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=Middle School World Language Advocacy Page=
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Use this space to share ideas for events, activities, and resources you have developed to showcase your middle school World Language program. Please feel free to include a description, upload documents, photos, etc. =HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH= The Cultures of Ecuador Isabel Machado (Folly Quarter MS)

The following article, was posted on the Embassy of Ecuador Website. It highlights the participation of the entire Folly Quarter MS community in this World Language /Hispanic Heritage Month event. The article points out the research based presentations about topics which included the economy, the culture and biodiversity of Ecuador.
 * [[image:Picture_5.png caption="Each year FQMS, with the leadership of Isabel Machado, adopts a Spanish speaking country!"]] ||
 * Each year FQMS, with the leadership of Isabel Machado, adopts a Spanish speaking country! ||

National French Week

 * 1. Bonjour stickers** (Susan Mako, Mount View Middle)

For one day of National French Week, I have my French students become "Bonjour" leaders. They wear a sticker which says "Say 'Bonjour' to Me." Any student in the school who says "Bonjour" to a French student wearing this sticker is then rewarded with his/her own sticker which says "Bonjour."

I print these out on Avery address labels and hand them out to my French students ahead of time to color/decorate. French students are instructed to only give one sticker per student. It doesn't work perfectly, but it's helpful.

Bonjour stickers

Say bonjour

--Just a side note - I had "Bonjour Day" today, and I found it really effective to have the 7th graders wear the "Say Bonjour" stickers and "seek out" mostly 6th graders - I heard "Bonjour" ALL over the school today - It was awesome! I also had my 7th graders bring me back their empty sticker page with the names of each 6th grader they gave a Bonjour sticker to, to be entered into a drawing for a small prize. - //Kristen Reier, Lime Kiln MIddle


 * 2.**// **Morning Announcements** (Kristen Reier, Lime Kiln Middle)

I have the morning TV crew use French music and backgrounds for their "broadcasts" during French Week, and I have a French Fact of the Day and Trivia Question as well, any student can answer, and I just use different colored slips of paper for each grade and a "Drop off" box on a desk outside my room. At the end of the week, I choose two students' names from each grade to receive French prizes.

S __**2. Cherchez les étoiles:**__ Jen Goldszmidt, Mayfield Woods Middle School

This activity is specifically to encourage 6th grade students to celebrate learning, and consider signing up to take, French.


 * Have your 7th or 8th grade students create cardboard/folder thickness stars – as large as you can make them (the size of the folder usually work


 * Make enough stars for each of the cafeteria tables your 6th grade students take up.


 * On each star, have your 8th grade students write several sentences – BUT NOT THE NAME – describing a famous person that the students would recognize. Limit your stars to 10 people – 5 celebrities and 5 staff members the 6th graders will know. Use TONS of cognates.
 * 1) Example: Je suis chanteuse. J’adore la musique et la télévision. Je suis très célèbre. J’ai 17 ans. Je suis brune, mais quand je travaille pour Disney, je suis blonde. Je chante « Party in the USA. » Qui suis-je?
 * 2) Example: Je suis la directrice de Mayfield Woods Middle School. Je suis blonde. Je suis artiste. Est-ce que je suis grande? Non. Est-ce que je suis sympathique? Euh, ça dépend… Qui suis-je?


 * Number each of the stars, and make duplicates so that there are enough for each table to see the stars during one lunch period.


 * Have your 8th grade students join the 6th graders at lunch so they can help them understand some of the words (anything that’s not a cognate, for example), but not to give them any answers.


 * Have slips of paper with a space for the number of the star, the student’s guess as to who it is, and the student’s name and lots of pencils available at each table.


 * Collect all the slips. You may want to use a colorful box – decorated in blue, white and red…


 * Take only the correct guesses out for each star, and do a drawing for each of the 10 stars.


 * Announce the 10 6th grade winners and give out prizes!


 * I execute this activity over a two-day period during National French Language Week, but it takes a few days of prep work with 8th graders and a willing administration.

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In-School Advocacy Events
 * 1.** **8th grade Video** (Kristen Reier, Lime Kiln Middle)

From September to January, I have my 8th grade students create a video to show the 6th graders in January, when they're choosing their language class for 7th grade. The 8th graders love being the "ambassadors" for their language and really take the video and run with it. I give them some guidelines as to what specific information they need to include, and the rest is up to them - we edit as a class and then ask the 6th grade teachers when a good time is to show it!

The 6th graders really look up to the 8th graders and the message is twice as impactful coming from older students, rather than a teacher!

Will upload video when complete!


 * 2. Inter-related sessions that invite all students in the school** (Claudia Dugan, CMS)

“In an effort to support school-wide wellness and to provide students with opportunities to reinforce and further knowledge of interrelated disciplines… the RA team or the P.E. / Health/ Music/ Spanish contents will offer an inter-related session of Zumba on… at… etc. etc.”
 * ACTIVITY: ** Inter-related sessions that invite ALL students in the school and thus allow them to get those whiskers wet with a little taste of the many fun things we do in our classes: Example: P.E. / Health/ Music/ Latin Culture Zumba session

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=Advocacy Events in the Community=


 * Connecting to Families and the Community using announcements:** Isabel Machado (FQMS) and Claudia Dugan (CMS)

Advocacy strategy: Connecting families to Community Events or partnerships that highlight our content or programs using websites, wikis, e-mail or other announcements.