We’ve had a great start to this year in YL4! We’ve already done a lot of activities where I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the students’ creativity. We have focused a lot on speaking, and the students have written and performed a number of dialogues and plays. Last week was our class dedicated to Halloween where
This trimester in Kids Club 1, we are learning all about music from North America. We use poetry, games, media and creative activities inspired by music to learn about the people and places that helped create American music styles. We spent our first week exploring all the different ways music can make us feel by
YL3 has jumped right into reading and writing this month! We started by creating some fantastic “recipes” to get to know each other a little better. We have read two stories together in class, and were especially enthralled by the very mysterious “Cave of the Lost”. For Halloween, everyone is bringing in a spooky story
Saturday‘s Young Learners 1 have kicked off the school year with energy and excitement! We are having fun getting to know each other by singing songs, reading books, and playing games that make us laugh. We have started the year by reviewing numbers and learning about routines. We read the book It Is School Time and talked
Teens Club has begun with introductory activities and by personalizing a special journal that they will use throughout the year. Next week we embark on an interactive mapping project that will track famous explorers of the Americas around the globe. A Thanksgiving play presented to other classes, creepy classic Halloween stories, and winter STEM challenges are yet
Designed for advanced English speakers, this course explores how Latinos—the largest minority group in the United States—are redefining what it means to be American in the 21st century. What is the difference between the terms “Hispanic,” “Latino/a,” Latin@ and “Latinx”? How is President Trump’s proposal for a wall along the US-Mexico border connected to 1950s Hollywood
Part of the American Dream is owning or building one’s own home, yet the architecture of houses in the United States is quite diverse. From the tenements of urban immigrants to the mansions of the Industrial Revolution, from suburban sprawl to the tiny house movement, this course will examine American domestic architecture and the basic concept of
This 10 week, 10 hour course is designed for learners with at least an upper-intermediate level of English. Over the course of the trimester the class will read in its entirety F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece The Great Gatsby, meeting once every two weeks to discuss the latest installment. In-class disucssions and activities will be supported
This trimester we return to the concept of Prosperity, and examine its relation to the American West, both as a place as well as an idea. We will consider works (poetry, short-stories, essays, films, music) that have defined the West as a fantasy and a reality for generations of Americans. This course will expand and strengthen
This course is designed for advanced- and proficiency-level learners who are interested in improving their English language skills through the study of American literature. The theme for Fall 2017 is New York, 1945-1965. We will read short stories, novel and memoir excerpts, poems, and essays, in order to examine the ways in which these texts