Francesca Fox Lauren Butler

Angie Mohanty Danielle Lorentz

Adrienne Chevalier Kinan Sawar

Juliette Patrylo Daniel Tolley

Daniel Sykes Rabab Isa

Louisa Arseneau Rachel Paull

Chloe Barratta Joseph Steinbock

Chardonnay Bennett Helen Lant

Anna Darling Samantha Goodale

Suza Del Rio Nick Ginsburg

Jessica Donvito Sierra Heckman

Kendall Jones Elizabeth Tolley

Foreign Language Day 2014:

This year at the Southern Illinois University Foreign Language Day, the French Scholar Bowl Team B beat Effingham 130 to 120 to take home the first place trophy. The competition tested French culture, vocabulary, and grammar knowledge. The team was led by Senior Elizabeth Tolley and in-cluded Seniors Nick Ginsburg, Sierra Heckman, and Emily Fink. The alternates were Seniors Jo-seph Steinbock and Rachel Paull. Juniors Chanchali Agrawal and Daniel Sykes also participated as alternates. Go Terriers!

National French Honors

Society:

This year marks the return of

National French Honors Society

to Carbondale Community High

School.

French News

German

SIU Foreign Language Day proved successful for Mrs. Lorinskas’ German scholar bowl students. The German team’s first opponent was Waterloo which they beat 160-140. The win advanced them to the championship round to face Teutopolis whom they defeated to win 1st place!!

C A R B O N D A L E C O M M U N I T Y H I G H S C H O O L Spring 2014

Foreign Language News: Spring 2014

Foreign Language

Faculty:

Linaya Germann :

Department Chair,

Spanish Instructor

Sharon Lorinskas:

German Instructor

Sarah McQuarrie:

French Instructor

Jane Rendón:

Spanish Instructor

Maria Taylor:

Spanish Instructor

Arnold Taylor:

Spanish Instructor

Inside this issue:

French News and Ger-man Scholar Bowl Win!

1

Foreign Language MIXER activity and Proficiency Testing

2

Healthy Mind, Healthy Body

3

¡Exprésate! 3

Multicultural Awareness and National Spanish Exam results

4

Mrs. Taylor’s classes 5

Preterite and Imperfect activity and SIUC Spanish Division B Scholar Bowl

6-7

By Sharon Lorinskas

By Sarah McQuarrie

FHS is a national academic society that is organized by the American Association of Teachers of French. To be inducted into FHS, students must be in at least their third semes-ter of French, must have earned an A in the past three consecutive semes-ters of French, and have a general grade point average of 3.5 or higher. FHS members can be elected as offi-cers to French Club and lead French Club members in club activities. They also serve as role models to beginning French learners. The induction took place in the CCHS

cafeteria on May 2nd. The 2014 inductees include:

Eric Dollinger

Shruti Kumar

Chanchali Agrawal

Zoe Dodge-Rice

Emily Fink

Division B Team:

right

Madison Mueller,

Maziar Sayeh,

Ryan Bushur,

James Zetterman,

Megan

McClatchey, and

Josh Murray

Ever heard of “Six Minute

Dating”? This was the con-

cept used for this year’s

Spring Foreign Language

Articulation Meeting. A

total of ten area foreign lan-

guage teachers were able to

participate in a timed

“Mixer” activity in which

teachers began paired with

one partner. Every 3 min-

utes, upon hearing a sig-

naled chime, teachers ro-

tated one seat to the left in

order to talk to the next

partner. This sequence was

repeated until the entire

group had a chance to talk

one on one with each per-

son twice. After becoming

acquainted, topics of discus-

sion included presenting

your partner with a foreign

language dilemma and ask-

ing for possible solutions as

well as setting goals for the

future to “get us out of our

comfort zone”.

—Linaya Germann

may be offered.

By:

Linaya Germann

Proficiency testing was also a

topic of discussion for this

year’s in-service articulation

meeting. Based upon results

from this year’s testing as well

as future turn out, the depart-

ment, together with admini-

stration, will determine

whether a course for native

and bilingual Spanish speakers

“Foreign Language Mixer” Activity by: Linaya Germann

Cont...

Foreign Language Proficiency Testing

were mailed to incoming Fresh-

men to announce testing dates.

Targeted students included those

who are native speakers who re-

quested Foreign Language

(Spanish) or who have completed

the Dual Language Program of-

fered through District 95.

The purpose of testing students in

the Spring is to facilitate their

transition into high school and

reduce the number of schedule

changes in the Fall.

The turn out for this year’s testing

so far has been twelve students,

three French and nine Spanish ,

with a few who have requested to

also test out of the second level

course.

In the past, students with lan-

guage background or experience

have had the opportunity to profi-

ciency test out of beginning level

Foreign Language courses to avoid

repetition in lower levels. This

testing has typically been done in

the Fall, at the start of the school

year. This Spring, however, to

avoid last minute testing after

school begins in the Fall, letters

Foreign Language

Proficiency

Testing :

New timetable for

Fall 2014

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Foreign Language News: Spring 2014

Articulation Day:

Foreign Languge Mixer

April 17th, 2014

Exito: Success

By: Jane Rendón

Spanish I students in Mrs. Rendón's classes have learned how to talk about their daily routines using reflexive verbs. We have discussed how to stay fit and healthy, making healthy choices and giving advice on how to stay fit. Students have enjoyed vocabulary games like

lotería (bingo) and Papa cali-

ente. Interview activities have helped students sharpen their speaking skills. “Speed dating”

is always a fun interview activ-ity that allows students to be-come better acquainted while practicing Spanish communi-cation skills.

Students are also learning about the culture and geogra-phy of Argentina. This unique South American country is coming to life through infor-mation searches, games, map activities and videos. From beautiful Iguazu Falls to the

cowboy culture of the Pampas, from the Swiss-like winter sports haven of San Carlos de Bariloche to the Tango Festival of Buenos Aires, we all agree: We would love to take a trip to Argentina!

—Jane Rendón

¡Cuerpo sano, mente sana! (Healthy Body, Healthy Mind)

¡Exprésate! (Express yourself!) Mrs. Rendón’s end of the year projects:

Choose an authentic recipe to prepare and create a power point demonstrating the process, from the purchase of ingredients to final product; 3) Create a chil-dren’s book complete with illustra-tions; 4) An informative presenta-tion on the works of a famous architect or artist, including exam-ples of their work; 5) Make an authentic craft and present the finished project to the class along

with an informative presentation about the history of the craft; 6) Produce and perform (live, for the class) a skit demonstrating a the-matic unit of the textbook. Stu-dents are excited about the possi-bilities and are creatively brain-storming ideas!

By: Jane Rendón

Mrs. Rendón’s Spanish II stu-dents are in the process of choos-ing their end of year projects. Students can choose from a vari-ety of activities designed to pull together the various elements learned throughout the year into one presentation. Students can pick from several options, accord-ing to their interests. Options include: 1) Produce a music video explaining a grammar concept; 2)

“Students are excited about

the possibilities and are

creatively brainstorming

ideas!”

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Volume 1, Issue 1

Mr. Arnold Taylor has earned

two additional credentials this

year. His license now includes

ESL and Bilingual Education. He

is a believer in lifelong learning.

He spends Summers traveling

abroad or studying in order to

better reach students and share

ideas. His philosophy is that

“continuous improvement is the

key to better education and it

starts by setting high standards for

your students and yourself and

being a good example by living

your philosophy and embracing

continuous improvement and

accountability in education”

Mr. Taylor is an advocate this year for Illinois schools to offer the Seal of Biliteracy on the tran-scripts of students after complet-ing the requirements. “Illinois schools have now been approved (beginning for the class of 2015) for this designation and we should get our students recognized for their well-deserved efforts by affix-

ing the seal of biliteracy to their high school transcripts in order to distinguish them from their peers”, he says.

Mr. Taylor arranged two Foreign Language teacher workshops held at CCHS where area FL teachers were able to receive updates from local experts in order to enhance their classroom. He expects fu-ture workshops will be held on our campus. He has been invited by the College Board to present at the national AP conference in

He is also happy to report that 27% of his students were honored from the AATSP for their achieve-ment on the National Spanish Exam.

By: Arnold Taylor

By: Arnold Taylor

AATSP: American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese

Cont...

ers, it is proposed as House Bill HB5154 as noted in the Illinois General Assembly.

Two of Mr. Taylor’s outstanding Honors Spanish III junior stu-dents (Natalie Nickrent and Rus-sell Leonard) competed in the SIU Foreign Language Day scholar bowl and took home the first place trophy again this year. This team was comprised primar-

ily of Spanish AP IV seniors and these two exceptional students made important contributions at the match held at SIUC.

By: Arnold Taylor

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania this summer.

Another project Mr. Taylor took on (along with the International Club) was to initiate offering a Multicultural Awareness specialty license plate to be offered in Illi-nois. In collaboration with the CCHS International Club stu-dents (led by president Malika Smith), Rep. Mike Bost, and oth-

Multicultural

Awareness

Specialty

License plate…

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Foreign Language News: Spring 2014

By: Arnold Taylor

Students took the National

Spanish Exams during the first

week of April.

Mrs. Taylor’s Classes

In this classroom, Mrs. Taylor teaches Spanish II, Spanish IV Honors, and Spanish IV AP. This

has been a special year as we have had an MAT student teacher who has given the students

exposure to a peninsular pronunciation in contrast to Mrs. Taylor’s South American speech.

The collaboration has given our student a unique experience as they had two styles of teach-

ing that became one and Direct and Communicative techniques were employed to help our

students retain content.

Mrs. Taylor and Mr. Thompson (SIUC) recognize that meeting the group and individuals needs is a key component in

student success within the classroom as well as in the community. For this reason, instruction is often modified to

provide material that is relevant to all students. These images illustrate differentiate material being used by the heritage

speakers in Spanish II. As their language needs are different, they spend some of the class time working on learning

and implementing the orthographic rules there other students would be working on communicative activities. They

are collaborating to complete this activity which is intended to help them develop successful code switching skills and

use their Spanish within professional settings.

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CCHS

Learning takes place through difference sources. In this instance, the students are guided to

make connections between lessons of Imperfect and Preterite with a Spanish language Cinder-

ella film that makes frequent use of these two concepts. The familiar storyline of the fairytale is

being used here to reinforce the concept and to show relevance of language topics in their com-

mon usage.

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Foreign Language Day– Spanish IV

Foreign Language Day at SIUC is special day when our stu-

dents showcase their knowledge by competing in Spanish

Scholar Bowl.

Students also participate in Salsa lessons, chats with Language

majors from SIU, receive information about travel abroad,

write their name in Chinese and many other fun activities.

Team B is compose of Spanish III and IV stu-

dents who proudly brought the Firs Place Tro-

phy Home.

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