Selena is remembered with film and reflections.

Mr. McVeigh's Spanish 1-2 and 3-4 classes spent some time before the break learning about Selena since the 15th anniversary of her death is coming up next week. Spanish 3-4 students are sharing their reflections about the film on their class blogs. Spanish 1-2 students will have some in-class discussion and potentially another type of blog activity after they return from spring break.

Spanish 1-2 students creating family trees and singing!

Señora Trott's Spanish 1-2 classes are creating a family tree in Spanish. They have also learned three new songs, one about family, one about food and one about conjugating verbs in Spanish.

ASL students create game cards

Mrs. Lenhof's students are using their understanding of ASL linguistics to create game cards with the parameters for the vocabulary from Units 3 - 14. Students will then choose a gameboard and create challenging instructions to play their game within their specific unit of study. After some testing and revisions, student groups will rotate through the various games as a review of past vocabulary and reinforcement of interpersonal and interpretive communications in ASL.

French students perform for pre-school children!

Mrs. Leidhof'f's students of first year French are practicing the play Le Chaperon Rouge (in full costume) for the preschool children at SRHS. Student will be perrorming the 7th and 8th of April.
Students of second year French are doing a representation of the fairy tale Moitie-de-poulet.

Spanish 5-6 collaborates on-line with students in Ohio!

Ms. Murrell's Spanish 5-6 class just finished collaborating with students in Cincinnati, OH on a Spanish Music research project. See a sample at this link
They are also busily working on their big Trabajo project. Students just completed their essays. They will begin research over spring break and start their résumé's the week when they return.
Spanish 7-8 and AP just completed presenting on Human Rights issues in the Spanish Speaking world. Some of the topics that students researched were: Argentina and the Dirty War, Dictatorships in Chile, Spain and the Dominican Republic.

Spanish 3-4 practice Spanish with short skits

Mr. Lawhead's Spanish 3-4 class took the theme of "Los Traviesos" (the "bratty ones") and acted out a funny family conflict.

Madame Leidhoff's French classes study Napoleon!

Mrs. Leidhoff's students of Advanced French are studying Napoleon. Using a text from Le Petit Robert, students self-directed in French the creation of a timeline as long as the classroom! Students will begin researching a topic of their choice: art, code civile, arc de triomphe, etc. of the Napoleonic Era and present it to the class.

Studying culture and writing to pen pals

Dr. Jacobson's Spanish students are deeply engaged in studying Spanish-language culture.  They can be found researching such famous names as:  Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Benito Juárez and César Chávez.  Other names include famous poets and dancers.  Other students are celebrating literature in Spanish by reading and presenting a classic fairy tale in Spanish.

All students continue exchanging letters with their pen pals at Mira Mesa High School.

TPR/S Practice

Mr. Lawhead's students teach original stories to each other orally using TPR/S methods.  The focus at this time is telling a story in the past and correctly using both the Imperfect and Preterit tenses.

World Languages Teachers Attend Conference

Mr. McVeigh, Mrs. Leidhoff, Mrs. Trott and Ms. Murrell attended the CA Language Teachers Association (CLTA) conference this past weekend at the Town & Country Conference Center.  Many new ideas, techniques and teaching materials were shared with the department on Tuesday.  Ms. Murrell was also a presenter at the conference.  She shared ideas on lesson planning with Google Maps.

French classes using TV as a theme

Mrs. Leidhoff's students of first year French are doing celebrity interviews based on talk shows such as Tyra, Oprah, Jay and Dr. Phillip.  Celebrities answer 6-7 questions presented by the host.

Students of second year French are creating commercials as one might see on TV.  They are presenting with props and will show mastery of reflexive pronouns in this activity.

Spanish 1-2 students prepare "Talk Show"

Mrs. Trott's Spanish 1-2 classes are preparing a "Talk Show" project to be performed in class next week. Each group has a "host" and three guests. The guests might be a famous person, celebrity or another student. The host will ask questions and the guests respond.

ASL students researching and writing

Mrs. Smith's ASL 4 and ASL 6 are preparing for their next formal presentations. They have been researching different Developments Disabilities, Mental Illnesses and The Americans with Disabilities Act. They will be presenting mastery of using GLOSS, a written system of ASL, by script writing and illustrating their increased fluency levels relating to ASL syntax and grammatical structure.

Students of Japanese Excel!

On Saturday, February 27th, 42 students from the Scripps Ranch High School Japanese Program took part in the annual Japanese Cultural and Academic Proficiency (J-CAP) competition. Wearing their custom SRHS quiz bowl t-shirts (courtesy of Justine Shin and Michael Choung), students excelled in all aspects of the competition: the Jeopardy-style quiz bowl, the “create your own manga” exercise, and the cultural workshop on sumie Japanese art. At the end of the day, students took home 1st and 3rd place in the 2nd year group and 2nd place in the 4th year group, boasting the highest number of top finishing teams among all schools. Yoku dekimashita! Go Falcons! Congratulations Mr. Blackwelder!

Spanish 5-6 students take on-line "Color Career Counselor" quiz

Mr. Lawhead's Spanish 5-6 will take an on-line survey that evaluates their choice of colors to make recommendations about career possibities.  Students will print out the results and bring them to school on Monday.  They will share the recommendations with a partner and discuss whether they agree or disagree with the results and how they compare with each other.  This will be the information-gathering start of a compare and contrast essay that is part of their Mock-Job Interview project.  All of the above, of course, will be done entirely in Spanish.

"Color Career Counselor" link

Spanish 3-4 is blogging and describing the "Perfect Fiesta"

Mr. McVeigh's 3-4 students will be turning in a mini-project that describes their ideal fiesta. They're also blogging to describe a "friend" when he or she was younger (imperfect vs. preterit practice).

Spanish 1-2 students have also completed the second Benchmark and are working on the SRHS brochure project that Mrs. Trott shared.

French 5-6 students presenting plays to other students!

Mrs. Frederickson's French 5-6 students are rehearsing plays to present to Mme Leidhoff's French 3-4 class. They'll be doing Snow White and two student-created skits, "Last Room in the Hotel" and "Family Feud."

Students enjoy speaker in ASL 1-2

Mrs. Lenhof's ASL 1-2 classes enjoyed a presentation by Gigi Howland of Dawn Sign Press, a company that publishes learning materials and textbooks American Sign Language and Deaf Culture in high schools and colleges throught the United States. 

Next week, students will be practicing their skills during a restaurant project.