NOMBRE:
Cecilia Cortés
ESCUELA:
Hammarskjold Middle School
CLASE:
Spanish II
TELÉFONO DE ESCUELA:
732-613-4583
Can you name the country in the very south of South America? The one
closest to the South Pole?I hope you said Argentina!There,
in a region called the Patagonia, with the Andes mountain range and Chile to
the west and the Atlantic to the east, is where I was born and lived until
I moved here, 10 years ago!
I've always wanted to be a teacher. I even had my own chalkboard as a
little girl! My fascination with world languages started early on. My mom is
a teacher of English and I found it so intriguing that she could speak ina
whole different way. I would ask her constantly how to say things and I loved
saying "Fasten your seatbelt"or "Water, please".I later attended bilingual
school K-12 so I would study Spanish in the morning and move onto English in
the afternoon. In secondary school I added French, which led me
to make constant language comparisons-- and get tongue-tied trying to find
the right word among three possible ones! I continued pursuing my two
passions--languages and education-- in college graduating as an ESL
teacher in 1998. I then taught third and fifth grade at a bilingual school,
spending my summers exploring other countries and cultures. I was lucky
enough to travel around Europe twice and in 2000 I took a few classes at
Reading University in England. It was two years after I graduated from
college that I applied to a teacher exchange program, was selected and came
to New Jersey to teach Spanish.What a thrill --and a challenge-- it was to
teach my native tongue and share my culture with such a diverse community. I
loved the experience so much that I decided to stay and I now call East
Brunswick my second home. And it was also here that I met my husband whom I
married last December. My new name is Mrs. Cortes-Fabrizio but you will find
Fabrizio on your schedule. I have been called Miss Cortes for nine years so
it will take some time to get used to my new name. Feel free to use either!
I am really looking forward to working with and getting to know you.
It is my sincere hope that I can help you become curious about the language,
how it works and what you are able to do. Above all, I would like for you to
love studying a foreign language as much as I do.
We are going to have a great year!
Students will make meaningful use of language for real communicative
purposes.
They will experience authentic language in use.
They will be given the opportunity to acquire and to interact in the
language as it is spoken and written in the target culture.
Students will expand their ability to communicate in basic survival
situations. The emphasis will be on realistic interpersonal language use.
Finally, they will compare and contrast the target language and culture with
their own thus further developing insights into the natura of language and
culture.
