Bilingual trailblazers head to high school – Edwards Elementary School’s first dual-language class prepares for high school – Colorado From: vaildaily.com
Tagged: bilingual, Colorado, dual-language, studentPosted on: May 12th, 2008
It’s striking to hear a room full of eighth graders talk about the Louisiana Purchase and the War of 1812 in fluent, unbroken Spanish.
The non-bilingual ear could pick out names, like Lewis and Clark, and simple Spanish phrases, but the rest would be a mystery. Not a word of English is spoken in this lesson, except for maybe a whispered joke between a couple students. It’s the sort of conversation you’d expect to hear in a college level Spanish-history course.
Most of these students in the Berry Creek Middle School dual-language class have been in the same class together since second grade — and many have been together since kindergarten. “*
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