{"id":3703,"date":"2015-06-08T20:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T20:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=3703"},"modified":"2015-06-08T20:00:41","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T20:00:41","slug":"morgan-clark-wins-state-lfhs-lit-crit-team-takes-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=3703","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Clark Wins State; LFHS Lit Crit Team Takes Second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Fresnos High School senior Morgan Clark was crowned individual state champion at Texas UIL Academics Meet Tuesday at The University of Texas at Austin.<\/p>\n<p>Clark placed first among the 16 participants at the state meet.<\/p>\n<p>The LFHS Literary Criticism team finished second in the team competition by four points in its third straight trip to the state meet. The team of Clark, Brianna Garcia, Emilie Kitterman and Whitney Ortiz took first place at the UIL Region IV Academics Meet in April.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3704\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/150526-UIL-Lit-Crit.jpg\" alt=\"150526-UIL-Lit-Crit\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/150526-UIL-Lit-Crit.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/150526-UIL-Lit-Crit-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/150526-UIL-Lit-Crit-405x203.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Garcia won the regional championship medal for the second straight year. Clark finished second and Kitterman fourth to receive medals as well.<br \/>\n\u201cIt was nerve-wracking to the end,\u201d said UIL Coordinator Jan Lester. \u201cThis group will have a bond that will last forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The LFHS \u201cLit Critters\u201d won the 2014 state championship, with Garcia, Ortiz, Kitterman and Victoria Cavazos, who graduated in 2014. In 2013, LFHS finished fourth in state, and Garcia was a member of that team as a sophomore.<\/p>\n<p>Repeating as state champs is expected to be a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The Literary Criticism event is a marathon multiple-choice and essay test comprised of in-depth Literary History, trivia and questions from an intimidating reading list.<\/p>\n<p>The four LFHS scholars discussed literature on a whole into the literary world memorizing terms, internalizing literacy movements and philosophical concepts. A typical question bantered about in practice might be \u201cIs that a symploce, anadiplosis, or epanalepsis?<\/p>\n<p>Also participating at the state meet was Kendall House, who was one of 12 finalists competing in the Barbara Jordan essay competition Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Fresnos High School senior Morgan Clark was crowned individual state champion at Texas UIL Academics Meet Tuesday at The University of Texas at Austin. Clark placed first among the 16 participants at the state meet. The LFHS Literary Criticism team finished second in the team competition by four points in its third straight trip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lfcisd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3705,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions\/3705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}