Announcements

Did you read the alchemist by Paolo Coelho last year?! If you have an extra copy you don’t want, please drop it off in room 167. Thanks! The Franklin County Board of Elections is looking for students 17 and older to work the polls on November 5th. They are...

Celia Cruz was a Cuban-American singer.  She is known as the Queen of Salsa music. She won 3 Grammys and 4 Latin Grammys.  The Celia Cruz Foundation was created to help Latino students learn about music. Did you read the alchemist by Paolo Coelho last year?! If you...

With 329 million native speakers, Spanish ranks as the world’s No. 2 language in terms of how many people speak it as their first language. It is slightly ahead of English (328 million) but behind Chinese (1.2 billion). Did you read the alchemist by Paolo Coelho last...

Oscar Hijuelos was an American novelist, the son of Cuban immigrants, whose writing chronicles the pre-Castro Cuban immigrant experience in the United States, particularly in New York City.  In 1990, he was the first Hispanic writer to win a Pulitzer Prize for his...

Spanish is the second most spoken language in the United States.  There are approximately 254 million people who speak English and approximately 43 million people who speak Spanish. Did you read the alchemist by Paolo Coelho last year?! If you have an extra copy you...

Dolores Huerta is a living civil rights icon. She has spent most of her life as a political activist fighting for better working conditions for farmworkers, and she is a firm believer in the power of political organizing to effect change.  She co-founded the United...

September 18th is Chile’s Independence Day.  This public holiday marks the date when the Chilean people declared independence from Spain in 1810.  It is Chile’s National Day and along with Christmas, this period is the most important holiday time in Chile. Did...

Hispanic Heritage Week was started by President Lyndon Johnson in 1968. It was then later expanded to a whole month under President Ronald Reagan in 1988.  National Hispanic Heritage Month is from September 15th to October 15th.  During this month, we pay tribute to...

September 16th is Mexican Independence Day, which celebrates Mexico’s declaration of independence from Spain in 1810.  This day is filled with national pride, colorful parades, mariachi concerts, and food.  People of Mexican heritage all over the world commemorate...