Pleasant Hill wins back-to-back Battles of the Books
Teams from five District 15 elementary schools competed in the final round of the District's second annual Battle of the Books on Saturday, April 21, and, when the points were all tallied, the team from Pleasant Hill School had won the contest for the second consecutive year.
Members of Pleasant Hill's Battle of the Books team are sixth graders Abhinav Balu and Elsie Ha; fifth grader Flora Zheng; fourth grader Marisa Ban and Andrew Saxe; and third graders Stella Chung, Samuel Du, and Souvik Ghosh.
A total of 260 third- through sixth-grade students from five schools - Winston Campus Elementary and Central Road, Pleasant Hill, Hunting Ridge, and Marion Jordan Schools - participated in the program.
The Battle of the Books program is an enrichment program that began in November when students interested in participating in the contest were placed into teams of five to eight students. Each team had to work together to study 30 different books that they would be quizzed upon in April. From December through March, each team met a minimum of two times a month to prepare for the trivia contest, which was broken into four rounds of questions that determined the winning team at each school.
The final competition on Saturday, April 21, pit the winning teams against each other in another four-round contest that crowned Pleasant Hill as District 15's two-time defending Battle of the Books champion.
-- Story submitted by Community Consolidated School District 15