Kids Lit Quiz Club in Competition
The six members of the Kids Lit Quiz Club headed to the Toronto-wide competition for a day of high energy literary trivia. Greenwood’s team has four competing members, and two student members who came to cheer the team on.
It was the day they have been preparing for all year. The Kids Lit Quiz Club meets weekly at lunch. They run practices for the competition and discuss areas of strength and weakness in their reading, and strategies to improve.
While it may be a competition, the members of the Kids Lit Quiz Club are driven first and foremost by a love of reading, and this is what guides the meetings. Mr. Findlay, who runs the club, provides book recommendations both to help them prepare for the competition, and to broaden their reading habits. He highlights books they can easily sign out from the Learning Commons.
The team approached the event with fun in mind. Competition organizers encouraged literary themed costumes, so the whole team dressed up as characters from the Archie comics. With their group costume, they looked like a team, and they certainly played like one too!
They brought their literary trivia A-game to the competition. They were up against 94 other teams from schools all throughout Toronto. By pooling their literary knowledge, they managed to finish with a final score of 78.5, which placed them in the Top 10 for the city. It was a satisfying result after a year’s worth of practice.
This year’s competition may be over, but the Kids Lit Quiz Club is already thinking about what to read in time for next year. The Golden Compass, anyone?
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Tel: 416 482 9811
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