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¡Os he echado de menos! Mientras Bridget estaba
escribiendo el Bole, yo estaba estudiando para mi
segundo maestría (M.A.) en Middlebury College en
Vermont y Madrid. Ha sido una experiencia fenomenal,
y hay que admitir que la experiencia me ha cambiado.
Este otoño seré Teaching Fellow y candidato doctoral
en Lenguas Románicas (francés, castellano y portugués)
en la Universidad de Oregón en Eugene, pero seguiré en
mi papel de secretario, redactor del Bolectrónico, y
voy a asistir a todos los eventos del capítulo.
Espero que me contactéis con información útil para
los
demás socios. Cuando hay exposiciones o películas
o
conferencias o puestos o lo que sea, escribídme y lo
compartiré con el capítulo.
Estoy seguro de que me juntéis cuando doy las gracias
a Bridget para un trabajo bien hecho.
Para los que la conocen, he ido con Deby Holmberg al
Escorial en España. Ella está de intercambio en
un
colegio en Murcia donde había estado Suzanne Louden
durante el cuatrimestre de otoño. Aunque sea difícil
a veces, ella sí está aprovechándose de la
experiencia, tanto como sus dos hijos menores.
I. SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: CHAPTER FILM
EVENT - SATURDAY, JUNE 16. 1:45PM Harvard Exit
Theatre
As is the custom, the Juan de Fuca Chapter is having
an end-of-the-year film event during the Seattle Film
Festival. This year, we've chosen the film "Caballos
salvajes" from Argentina. It's playing Saturday, June
16,at 1:45 at the Harvard Exit Theatre in Seattle. If
you would like to attend, please contact Eduardo Tobar
to reserve your spot! mailto:etobar@ospi.wednet.edu
Look for more information to come - in particular,
we'd like to plan a place to meet for lunch before the
film. Hope to see you there!
http://www.seattlefilm.com/
Wild Horses
(Caballos salvajes) Argentina, 1995
This Argentinean tragicomedy successfully mixes and
matches the best bits of heist, road and buddy genres.
When despondent Jos (Hector Alterio)enters a bank,
threatening to commit suicide if his misplaced funds
arent located, his plans go terribly awry. Instead hes
mistaken for a robber,his bag filled with American
dollars, his gun pointed at the back of the head of
well-intentioned financier Pedro (Leonardo
Sba-raglia)a
surprisingly willing hostage, as it happens. We follow
the pairs escapades partly through the lens of an
aspiring correspondent, who serves as chorus and
clownish reminder of how the media can be as much
responsible for making the news as reporting it. Jos
and Pedro, joined by the waifish Ana(Cecilia Dopazo),
unwittingly become folk heroes nicknamed The
Untameables. Buoyed by a fatalistic sense of freedom
and kindred spirits that offer help along the way,
they form an improvised family, with Jos trying to
pass on his communist sensibilities and love of
culture to Pedro, a yuppie-by-default. Director and
co-writer Marcelo Pieyro complements his strong cast
with glorious scenery and his script with quick-silver
editing and a whirlwind music score. Wild Horses won
the audience award at the 1997 Lledia Latin America
Film Festival. Small wonder. Awards: Best Sound,
Havana Film Festival; Audience Award, Lleida Latin
American Film Festival.
Also, there are other films in Spanish and Portuguese
during the film festival - check out the website at:
http://www.seattlefilm.com/ Amores Perros is playing
at the Broadway market in Seattle and at the Grand in
Tacoma - http://www.grandcinema.com
II. BOLE Featured Film Festival Film that is NOT the
one the chapter is going to see:
Coronation [from Chile]
(Coronación)
Directed by Silvio Caiozzi
6/3/2001 at 13:45 - Egyptian Theatre
6/1/2001 at 21:30 - Pacific Place Cinemas
A potent tale of the decadence of the local Chilean
aristocracy is told in Silvio Caiozzi’s adaptation of
José Donoso’s 1958 first novel Coronation. Winner of
the William Faulkner prize in 1963, Donoso is part of
the "boom" of Latin American fiction that includes
such writers as Carlos Fuentes and Gabriel García
Márquez. Recipient of Chile’s National Prize for
Literature in 1990 and considered one of Latin
America’s finest living authors, Donoso has twice
previously collaborated with director Caiozzi.
Coronation centers on Don Andres, the sad, bookish
heir of the wealthy Avalos family who feels that his
58 years of life has been wasted in philosophical
speculation. When he contracts with 17-year-old
peasant girl Estela to care for his 97-year-old
grandmother, Don Andres’ contemplative life begins to
disintegrate. His grandmother suffers from advanced
senility, but nonetheless manages to delight and shock
us with her memories and observations of her son’s
growing obsession with Estela. At the same time, Don
Andres discreetly observes the growing attraction
between Estela and handsome, scheming Mario. In a sort
of caricature of the repressed older man—hovering
between human and grotesque extremes—Don Andres risks
all for a chance at love, driven by his renewed sense
of passion. The movie moves between the anguish of the
upper class and the despair of the lower class. Eddie
Cockrell of Variety writes that Coronation, "has a
keen sense of rhythm and atmosphere which invigorates
the familiar story of loneliness and obsession."
REPEAT ITEMS:
I. "GOING OUT OF BUSINESS" SALE
Susan Wright-Perez of Mountain View High School in
Vancouver, WA, is retiring this June after 31 years of
teaching Spanish. Susan has been an avid collectorof
handicrafts from her travels in Latin America and
Spain. She has also collected many posters, books,
music and created games, bulletin boards, and other
activities. Susan is going to sell off her large
collection of these items in a "going out of business"
sale. This is an excellent opportunity for Spanish
teachers to pick up realia for their classrooms at a
very low cost.
Date: Saturday, June 16
Time: 11:00 AM and 1:00 PM
Place: Mountain View High School, 1500 SE Blairmont
Drive, Vancouver, WA (directions below)
Susan will be donating a share of her income from the
sale to the foreign language department at Mountain
View to support her departmental colleagues in
professional growth through attendance at conventions
and workshops.
For further information you may contact Susan by
e-mail at swrightp@egreen.wednet.edu or by phone at
her home in the evenings or on weekends at (360)
256-2528.
Directions to Mountain View High School: From I-205
take the Mill Plain Blvd exit eastbound. Continue
east on Mill Plain to 136th Avenue. Turn
right on 136th. Continue on 136th to the first stop
sign (McGillvray Blvd.) Turn left on McGillvray.
Continue on McGillvray to the first stop sign
(Blairmont Dr.) Turn left on Blairmont for two
blocks. The school will be on your left. Turn into
the parking lot next to the tennis court and look for
the signs directing you to the sale.
VII. Intensive Summer Institute for Secondary
Spanish Teachers
ENHANCING PROFICIENCY IN THE SPANISH CLASSROOM, August
6-17, 2001 HELPING OUR STUDENTS TOWARDS LINGUISTIC
INDEPENDENCE: A special one-day workshop for all
teachers, August 11, 2001 Sponsored by the UW Dept.
of Romance Languages, Division of Spanish/Portuguese,
the Education Office, Embassy of Spain and UW
Educational Outreach
Pase dos semanas mejorando su espaol y su pedagoga sin
salir de Seattle!
Spend two weeks improving your language and teaching
skills without leaving Seattle!
* How can we make the best use of the Internet and
film?
* How can we keep our language skills current without
going abroad?
* How do we assess our students' language proficiency,
and adapt texts and curriculum to enhance their
learning?
* How do our classroom activities improve students'
chances on state assessments and reflect national
standards?
HELPING OUR STUDENTS TOWARDS LINGUISTIC INDEPENDENCE
Setting the Stage for Proficiency: Helping our
Students toward Linguistic Independence. Special
One-Day Workshop Institute participants attend without
charge and receive clock hours. This workshop is open
to all language teachers. You do not have to be a
participant in the institute to attend.
Special One-Day Workshop
August 11, 2001
9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Setting the Stage for Proficiency: Helping our
Students toward Linguistic Independence. This workshop
will include a discussion of the challenges involved
in creating a classroom conducive to the development
of
proficiency in each of our students. The presentation
will focus on the functional needs of the novice
learner and strategies for helping that learner
practice the functions of the next
(intermediate)level.
Topics will include:
* The role of the student-centered classroom in the
development of linguistic independence
* A clear explanation of the different levels of the
ACTFL oral proficiency scale, with a variety of
concrete examples
* The most effective ways to elicit speech from our
students
* Strategies for helping novice-level students
consistently expand and practice their base of
memorized material and create with the language
* Help students to expand their length of utterances
* The role of grammar in a proficiency-based approach
to teaching and learning
* The adaptation of textbooks to a proficiency-based
approach
Facilitator: Jim Cassidy (Professor, Middlebury
College Spanish School, Vermont)
Fee: $119+$30 nonrefundable registration fee, clock
hours available.
Reg# 58007
ENHANCING PROFICIENCY IN THE SPANISH CLASSROOM
Components: The institute includes four components
and a one-day optional workshop. All components,
with the possible exception of the one on oral
proficiency assessment, will be in Spanish. The
history and culture of Spain will be emphasized.
1) Assessing Students' Oral Proficiency
* Learn about adapting the ACTFL oral proficiency
interview to your classroom needs
* Listen to and discuss a demonstration interview
* Listen to and rate prerecorded interviews
* Practice giving and rating interviews with speakers
at a variety of
levels
2) Using the Internet to Enhance Spanish Classes
* Become familiar with Internet resources to help you
develop your and your students' Spanish skills
* Discover Internet resources to help you enhance your
teaching
* Learn how to build a Web page
* Connect the Essential Academic Learning Requirements
to the teaching of foreign languages
3) Intensive Language Practice
* Address personal areas of grammatical difficulty
* Expand your knowledge of Spanish syntax and
vocabulary
* Share in group discussions on topics pertaining to
modern Spain
4) Selecting and customizing Teaching Materials.
* Learn skills to evaluate textbooks and select one
which best fits your program
* Find out how to modify activities in textbooks to
meet your own classroom needs and national standards
* Explore possibilities and appropriate uses of videos
in the classroom
* Plan activities that enhance Washington state EALRs
Institute Instructors
Jim Cassidy coordinates the Spanish program at Mt.
Angel College, Oregon and is a Professor of Spanish at
the Spanish School, Middlebury College, Vermont.
A certified Oral Proficiency Interviewer in Spanish
and English, he has conducted workshops on this
testing instrument for college and K-12 teachers.
Cassidy has taught at the high school, community
college and university level, and has worked with
immigrant populations.
Mara Gillman, lecturer in Spanish at the UW,
coordinates the third-year Spanish program. She has
over 20 years teaching experience at the elementary,
secondary and university levels, both in Mexico and
the U.S. Her specialties are Spanish as a second
language and Spanish for heritage students. Gillman's
intensive Spanish course in the first Spanish
Institute got rave reviews. Mexico is her native
country.
Ins Miranda, Pacific Lutheran University, worked in
the UW first-year Spanish program for several years,
coordinating all training activities for teaching
assistants, and currently teaches foreign language
methodology. An experienced translator, she was head
of the Office of Cultural Affairs in her native
Nicaragua. Miranda has a Ph.D. in linguistics from the
UW.
Eduardo Tobar holds a degree in English philology from
the University of Salamanca, Spain, and from the
Official School of Languages in English, French,
Portuguese and Catalan. Since 1998, he has been
Consultant to the Education Office of the Embassy of
Spain at OSPI, and has organized workshops and
presentations in Washington state.
General Information
Schedule:
Week 1* (Aug. 6-10) Mon. and Tues., 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Assessing oral proficiency
Wed. and Thurs., 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Language practice and
selecting materials
Fri., 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Discussion of oral proficiency
assessment
Week 2 (Aug. 13-17)
Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Intensive language practice,
Selecting materials, and Using the Internet
Prerequisites: Participants must have three years of
college Spanish, or equivalent oral and grammatical
proficiency in Spanish. To discuss special situations
regarding eligibility, please contact Lynn
Klausenburger, 206-685-6421 or e-mail
lhk@u.washington.edu, until July 12. After that
time, e-mail mgill@u.washington.edu.
Credit and Fees: The institute fee is $699 plus a
nonrefundable registration fee of $30. These fees also
include the one-day workshop on Aug. 11. Upon
successful completion of a final project, participants
will receive five credits of Spanish 499.
Housing Information: Housing and meal service are
available on the UW campus. For information, please
call 206-616-1031 or e-mail confhous@u.washington.edu.
prospective participants should identify themselves as
members of the Spanish institute.
Registration Deadline and Refunds: The
registration/refund deadline is July 12, 2001. There
is no refund after this deadline. Students wishing
to withdraw on or before this date are eligible for a
refund of all fees excluding the $30 registration fee.
They must send a written request to withdraw to UW
Extension Registration Services, 5001 25th Ave. NE,
Seattle, WA 98105-4190.
If either the institute or one-day workshop is
cancelled, students are eligible for a refund of all
fees.
Accommodations for Disabilities: To request disability
accommodations, contact the UW Disability Services
Office as early as possible at 206-543-6450 (voice),
206-543-6452 (TTY), 206-685-3885 (fax).
For more information or to get an application form
please contact: (206)685-6401 or
certif1@u.washington.edu.
The University of Washington provides equal
opportunity in education without regard to race,
color, creed, religion, national origin, sex,
sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability,
or status as adisabled veteran or Vietnam era veteran
in accordance with University of Washington policy and
applicable federal and state statutes and regulations.
*For the first four days of the institute, members
will be divided into two groups. Each will spend two
entire days working on oral assessment and two days on
intensive language practice and selecting materials.
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Steven Green, President, sslgrn@aol.com
Ricardo Chama, Eastern V.P., cheetah101@earthlink.net
Paloma Borreguero, NW V.P., paloma@u.washington.edu
Oriana Cadman, SW V.P., ocadman@kalama.com
Jay Adams-Feuer, Secretary, jay@alumni.middlebury.edu
Alexandra Porter, Treasurer, dporter@universityprep.org
WATSP web page: http://aatsp.20m.com