For Spanish enrichment, the Adolescent Community visited the Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington, DC this month. We have been studying the murals and researching the themes and iconography chosen by the artist Roberto Cueva del Río. Our tour of the Institute was completely in Spanish, a fact that certainly challenged our students’ linguistic abilities. Students composed two questions in Spanish about their sections of the mural that depicts the history of Mexico from the pre-Columbian through the early twentieth century. In the next month, we will review video taken from the tour and work to translate and understand their experiences.
