Washington Township, located in Indianapolis, IN. is home to approximately 11,300 students.
Our blog will dedicate itself to showcasing the World Language programs in our three middle schools - Eastwood, Northview, Westlane, and North Central High School. It is certainly worth mentioning that our three middle schools each offer three years of study in Chinese, French and Spanish; with 80% of each school's population enrolled in a World Language!
North Central High School provides its 3,500 (65% of the school's population is enrolled in a World Language course) students the opportunity to study Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Latin and/or Spanish - yes, seven World Languages; for a four or five year sequence -with the option to culminate these years of study with Advanced Placement exams, International Baccalaureate exams or ACP dual credit.
Some 35 World Language teachers have author rights to this blog so there are sure to be some great stories, lots of amazing ideas, and some inspiring pictures! We invite you to join us on our journey to "Spread The Word!"
As the chair of this amazing department I get to see a lot of cool stuff! So, I will end my post today with some pics I took while walking around the halls of North Central the other day! Enjoy!
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On Sat., Mar. 9 the Concurso Académico (State Spanish Contest) Team competed at Franklin Community High School and represented Eastwood very well. The team took 2nd place Middle School overall in the state and students placed in every category that was entered. Here are the results:
ReplyDeleteVocabulary: Ella Whiteman, 4th place and Riley Herman, 5th place
Time and Numbers: Alek Shabaz, 1st place, Adam Hilt, 2nd place, and Amaya Rangel, 5th place
Culture: Skylar Hinton, 2nd place, Hettie Egan, 4th place, and Adam Hilt, 5th place
Dance Team: Skylar Hinton, Gemi Beard, Raine Shults, Meghan Brown, Grace Nelson, 2nd place
Toro Trivia Team: Kaylin Johnson, Jasmine Love, Charlie Devine, Cooper Biggs, Hettie Egan, 1st place
Skit Team: Raine Shults, Meghan Brown, Skylar Wilson, Sophia Caldwell, Charlie Devine, and Anna Tiplick, 2nd place
Scrambled Sentences: Nijah Ford, 3rd place and Zahria Vaughn, 4th place
Non-native Recitation: Sam Downton, 3rd place
Grammar: Nijah Fod, 2nd place
Vocal Music (individual): Sam Downton, 3rd place
Vocal Music (Group): Grace Nelson and Jessica Sutton, 2nd place
Non-stop Conversation: Mason Schafer and Sam Downton, 2nd place
Piñatas: Amaya Rangel, 3rd place and Ciara Haskins, 5th place
Posters: Kathryn Petersen, 2nd place, Jasmine Love, 3rd place, and Linda Bledsoe, 5th place
Congratulations to all of these students for their hard work at Concurso!