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| Title | News Article: Field Trip to Spanish-Speaking Area Near School |
| Body | From http://www.montclairtimes.com/page.php?page=14673 Spanish trip with a twist Wednesday, April 25, 2007 By RUTH KUNSTADTER Monica Lavosky’s Spanish Club students from Montclair High School just got back from a Spanish trip. In the town they visited, they met and conversed with native speakers in Spanish, shopped in local stores, and tasted local foods. Lavosky had assigned a scavenger hunt that had the teenagers scouring a Latin American market for ingredients to make a dinner recipe, asking for directions in Spanish from a local store owner, and capturing key information from Spanish-language newspapers, postcards, billboards and store signs. To complete the scavenger hunt, they had to find a music store and learn the name of the number one song (“La Llave de Mi Corazón”) and the artist who sings it (Juan Luis Guerra). They topped off the day with a meal featuring yucca and other novelties that many of the students had never even seen, much less tasted. All in all, it was a complete cultural and linguistic immersion for the Montclair students. The catch? They never left New Jersey. Read the entire article at http://www.montclairtimes.com/page.php?page=14673 . |
| Source | The Montclair Times, New Jersey |
| Inputdate | 2007-05-27 06:53:29 |
| Lastmodifieddate | 2007-05-27 06:53:29 |
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| Publishdate | 2007-05-28 00:00:00 |
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