Article first posted in the Granite Educational Technology Blog - April 2018 by Josh Whiting

Battle of the Books 2018 – All Participants Panoramic Photo

Each team of 3-4 students engaged in three rounds of “Family Feud”-style competition in classrooms throughout the building, answering trivia questions taken from the fifteen books on the 2017-2018 Battle of the Books Reading List. After these round-robin competitions, all teams gathered in the cafagymatorium for prize drawings and to watch the four teams with the top average scores battle it out over two final rounds to determine the 3rd and 1st place winners.

If you are interested in seeing the two top teams in action (as well as how a round works) we have some slightly rough but complete video of the final round, in which the Truman Golden Dragons battled the Crestview Ladies in Reading, here:

Here are the Top 15 participating teams from this year’s competition:

RankTeam NameSchool

Bonus

We will be publishing the 2018-2019 reading lists soon, but here is a sneak peek —

We thank all the students who so enthusiastically read and practiced for this year’s competition, as well as parents, teachers, media clerks, and other coaches and volunteers who helped them along the way.

Special thanks to Nikki Gregerson, Elementary Library Media Specialist in the Educational Technology Department, who conceptualized and organized the Battle of the Books program for Granite School District and did much of the behind-the-scenes work to make the program a success. We also recognize special help from secretaries and assistants in the Educational Technology department, Trinda Burdett, Alyssa Carraway, Colleen Hughes, and Debbie Singer, that made the competition possible.