March Madness Vocab Tourney Declares Winners

The annual March Madness Heads Up Tournament was held in 7th and 8th grade English this week with teacher Carolyn Warhaftig. Using teams of two, competing pairs move through the brackets like in basketball. Similar to "Heads Up," students must give their partner a definition and the partner must guess the word from the class list of over 50 vocabulary words. The most correct words in a minute wins. Teams play several rounds to get to the Final Four! After a lively couple of final rounds this week, the champion teams for each grade were declared.  Congratulations to our final four teams (eventual champs in bold): 7th grade: Julian S + Finn E, Dev F + Aurelia, Zoey T + Henry F, Jackson L + Quinten S; 8th grade: Libby E + Sydney G, Peter D + Lila L, Lennon L + Emory B, Sophie M + Levie F! If you're wondering how you would do, check out some of the words - 7th grade words included euphemism, ostensibly, pejorative, and nascent; 8th grade words included pernicious, taciturn, ignominious, and castigate.