) – 2nd & 3rd Grade
Mandy Klein (3rd Grade)
“Medal of St. Benedict”
Author Unknown

First Place (tie) – TK, K, & 1st Grade
Basti Manalo (K)
Third Place – TK, K, & 1st Grade
Eliza Pineda (K)

“The Boy Who Never Told a Lie”
Author Unknown

Second Place – Junior High
Emily Ashlock (7th Grade)
“The Gettysburg Address”
by Abraham Lincoln

Second Place – 4th & 5th Grade
Lucy Cruz (5th Grade)
“Block City”
by Robert Louis Stevenson

First Place (tie) –2nd & 3rd Grade
Ariatza Villaruel (3rd Grade)
“Elmer the Flying Monk”
by Paul Perro

Third Place –2nd & 3rd Grade
Miguel Gonzalez (2nd Grade)
The Book of Deuteronomy
Chapter 6, Verses 4-5

Third Place – Junior High
Peter Aguilar (8th Grade)
“God’s Grandeur”
by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Third Place – 4th & 5th Grade
Angela Escolar-Chua (5th Grade)
“The Cross in My Pocket”
by Verna Mae Thomas

Second Place (tie) –2nd & 3rd Grade
Dominic Cruz (2nd Grade)
The Gospel of John
Chapter 1, Verses 1-14

First Place (tie) – TK, K, & 1st Grade
Mary Elizabeth Weir (1st Grade)
“An Age of Marvelous Myths”
by Marilyn Singer

First Place (tie) – TK, K, & 1st Grade
Sena Abo & Anthony Macias (TK)
Second Place – TK, K, & 1st Grade
Adonis Hernandez (TK)

“All Things Bright and Beautiful”
by Cecil Frances Alexander

Finalists

Ronaldo Huerta (8th Grade)
Sarah Byng, Who Could Not Read and Was Tossed into a Thorny Hedge by a Bull
by Hillaire Belloc

Samantha Bautista,
Diana Martinez, &
Ramon Medina (1st Grade)
“An Age of Marvelous Myths”
by Marilyn Singer

Luis Chavez (7th Grade)
“O Captain! My Captain!”
by Walt Whitman

Zoe Cruz  (K)
“The Boy Who Never Told a Lie”
Author Unknown

Matilda Gonzalez (6th Grade)
“Love” (III)
by George Herbert

Pablo Castaneda & Neema Wafula  (TK)
“All Things Bright and Beautiful”
by Cecil Frances Alexander

Robbie Manalo (5th Grade)
“Battle Hymn of the Republic”
by Julia Ward Howe