Over the last month in our third-grade Spanish immersion classroom, we have been learning about poetry and the different poetic devices we can find in some of the classics. One poet we took a look at was one of Spain's greatest poets of all time: Federico García Lorca. We listened to, read, acted, and recited some of the favorites and recorded these videos.
Upper School French students participated in Manie Musicale for the second year in a row. Manie Musicale is a French song competition started in 2017 by Stephanie Carbonneau and Michelle Fournier, two middle school French teachers from Maine. The goal of Manie Musicale is to increase student engagement in the French language, expand their cultural knowledge, and improve their French skills using popular songs.
Students in the AP Spanish Language & Culture course read the novel Como agua para chocolate (Like water for chocolate) by Mexican author, Laura Esquivel. After reading the novel in Spanish, students created and self-published a website to summarize, analyze, and teach the novel, which included character biographies, character diaries, cooking demonstrations, teaching/study suggestions, a graphic version of the novel, and more.
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