Student’s Guide

‼️NEW PROCEDURE
About LIT Strong Words Contest online implementation

Dear partners, parents and participants,?

As we informed earlier, LIT Academy Board and Organizing Committee have made the decision to cancel all regional competitions planned for March 14th to April 11th, 2020. We based this decision on the current global coronavirus crisis (WHO pandemic declaration) and the risk of new outbreaks occurring after a recent increase in new confirmed cases in the Republic of Armenia.

However, to ensure the successful implementation of the competition in the current situation, the LIT Academy Board has developed a new alternative strategy, deciding to continue the LIT Strong Words Contest 2020 online.?

⁉️How will the contest be held?

Those participants who have not managed to post their performance in www.litcompete.net and those who posted but want to change their videos must send their new videos to tooyn.am/EKpv until March 22nd.

✔️From March 22th to April 2nd the judges will evaluate all participants’ performances and will choose 5 participants from each grade for each region (30 participants from each region) who will pass to the 2nd online stage.

✔️On April 5th we will announce the names of the students who passed to the 2nd stage as well as new poems/speeches that need to be learned for the 2nd stage. The poems/speeches for the 2nd stage and National final Contest will be the same and are different from the 1st stage poems.

The 2nd stage is also online. The participants will choose the poems/speeches, shoot a video and submit again for the evaluation till April 20th. Based on the evaluation results of the 2nd online stage, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd places winner participants will be selected for each class. The 1st place winner participants will be invited to take part in the National Final Contest which will be held on May 2nd in American University of Armenia(AUA). They will also receive a full scholarship for Summer School. The 2nd and the 3rd place participants will receive a 50% scholarship. We will additionally notify all the participants who will pass the 1st online stage about video submission and registration.

However, all the participants of “LIT Strong Words 2020” contest will be provided with official certificates. We will inform about the provisioning procedure additionally.

For the organisers of “LIT Strong Words” Contest, the health and safety of children are a top priority. All these decisions are made to prevent and exclude all possible risks.

We thank our partners, parents, participants and all stakeholders for understanding and cooperation.

To find out more about the news about the LIT contest, visit:
Web Site`www.litacademy.net, www.litcompete.net
Facebook page` LIT Strong Words Contest
Instagram page՝ www.instagram.com/litacademyarmenia
If you have any additional questions, please email [email protected] or call 077 23 17 11, 077 23 17 12.

CONTEST RULES

The Contest Rules for LIT Strong Words Contest (formerly National Poetry Recitation Contest) have been updated! Please review the revised rules for 2020 below.

PERFORMANCES FOR FORMS 7-12

This year’s contest theme is: Remembrance. To review a performance, go to its reading guide.

 

7th Form

• Summer Memories 
• A Belated Thank You to the Second Parents
• History Lesson
• A Ring of Memory
• Try to Remember
• Memories​

8th Form

• Memories (are like fire)
• Silver Fishies
• Mulberry Trees
• Poppy Fields Forever
• Fifth Grade Autobiography
• Dirty Face

9th Form

• Ode to Teachers
• The Coal Train (Childhood Memory)
• I Remember, I Remember
• Remember, Remember, the 5th of November
• When Some Day
• Excerpt from 8th Grade

10th Form

• The Way Through the Woods
• Piano
• The Road not taken
• In Memory of Anyone Unknown to Me
• First Men on the Moon
• Tom Joad’s I’ll be there speech to his mother

11th Form

• O Captain, My Captain
• What Everybody Knows Now
• Sweet memories of Childhood
• Serenade to my mother
• “Be Happy,” Speech of an Armenian Shopkeeper in Fresno
• Theme for English B

​12th Form

• Statement on the assasination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Try to Remember some Details
• Gettysburg Address
• Without Thee, What are song and dance to me
• Memory
• For the Fallen

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