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Zach Bennett is regional winner in Ga. Young Author competition
Zach's winn ing story entitled "The Great White Shark" was written and entered in the competition during his kindergarten school year. Entries are rated according to engagement, informative and/ or imaginative, flavor, originality, word choice, focus (relevance, coherence, and movement,) capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and word usage. Writing entries must be original work completed independently at school. Zach's writing won initially at the classroom level, then the school level, followed by the county level, and finally at the district level. Zach was recognized as the McDuffie County winner at the kindergarten level at a meeting of the Board of Education. He will be recognized as the CSRA RESA District Winner for kindergarten at the October 11 meeting of the McDuffie County Board of Education. The CSRA RESA serves Burke, Columbia, Emanuel, Glascock, Jefferson, Jenkins, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond, Taliaferro, Warren, and Wilkes counties. The purpose of the Young Georgia Authors Competition is to encourage students to develop writing that represents their best efforts, provide a context for schools to support and celebrate the writing successes of all students, and to encourage and recognize student achievement in writing throughout Georgia. All students enrolled in Georgia public schools, kindergarten through twelfth grade, may participate in the system in which they are enrolled, however, only one entry per grade level may be submitted to the state competition.
Zach is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Don Potts, Rose Lunceford Bennett, and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bennett, all of Washington. He is the great-grandson of Mrs. Alliene Lunceford of Washington and Mrs. Hazel Powell of Dublin.
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