modern language

Students in the Latin American Art, Music, and Dance course recently were assigned a project choose a Latin American artist and represent that artist’s work in some way. One group chose to produce a video about Ecuadorian artist Ramon Piaguaje.

Students in Jen Sobel’s Spanish IV class recently completed their mural project. The activity asks groups of students to create a mural relating to current events. They must then develop a presentation in Spanish to explain their art to others. This year’s murals are posted below. (Click photos for larger images.)

In the spirit of the “restaurant wars” challenge on the hit TV show Top Chef, eighth grade students in Michelle Langwieder’s French 1B class created four restaurants vying for the best reviews from Beaver’s “celebrity” judges.
Ms. Langwieder describes the project:
My French 1B class has been busy at work creating their recipe projects, the final product [...]

Students in Jen Sobel’s elective “Spanish V: Art, Music, and Dance” don’t just learn the language, they learn the Spanish culture as well. For one project, a small group of students represented and reenacted one of Spanish painter Franciso Goya’s Capricho prints. The resulting video produced by seniors Joanna Georgakas, Emma Marshall and Rachel Maltz [...]

Beaver’s modern language department offers a unique class titled Spanish for Native Speakers. This course offers Spanish-speaking students the opportunity to study Spanish formally in an academic setting in the same way that native English-speaking students study English language arts. In this course students review grammar structures and develop academic vocabulary that will help them critically [...]