高中更新-文化融合

巴黎说唱歌手、自制海鲜饭和来自台湾的信件有什么共同之处？ 这些只是高年级学生在今年的语言课上通过文化的视角探索语言的几种方式。 当学生选择在菲学习法语、西班牙语、拉丁语或普通话时，他们学到的不仅仅是语法和词汇。 “When you learn a language,” says world languages teacher Sarah Calle, “your world becomes amplified, and the way you see things changes.” “Language is about life itself,” adds world languages teacher Alina Argueta. “It’s about sharing an appreciation of culture everywhere.”

 

Conveying the scope of each language’s culture and the complex identity of its speakers around the world is an intentional aspect of 贝博体彩app’s world language curriculum. For example, when Alina asked her French 1B students to create a restaurant menu from a French-speaking culture, students weren’t just researching Canada’s famous poutine or the delicacy of French escargots. 学生们为马达加斯加、卢森堡、比利时和加勒比地区的虚构餐厅创作菜单。 学生们发现，每个国家都有其独特的烹饪传统，但明显受到法国的影响。 同样，学拉丁文的学生们了解到，罗马帝国是一个文化大熔炉，具有文化同化的诀窍。 “Most Roman citizens didn’t even speak Latin,” notes history and Latin teacher Dan Blanchard. To explore the depth of ancient Rome’s social strata, Dan asked his Latin II students to retell mythological stories from the perspective of underrepresented voices in Roman society such as women, immigrants, and refugees.

 

While basketball fans were getting ready for the NCAA’s March Madness tournament, students in Erin Overstreet’s French 2A and 2B classes participated in Manie 音乐ale. 在这次比赛中，学生们从16首歌曲中选出他们最喜欢的法语歌曲。 所有的艺术家都来自法语国家，学生们听他们的音乐，用法语分享（和辩论）观点，并选出他们最喜欢的。 参赛者来自法国和加拿大，也有马提尼克岛、多哥和塞内加尔。 “The project prompted good conversations about the role of colonialism in the spread of language,” says Erin.

 

了解一种文化的最好方法之一就是通过食物，每门语言课的学生都在学习它的美食。 大卫·奥拉诺（David Olano）要求他的西班牙语2A学生研究并准备一道来自30个不同西班牙语国家的菜肴。 每个学生都探索了一道菜的历史和文化意义，然后用他们在课堂上学过的西班牙语命令形式制作了一段烹饪视频，解释了一步一步的过程。 Students made Spanish paella, Mexican buñuelos de viento, and Brazilian vaca atolada. In the winter term, Dan’s Latin I class also created cooking videos of ancient Roman dishes based on the translation of Apicus’ 食谱. 学生们根据四门社会经济课程之一的观点设计了一份三道菜的菜单。 学生们学习了印度和中国香料是如何通过贸易进入罗马的，研究了古罗马人是如何烹饪每一道菜的，然后将食谱改编成现代厨房的。

 

Students in Qianqian Huyan’s Mandarin Chinese classes gained insight into how middle schoolers live in Taiwan when they exchanged letters with sixth graders at Ruei-Suei Elementary School. 贝博体育学生用中文写信，分享他们的家庭、爱好和最喜欢的食物和饮料。 台湾学生迅速做出了视频和手写的回应，突出了笔友之间的许多相似之处，比如对珍珠奶茶、可口可乐和电子游戏的喜爱。 In Alina’s Spanish 2B class, students explored the architecture of homes in Spanish-speaking countries like Nicaragua, the Canary Islands, and Puerto Rico. 他们在网上找到了房屋的内部照片，并用西班牙语制作了一个视频导览，突出了室内庭院、拱门和彩绘瓷砖等特征。

 

通过了解不同国家的庆祝活动，学生们也了解了不同的文化。 In Sarah Calle’s Spanish 1B class, students studied the burning of a family’s “año viejo” or monigote in Ecuador. The monigotes, old clothes filled with sawdust and topped with colorful masks, represent the old year, and they are burned in a bonfire at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve. Another tradition is to throw a letter into the fire that contains a list of all the things you hope to leave behind in the “old year.” After making a personal monigote, students wrote a letter in Spanish outlining what they want to leave behind, like worries, a bad grade, or a ski accident, and their goals for the New Year before taking their monigotes out into the snow for a ceremonial burning of their año viejo!

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