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Gracias, merci, danke— they all say 'thanks'
ave you ever thought of taking a foreign lan stories written in Spanish.
H guage and chickened out because you thought The Spanish Club consists of any member wish
it would be too hard? Well, some students feel that a ing to participate that has a Spanish class. They
foreign language is quite easy to learn. Some peo held their Spanish dinner on December 3 in the caf
ple even think it is easier than English because eteria. For entertainment they had three male sing
there aren’t as many grammar rules to remember. ers, one of whom was foreign exchange student
This is the first year that German has been taught Jorge Lucero.
at RHS. The students learn the basic language skills French students learn a lot about French cultural
and the cultural background of German-speaking backgrounds and French history. They study gram
countries. German II will be offered during the 1980- mar, but concentrate mainly on verb tenses.
SI school year for those who have had German I Only students in French IV-V are involved in
and wish to continue. French Club. Each year the seniors in French Club
"It was interesting to learn German, but the les that graduate take a trip to Canada with French
sons went too slow, and we didn’t progress as fast teacher, Karen Hartley and one other sponsor. To
as possible,” said junior Maureen Mitchell. raise money for this year’s trip, French Club mem
The Spanish classes also learn the basic lan bers have sold ‘be a rowdy ram’ buttons, Homecom
guage skills and cultural backgrounds. In Spanish ing cookies, 1980 calenders, concessions during
IV-V they write letters to people in Spanish-speaking girls’ basketball games and wrestling meets, and
countries. They also study grammar and read short raffle tickets for a $25 dinner gift certificate.
The money made is divided between the juniors
and seniors according to which class sold what. The
money that the juniors make is saved until the fol
lowing year and added to the funds they make while
they’re seniors.
On April 15 both French IV-V and Spanish IV-V
students attended the Foreign Language Fair in Lin
coln. The French class performed two skits and
received a ’very good’ rating from the judges. The
Spanish class received a ‘superior’ rating from the
judges for their skit based on a newscast from Sat
urday Night Live.
If any of these activities interest you, maybe you
should take a foreign language course. If you do
take one now it might make it easier for you when
you take it in college, where it is required if you
don’t complete four years in high school.
Correcting tests and assignments are one of the chores of a teacher. Mrs. Hartley grades some
papers from her French III class.
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