June
8, 2017
This year is a wrap! Thanks for all the
resources that many have shared. Below is some year-end news. There are also
resources and PD opportunities to explore over the summer. This newsletter is archived at http://polyglotpress.blogspot.com/
Best Wishes
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Fo Roldán, currently at Monroe
Middle and previously at Porter Ridge High, is retiring to golf courses and
time in Colombia.
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Bon
voyage and best wishes to Sun Valley French teacher, Yseult Bougyues, who is returning to Paris after three years as a
VIF / Participate teacher.
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Gute
Fahrt to Marvin Ridge HS German teacher, Leah
Smith, who is joining the Peace Corps.
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Congratulations
to Daniel Sellner on the birth of
his second daughter, Hope. Best wishes also to Daniel Sellner who is transferring to Marvin Ridge High to teach
German. Daniel has lead classes and German clubs at Cuthbertson and Weddington
High the last five years while moving books, classrooms, décor and materials
every other semester.
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Best
wishes to Rosana Gonzales as she
leaves South Providence School for Carmel Middle School in CMS.
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Best
wishes to Morgann Lyles who leaves
French teaching at Porter Ridge High for future endeavors.
Bravo
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Congratulations!
Spanish teacher Amanda Mancilla of
Central Academy just completed her Masters of Education in Teaching English to Speakers of other
Languages (MEd TESOL) at
UNC-Charlotte.
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Congratulations
to Neal Nelson from Parkwood HS who
has passed NC DPI ASW training as a reviewer for summer 2017.
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Mandarin
teachers, Xiaohong HuMueller from
MRHS and Shannon Du from CHS/WHS
recently chaperoned 21 students competing in the Asian Festival’s Dragon Boat
Races. The team won the high school division once again taking home metals for
all. This dragon boat races includes teams from out-of-state and often from
Canada. Mark your calendar for next year if you have not ever attended. Mandarin
teacher Xiaohong HuMueller and Spanish
teacher Fernando Flores, both from
Marvin Ridge HS, jumped aboard the
21 person boat and helped the HS team to victory this year. http://www.charlottedragonboat.com/
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Sherry Edwards at Piedmont HS hosted a
16 year old guest speaker and exchange student from Toulouse, France in her
French 2 class to speak to students.
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Sherry Edwards has also been accepted
to the 2017 NCAE Instructional Leadership Institute!
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Yadiraliz Hawks’ Spanish students
performed a Mexican and a Colombian dance on Cinco the mayo for each lunch in
the courtyard at Monroe HS.
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Soledad Townsend and Dennise Nelson’s Spanish 1 students
from Parkwood and East Union Middle School, respectively, have been writing
(paper letters) to each other this year at the end of each chapter. Soon, they
will meet for the first time face-to-face when the students share a field trip
to the Mint Museum on Randolph Road to see the Pre-Colombian artifacts from
Latin America and eat at the Cuban restaurant A Piece of Havana.
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Juliet Kasler has found a gamified
curriculum for Latin instruction at Porter Ridge HS. UCPS Tech Services has
approved the resource Operation Lapis for 2017-2018!
Professional
Development
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Online – Find your own group to
explore language teaching, find resources, share ideas and ask questions.
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iFLTA / NTPRS / CI
Teaching group on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/groups/IFLTNTPRSCITEACHING/
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Teachers of Spanish
Heritage Speakers group on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/groups/942240065921862/
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August 14-15 “The
European Union Today: the EU as a Global and Local Actor” and “The European
Union Citizen: Issues Facing the Contemporary European.” The Center for
European Studies will be hosting two-day study tours on UNC-Chapel Hill’s
campus open to K-12 educators. This
includes meetings, discussions, and interactive sessions with faculty experts
on European and EU studies as well as with practitioners in the Triangle.
Additional sessions will be held on integrating content learned into the
classroom. Participants will be able to receive certification of two continuing
education credits and approximately 20 hours of professional development
provided they complete the post-tour lesson plan and module creation. Hotel
accommodations and some meals will be provided to selected applicants for the
nights of the conference – recipients will be contacted with more details if
selected. Deadline to apply: May 15 http://europe.unc.edu/eu-in-nc
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October 20-21,2017 FLANC
Fall Conference 2017 "Lighting Pathways To Proficiency" Durham,
NC http://www.flanc.org/fall-conference
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From
SCOLT 2017 How Youth Learn: Ned's
GR8 8 – YouTube 6:12 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_BskcXTqpM
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NC DPI World Language
Teacher opportunities and scholarships http://wlnces.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/WLEdOpps
Technology
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Amanda Mancilla recommends Google TourBuilder. Students could build a tour
of places in the community https://goo.gl/BknuSZ
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Google Cast for
Education
permits students to stream from their computer
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Mary K Thomas’s Piedmont HS Spanish students
are using "voice to text" on
their Chromebooks dictating sentences into their computers. Mary incorporated
this into group work and gallery walks.
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Mary K Thomas shares scribble maps for Spanish 2 Chapter 3
giving directions for getting around the community. https://www.scribblemaps.com This site would work
well with French 2 Chapter 2: Asking and Giving Directions, also. You can go to
the address for your school, to a university across the world and many other
locations.
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Culturally Authentic
Pictorial Lexicon
Find images of authentic products from numerous languages and cultures. All
images are labeled as Common Sense media and can be used for free but must the
source must be sited. http://capl.washjeff.edu/browse.php
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Mentimeter.com Create visually
engaging data gathering tools in which students provide opinions, answers, etc.
https://www.mentimeter.com Responses can be displayed as word clouds, bar
graphs, etc.
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Dr. Houlihan recommended UCPS
teachers look at this Technology
Integration Matrix https://fcit.usf.edu/matrix/matrix/
Pedagogy for WL
Classes
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How to Circle, How to
Check for Comprehension, How to Ask A Story https://martinabex.com/teacher-training/essential-strategies-for-tprsci-teachers/
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Try BreakOutEdu and simulate the
popular breakout games but in another language! players work collaboratively to
solve a series of critical thinking puzzles in order to open a locked box. https://games.breakoutedu.com/high
French Resources
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Seterra Map Quiz game –
French-Speaking Countries http://online.seterra.com/en/vgp/3210 Thanks to Sherry
Edwards at Piedmont HS for sharing.
Mandarin Resources
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Calligraphy YouTube Videoclips (shared by Fan Hong from
Kensington ES)
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水 Water https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhrDe3AFmHo&list=PLDMOORgerrtPGyw88XOcuvuQRTj9mxgfv&index=37
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国外超赞生动汉字教学 Vivid Teaching of Chinese Characters YouTube video 10:35
minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbz_g6Kr7D4
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Mnemonics to Learn
Chinese Characters & Radicals – includes audio, http://www.chi.guru/learningchinesecharactersradicalspicturestoriesmnemonicsvocabulary/chafil36/368251.php
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100 Most Common
Radicals:
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Cram.com 3-sided flash
cards
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Clone
a set and customize it for your classroom. Download to MS Excel.
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Export
to Google Drive - Set 1 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YuLZzVgaH2Uh7mGyeQOQK9qsmiDYBKSUluUeWf1ldXs/edit#gid=298563619
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Export
to Google Drive – Set 2 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15atFtTRv7U5pvOFZex5ksMiutpHvaD2sqWPaFy4XCd8/edit#gid=692138841
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Chi.Guru.com - Radical
Study http://www.chi.guru/learningchineseradicalslinedrawingsmeanings/01strokes/19968.php
Spanish Resources
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Seterra Map Quiz Game – Spanish-Speaking Countries http://online.seterra.com/en/vgp/3153 Thanks to Sherry Edwards at Piedmont HS for sharing.
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Seterra Map Quiz Game –
Spanish-Speaking Countries and Capitals http://online.seterra.com/en/vgp/3160 Thanks to Sherry Edwards at Piedmont HS for sharing.
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Mafia card game https://martinabex.com/2015/04/16/mafia-the-tci-game-of-all-games/ Thanks to Adam Brown at Weddington HS for sharing this game
that focuses on comprehensible input. He uses it in Spanish 2 for practicing
the preterite tense.
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El español en Estados Unidos YouTube Video en español 2:08
minutos
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La feria de Sevilla en abril http://www.spain.info/en/que-quieres/agenda/fiestas/sevilla/feria_de_abril.html Vista Sevilla http://www.visitasevilla.es
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Yabla en español
o Acentuación Parte 3: La división en sílabas https://spanish.yabla.com/player_cdn.php?tlang_id=en&id=11032
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Todo Ele - Todoele.net es un espacio creado por
y para profesores de español como lengua extranjera donde puedes encontrar
información, materiales y recursos para la enseñanza del español. http://todoele.net/
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Flooding in Perú - Peruvian Tania Monsalve from Sun Valley High
School shared that a Peruvian artist, Gianmarco, is going to record a very
popular song to help the victims of Peru.
The name of the song is Hoy and is dedicated to Peru. Gloria
Estefan has a video of this song in YouTube. Hoy Remix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mCOH9SAUS0&list=RD4mCOH9SAUS0 Hoy letra / lyrics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKGaUPrjiVk and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAay4DZX67E
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Spanish 2 - Hoy Desperté
Katie Perry song Wide Awake in Spanish https://estudiafeliz.com/2013/02/24/song-activity-hoy-desperte-kevin-karla-y-la-banda-spanish-version-of-katy-perrys-wide-awake-el-preterito/ used lots of completed past tense preterite verbs. Lyrics
https://estudiafeliz.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/hoja-hoy-despertc3a9-kklb-pretc3a9rito.pdf Thanks to Adam Brown for this song also.
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Spanish 2-3 Song Siempre Supe with worksheets and pointers on how to use in a lesson. http://profehanson.weebly.com/blog/kevin-karla-y-la-banda
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Spanish 2 – Giving Directions
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Mary Thomas from Piedmont High
School has activity for teaching tú commands using technology and giving and
understanding directions. http://bit.ly/Spa23BDirections
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Spanish 2 – Capítulo 4A
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El mundo de juguetes
(Authentic Resources) http://www.elmundodeljuguete.com.ar/ Compare prices for Argentine and imported toys. Compare
toys Argentine students have now with those you had as a child. Convert prices
in Argentine pesos to US dollars http://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/?From=USD&To=ARS
o Bebé de juguete: La bebé muñeca Ariel come y duerme
con los juguetes de bebés Compara lo que hace este bebé con lo que comían y
bebían tus muñecos. YouTube video 6:47 minutos en español. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfbjr0RfWU8
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Fidget Spinners BBC Mundo video http://www.bbc.com/mundo/media-39876210?ocid=socialflow_twitter and activities by Martina Bex free reading Los Fidget Spinners: ¿Solución o Problema? https://martinabex.com/2017/05/12/los-fidget-spinners-free-reading-in-spanish-and-authres-activities/
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Spanish 2 – referencing the imperfect tense comían with how food consumption has changed over time. What the
world eats http://www.nationalgeographic.com/what-the-world-eats/
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Medical Spanish 2 - Spanish in the Medical Field YouTube video in English and Spanish 23:52 minutes. Good for individual review prior to
the final. Skip some parts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koLUGJ6Hciw
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Medical Spanish 2 - Learn Spanish - Basic Vocabulary - Parts
of the body YouTube video 6:03 minutes Good for
individual review prior to the final. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0ZRlzyICQI
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Medical Spanish and Spanish 3 - 10 Phrases Every Nurse
Should Know in Spanish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-tRCm0jA0M
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Spanish 3 – Tik Tak Draw Videos about artists
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Spanish 3 - 20 Minutos
–Great articles of interest for Level 3 and above: Includes audio of the reading. Thanks to
Dennise Nelson of East Union MS for sharing.
http://www.veintemundos.com/en/library/
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AP Spanish – Technology Theme
o La Historia de Minecraft in video Tik Tak Draw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJLZU_q1fgc
