Pleasant Hill wins District 15's first Battle of the Books

Teams from five District 15 elementary schools competed in the final round of the District’s inaugural Battle of the Books on April 30, and, when the points were all tallied, the team from Pleasant Hill School had emerged victorious.

Members of Pleasant Hill’s Battle of the Books team are sixth graders Sarah Jones and Linfei Li, fourth graders Swathy Karthikeyan and Flora Zheng, and third graders Alex Kim and Andrew Saxe.

The Battle of the Books program is a new enrichment program that the District has piloted this year at Winston Campus Elementary and Central Road, Pleasant Hill, Hunting Ridge, and Marion Jordan Schools. From among those five schools, a total of 278 students in the third through sixth grades participated in the program. Next year, the contest will be expanded to include any other District 15 elementary school interested in participating.

The Battle of the Books began in November when students interested in participating in the program were placed into teams of five to seven 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 April 30 pit the winning teams against each other in another four-round contest that crowned Pleasant Hill as District 15’s champion first Battle of the Books champion. In all, 31 students participating in the final contest.

-Story Submitted by Community Consolidated School District 15