Two Virgin Islands eighth graders, both students at Addelita Cancryn Junior High School, have won recognition for their writing ability from the National Council of Teachers of English.
Sadiqua Chinnery and Jennell Todman were among 291 students recognized nationwide in the 2000 Promising Young Writers program. A total of 1,051 eighth-grade students in the United States, Canada and American schools abroad participated in the program.
Students nominated by their eighth-grade English teachers competed by writing impromptu essays and submitting other samples of their work. A panel of teachers at the state level judged the papers on content, purpose, audience, tone, word choice, organization, development and style.
The 77,000-member national council is dedicated to improving the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at all levels of education.
